@mossfet the abstract notion of nationalism for an entity will tend to outlive its corresponding founding ideology.

Reminder that the Sparticist is available for $5 from a pro-putin collegiate debater trotskyite and you can only pay via an app.

Just to give everybody a heads-up, so you know the signs. If you or a loved one has been impacted by a trotskyite newspaper salesperson please call this number:

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We talk about "wounded nationalism", but nobody talks about "wounded internationalism" which can also be bad.

Diaspora isn't tragedy, it is the resiliency and strength of distributed and highly interconnected community.

In a place like the United States I see members of diasporadic communities cope with the perceived tragedy unhealthily. The only healthy way of dealing with it is staying connected to your people wherever they are and wherever you are. Those connections however limited are not something be be sad or ashamed of, they should be cherished.

Lots of good scholarship on this in diaspora studies, but I don't think the core lesson gets spread often enough. A strong diaspora is something to be proud of.

Yeah, soylent is people, but I'm a freegan

"Everything I disagree with online is from a Russian bot" people when they find out that all the russian bots are gay and they are homophobic.

Yeah take your shoes off as you come in, yeah just leave your shoes right next to that suspiciously foot-oriented camera rig. yep. Don't worry it is just for an AI project of mine.

There's been an AWS outage and I can't remember my kids names.

@bogpunk same general practice in US and Canada, basically. But finding a relevant thread might be harder.

@bogpunk in the US carrier devices come with locked bootloaders at minimum, with only certain phone manufacturers supporting manual appeals for unlock keys. Most don't allow unlocking it ever. This is different from "unlocked" as a generic term meaning "you can use another sim card" and way more pervasive.

If you don't have a choice to avoid carrier phones, you can try referencing a list that compares phone manufacturers by bootloader unlocking policies. They are sporadically made and may not be up to date, and your carrier may not offer or even support phones from any "unlock-friendly" manufacturers anyways.

The wiki advice is well worth heeding, but devices supporting GrapheneOS are expensive even secondhand. If you have budgetary concerns, LineageOS can support a wider range of budget-friendly used devices (provided they are bootloader unlockable).

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okay so

in the past i already talked about how i really dislike ☭ as a symbol despite being a communist and anarchist myself because i grew up in one of the states that russia/soviet russia took over and, basically did some fucked up shit to my people that i already wrote about before

and i keep seeing people who aren't pro-stalin or pro-ussr use it and i am conflicted because understand why they do it, but it also bugs me bc that's the symbol of the regime that tried to assimilate us

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