I find it funny when Westerners suddenly pretend to care about human rights when bougies visit a Western client state but crickets will chirp when they visit literal settler-colonies like the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Canada, or when they visit countries that continue to have colonies today like Denmark, France, the U.K., or when they visit countries that gave birth or provided/continue to provide human capital to the Euroanglo-Zionazi Entity like... basically the entirety of the Global North.
The Euroanglo-zionazi Entity wouldn't stop at Palestine, you understand this, yes? "Greater Israel", does that ring a bell at all? This idea of "just move Arabs to Arab country X, Y and Z" is a Zionazi rhetoric intended to drive Palestinians who rightfully own their land out, no matter how you cut it.
Understanding that the Euroanglo-zionazi Entity is a settler-colony and outpost granted by the British, occupied by various Europeans and now spearheaded by another settler-colony, the US, will help reveal the "solution".
The US can make a single fucking phone call to the Zionazi "government" to at the very least stop the current genocide. European states can recall their citizens colonizing Indigenous land. With that in mind, the only way forward is through continued mounting of pressure on these states that are colonizing Palestine via organization, which we are seeing a glimpse of with the Global Sumud Flotilla, BDS and other important initiatives.
"Buy European" / "Use European" is a deeply unserious and reactionary mantra that assumes software and hardware manufactured and designed in Europe is inherently the "safest" and "most secure". Or if not, then "safer" than their AmeriKKKan or their Chinese counterpart. Or if it is not "safe" at all then it is assumed it is "less unsafe".
It's reactionary, because it reinforces ideals for European nationalism and only ever came up so far when Trump got elected. It also necessarily espouses the Great Man Theory because of that, which you seem to entertain there.
If Europe or European companies were serious about security and privacy, they would do well to decouple from GAFAM. The reality is that European institutions all use Microsoft or Amazon to host their websites, use Google or Microsoft for their office suite software (save for a few and far between insignificant instances of LibreOffice use), use Instagram/Facebook/Twitter/etc.. for public communication, as well as promotional and marketing purposes, and so on.
If the EU had any skin or teeth, they would actually enforce their GDPR regulations and not allow any GAFAM in Europe. Instead, they are essentially allowed to continue to operate, the "fees" GAFAM pay for violations of GDPR rules are basically only chump change and can be made back within hours.
And finally, the EU routinely invests in spyware to be used within and outside their borders. It's no surprise it deservedly doesn't get the traction Europeans want.
The real solution, which correctly transcends any and all borders, involves advocating for Free/Libre Open Source Software and Hardware. It shouldn't be hard to understand why.
Solve the genocide, ethnic cleansing and illegal European settlements by driving out Indigenous Palestinians and erasing Palestine, once and for all? Are you sure yourself of what you're saying?
Great vid, but did the reviewer really have to rub the "European" aspect of it throughout? smh...
Anyways, she mentions that there's the option of using Aurora Store + F-Droid, I wonder if govt. apps that are basically required for day-to-day services (e.g. Absher, Sehaty) would work with or without microG.. I might try and find out for science, once I have the means to do so :).
Otherwise, compartmentalizing by having two phones, one Android for the govt apps and one Linux, would basically be meta until something changes.
I wouldn't know for sure, I don't usually go near Basically 4Chan With An Orange Coat Of Paint unless if I accidentally find something that's eyebrow-raising or if it's against my will.
Sadly Invidious instances always have problems because Google keeps making breaking changes to how videos are fetched, intentionally or unintentionally.
Fair... I guess a better question is: Why did he want to resign in the first place? Try as I might from avoiding Nazilib misinformation from search results, I found this in the ProleWiki:
but nothing seems cut-clear about his motivation to quit... There's this baller quote though:
What could I do? Desert my post? That is not in my nature; I have never deserted any post, and I have no right to do so, for that would be desertion. As I have already said before, I am not a free agent, and when the Party imposes an obligation upon me, I must obey.
Western democracy is so free and tolerant that they're willing to go easy on a guy committing several types of sexual violence on women and minors in the book for at least a decade. Just one more chance, surely he'll turn a new leaf.
My favorite thought-terminating goalpost-moving/gaslighting cliches (not necessarily from the thread itself):
"Blame the government, not the people" told in response to raising issues about Western imperialism and specirically naming certain Western countries (but the same sentiment, of course, does not ever get applied to the Global South)
"You need to improve your time management if you're struggling with staying on top of tasks" told in response to high school/college students raising concerns about workload who may or may not need to finance their studies by also taking up work, who may or may not also be a single parent, and has to sacrifice their personal time, social life, family time, etc.. just to barely practice this advice.
"There are many people like you with the same set of problems" (alternative to "life is unfair" and not often mentioned). In a vacuum, it could be factually true, but in contexts like the one by OOP, it's plain and simple disingenuous to just say that. Just like "life is unfair" it's just a way to punch down people showing any hint of vulnerability, which just reinforces the idea that we should only be vulnerable if we or the issues that we have are "unique"...
What's worse, is that these zingers (along with the ones mentioned here) are internalized and some of us, if not most, end up beating ourselves over it..
As for the last category, these people need to look in the mirror once in a while:
I would really like to hear what we could do to lessen the propagation of these silly ideas that are clearly said by people benefitting most from capital. Rambling over.
I find it funny when Westerners suddenly pretend to care about human rights when bougies visit a Western client state but crickets will chirp when they visit literal settler-colonies like the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Canada, or when they visit countries that continue to have colonies today like Denmark, France, the U.K., or when they visit countries that gave birth or provided/continue to provide human capital to the Euroanglo-Zionazi Entity like... basically the entirety of the Global North.