*snort* Few if any of them have any of the necessary skills of a revolutionary. Starting with the ability to *keep their mouths shut*. Do they imagine that, should a revolution actually start, they won't be among the first killed or imprisoned? They'll make excellent object lessons.

Yeah. Those things don't help at all, they're merely becoming the monster one is fighting.

Ugh.

Killing to aggress and killing to defend can use the same methods while not requiring a convergence of the natures of the killers. There is a point to be made, see Nietzsche re monsters and the abyss, but it's nowhere near as simple as "method".

Lower left corner? Or is it just some sort of summary of old news?

Yes, opposing tanks with guns is foolish--but in our time asymmetric warfare has become vastly more successful than in yours. However, such warfare requires a level of commitment that Americans have lost. We're not willing to give up our comforts to oppose our tyrant, never mind die for that cause.

That is the sort of thing that makes me want to laugh in pundits' faces. Before ANY of that has ANY chance of happening, we have to get rid of the government that made it necessary. That won't happen without violence. We're all staring dictatorship in the face and pretending it's still democracy.

I gave no ID when I signed up for Boost Mobile. And you can pay them with cash at any 7-11. So I'm not sure what the point is; anyone who wants to make the effort can get anonymous phone service. All I see here is a higher priced and maybe more convenient version of what I already have.

It's always been that way; we've just chosen to look the other way, often because we approve of the evil they do.

A good Faraday cage can be made with a baggie, some aluminum foil, and tape. Wrap the phone in the foil with at least 3 layers, making sure there are no gaps in any of the layers, put that in the baggie, use tape to make the baggie wrap firmly around it.

Those who can't call out our institutions for supporting the oncoming dictatorship should get out of the reporting business as they have abdicated their fundamental role: reporting *facts*. *We* need to stop pretending that they're doing journalism; they're just going through the motions for pay.

It probably has to, given the quality of user input.

Adding a + before or quotes around "paid" might help. But yeah, ddg has gone way downhill. Among my pet peeves is that "more results" typically repeats results I already saw.

Over on twitter, it's hashtag "blocked for tribalism" whenever I see that crap.

As I said on the hell-site, how about proctology?

You could run a web server on your phone and have it connect via Tor to the rest of the net. You'd be relying on the global IP network, but your website would be *truly* portable. :)

Also, for your amusement: neocities.org

We didn't surrender them. We begged to have them taken from us.

One of my tweets from last February:

"I wonder how many of Trump's Christian supporters remember Matthew 25:31-46, the sheep and the goats. Or Luke 10:25-37, the parable of the good Samaritan. And, if they do, what mental twists they perpetrated in order to evade the obvious meanings."