politics metaphor
The Signal fanbase is like established-left political parties; they talk a big game about keeping people safe, but are completely ignorant of some obvious problems with their own systems, and can get aggressively defensive when confronted with them
re: politics metaphor
This pondering brought to you by observing *yet another* discussion about Signal where very real problems like "being tied to phone numbers" and "social graph analysis" are being swept under the carpet by any argumentation possible