Signal literally couldn’t give away your communications if they wanted to, everyone who disagrees with the way things are going should be using it.

This is incorrect. Source: do it all the time for work.

We are still using VGA on current gen installations for the primary display on the most expensive patient monitoring system products in the world. If there’s a second display it gets displayport. 1080p is still the max resolution.

That’s what that means, yes. Worked for me though.

But how could we ban the content when the owners of the media are fascists? When all three branches of the government are dominated by people who rely on this messaging?

You want people to relax while we’re in the beginning of a fascist takeover of our country?

Right on, fair enough.

I live in the state that gave Trump his highest margin of victory, so I have seen what you describe many times.

My friend listened to punk music and played in punk bands. He was very conservative politically. I hadn’t seen him in a while and we decided to go to a show hours away and catch up. We had stopped talking politics to preserve our friendship. We were on our way back from the show, listening to Rancid, and I couldn’t stand it anymore. I was like “hey man, you love this music, but do you not hear the lyrics? How can you say the things you say?” I didn’t know he had changed.

He had been doing survey work for a mining company for years. He explained that after he got out of that job, everything became clear. He wasn’t conservative anymore, in fact he had become progressive.

He explained that when he worked with nothing but hard right conservatives, with Fox News on all day, it seeped into his brain and corrupted him.

This is an intelligent man I’m talking about. He was a victim of propaganda and was smart enough to realize it once he was away from it.

This is always on my mind:

"“We won the evangelicals. We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated.”

Trump said this at a speech in Nevada during the primary in 2016, and people cheered.

Please stop with this. Al Gore said he took the initiative in creating the Internet. As in, he used his abilities as a lawmaker to make the internet possible.

AI Gore claims he invented the Internet is a right wing op.

There isn’t even a center political party of any consequences in the US. There’s right and far right.

Pedo comment was the moment I realized what he actually was. I thought he seemed pretty cool before that. My class consciousness wasn’t fully evolved at that point though or I would have realized he had to be a piece of shit to be a billionaire.

/s is the worst thing to happen to Internet discussion, at least recently.

You must recognize that Trump will affect you personally. The US influence is vast. At the very least, some European politicians will try to emulate Trump’s success, to the detriment of everyone they represent if they are successful.

Everyone hates abortion. It is a last resort for a woman who does not want to give birth to a child. The people who claim to be pro-life, at least where I live, want to stop sexual education in schools and limit the availability of birth control. This results in more abortions.

There is nothing in the world that could shake my belief that abortion is not morally wrong, and I support any woman’s right to choose. At the same time I think abortion is terrible and should be avoided except as a last resort. These beliefs are not incompatible.

People on the right attempt to poison the discussion by painting those who choose abortion as people who use it as birth control. Like they have abortions for the fun of it. They lie about the existence of partial birth abortions. They lie that the matter removed in an abortion is a thinking, feeling human life. My wife has had an abortion as has my best friend’s wife. These were horrible, expensive, emotional experiences. They should be avoided at all cost, yet they are still morally correct.

I like dozer because it not only suggests they’re asleep, but it also suggests bulldozer, which is what the people they voted for are doing to the country and world.

Well even in the US it’s quite expensive and difficult to get an automatic weapon. But if you meant semiautomatic then yeah they’re everywhere.

Altavista was the shit when it came out. My classmates and friends were surprised at how quick I was getting answers or general information. Altavista, that’s it. If you’re using Ask Jeeves or Yahoo you’re going to have a hard time.

I can’t remember how I found out about it, but it’s what I used until Google came out. Anyone know if they were the first to use web crawlers like that or did they just popularize the concept?

She kidnapped herself man.

Likely whatever she wants to be given the current politics in the US. It’s blatantly unconstitutional but it will probably not be stopped. If we don’t change course, sooner or later it will be like the religious police in Iran.

How are you defining richest? Of course it’s not richest percapita.