anarchoilluminati [comrade/them]

Nothing will be private enough for some people.

There will always be people who will scoff and puff about what is working for you or what works best for you in your attempt to regain privacy. What’s important is for you to assess your threat profile, what you want to accomplish, and if LineageOS helps you with that. Just the other day people were scoffing at people buying physical movies and not backing them up in 1-2-3 format. Like, who has the fucking time and energy for that? And it’s stupid. It’s like scoffing at people who buy books because eventually the binding may fail or the book could get wet so they should’ve scanned it into a PDF. Or when people scoff at Proton users instead of being glad people are weaning off Google. It never ends and it gets worse the further you go down the hole. Ignore them.

What other options do you have for your phone at the moment besides Lineage? Regular Android? Better off having Lineage.

China has noodles though.

I’m not just saying this because we’re on Hexbear but I didn’t even think he was a good speaker. His speech was maybe well written but the delivery was dry as hell. Fucking Br*t.

Oh, I completely agree!

Libs think it’s Communism 101 when it’s really a distillation of a vast amount of knowledge and experience—and it’s a specific call to action for those already deeply involved in the movement—then when they don’t immediately understand it they call it unrealistic. The fault is with the perceiver, not the perceived. The Manifesto is great if you understand all the background and context behind it. If they just wander off the street after a lifetime of only reading Harry Potter, then it’s no surprise they don’t understand it. So, I never recommend it to anyone. Anyone who I think should read it would’ve already read it by that point.

That being said, Calculus is Satanic black magic and a hoax.

Russia is Mordor though. Maybe DPRK is Isengard?

Nice, good luck with the refresh!

You know, I’ve never even read Foundations of Leninism. I’m going to put that on my own list. Thanks!

Not trying to diss the Manifesto but I never recommend it to people to read first. Everyone who I’ve met who isn’t a Comrade and only read the Manifesto always walk away saying the same shit about how it’s “a great idea but not realistic and there’s no real plan” blah blah or they just straight up say it’s dumb because it isn’t serious.

I think Principles of Communism is great as a real beginner FAQ and Socialism: Utopian and Scientific to dispel most of the “unrealistic” attacks. Stalin’s Dialectical and Historical Materialism is even better if they already read analytical works generally.

You have a lot more experience actually creating reading lists and guides though, just sharing what I’ve noticed.

He wasn’t a Nazi, he was just fighting the Soviet Union!

He’s just an innocent soldier fighting for the freedom of his Fath— I mean, Homeland!

It’s all good! I think there are spoilers like that too? That sounds familiar.

Anyway, I’m using a new app so I thought I did it wrong as it was so I appreciate you saying this because it helped me get verification I did it right!

At least revolutionaries like Cassian existed.

Uh, what??

EU? More like PU.

It’s so difficult to explain this to some people in the global south too. I’ve had people think I was crazy or just making shit up, they just straight up don’t believe it.

Oh, Jesus. That’s terrifying to read.

What’s Post Finasteride Syndrome?? Just curious.

Yeah, okay, but none of that is actually real. At least the books are good about addressing actual social issues, like POC representation with such fleshed out characters as Cho Chang and Kingsley Shacklebolt.

NOFX’s “Please Play this Song on the Radio” immediately comes to mind.

Can I get in on these rituals, please?