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They could turn on end to end encryption and the fact that they aren't doing that is telling imo.

Productivity isn't important to them, control is. It is, always, about control over people's lives. Money isn't what matters, it's just how they keep score.

Imagine having a giant, concrete skillet heating up your city at all hours or the day.

They are not.

They also have a personal, psychological need to be "normal". They can't stand the thought that other people aren't like them--or maybe even more importantly: that they aren't like "normal" people.

Bob Altemeyer's The Authoritarians talks about this in some detail.

Sweden has slowly been going insane right wing (and the rest of Scandinavia too, but more slowly). They failed to treat the Nazis in their society seriously and have allowed racism and conspiracy theories about immigrants and such to fester.

The right is in this for the long haul, too. When Anders Breivik (aka Fjotolf Hansen) blew up a bunch of people, who did he target? He targeted a camp full of future political leaders. He wanted to kill the next generation.

Every modern society has Nazis in it but you can't have a modern, advanced, peaceful society if they get any power. You have to fight them and their bullshit wherever they appear.

I don't want to argue against mental health services, i think mental health services could be helpful. However, i do want to point something out here: saying this is a mental health problem really doesn't make sense. You know a group that has mental health problems? Women. You know who else? Black people. You know who barely do any mass shootings? Either of those groups. We're not (just) talking mental health issues, we're talking about people who view "shooting up a school" as an appropriate way to resolve their social grievances. You can help that with mental health services, you can take their power away by blocking easy access to guns, but that's a pretty big component here as well.

They just don't like Harris and they don't have any reason why that they can talk about in public.

I'd say "he's gonna lie" is the free space on the bingo but there's a lot of competition...

Signal is E2EE encrypted (similar to Telegram's secret chats but probably better) so it's less vulnerable. If people know about it they can ask Signal to ban you, but they can't just passively spy on everything.

That said, XMPP is better still IMO.

(Edit: centralization isn't as big a problem as you might think with Signal. The wealthy own the whole world now. You can't set up somewhere outside their jurisdiction, you can only stay ahead of them as they force people to stop hosting you. Sending a takedown to Signal is the same as sending it to your hosting provider, do not fool yourself. )

True.

I am not a lawyer but as far as I know: it super isn't. It's also illegal for compounding pharmacies to make, where I live.