The agents who implement state violence are not a group. They're agents of the state.
And now Google is directly collaborating with an oppressive autocratic regime.
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The agents who implement state violence are not a group. They're agents of the state.
And now Google is directly collaborating with an oppressive autocratic regime.
For the rest of my life I will never forget that Apple and Google went out of their way to defend and protect the Nazi SS of our time.
Absolutely fucking evil and unforgivable.
Ah yes... the guys with masks, guns, the backing of the president, and virtually unlimited federal government resources are a "vulnerable group"
Vulnerable my aunts fanny. They aggressively terrorize everywhere they go. Go everywhere armed to the teeth and are not in any way shape or form threatened with anything or anyone that could harm them sufficiently to put them into a threatened category. This is just google telling us whose side they are on
Good puppy dogs doing Dear Leader's bidding. History will remember!
Isn't ICE one of the biggest budget of the US now? How is that vulnerable?
Do we know yet that what ICE is doing even legal? (kidnapping, detaining, etc) I haven't followed closely enough to be sure of that. Does the actual police just sit by and watch?
We're at that point where we have started to realize that laws are just words on paper unless someone enforces them.
we know it's not legal, but who's going to be do anything about it?
They cheer and provide support. ACAB = All Cops Are Bastards
1312 is another good way of subvert messaging because it can be mistook as the international and area codes for Chicago, IL
Going into an apartment complex, arresting everyone there including children, including US citizens, without a warrant? That's illegal. But there's nothing you can do about it except sue them afterwards.
They're totally vulnerable! Just aim for the head!
Someone recommended Kagi in another thread yesterday and that night I finally became 100% google free. Search was the last big hurdle. I was literally the biggest google fanboy. I had google home devices, google wifi, I wanted all their devices, had all their services, everything was set up and integrated. De-googling was fucking hard but I did it and I'm super proud and I've learned so much about how tech works setting up my replacement services and devices. Fuck you Google.
I had google home devices, google wife, I wanted all their devices
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Lmao wife, WiFi, waifu? Where does one begin and one end I don't even know.
How was search and not the usual maps the hardest? The search is what I feel like most people switch first.
Idk I started using organicmaps (comaps now) long long ago. I guess I don't have a great fundamental understanding of search. Are not most other search engines just hopping on the back of google search engines? I honestly don't know. Its not an area I've spent a lot of time learning about - or maybe I'm just a backwards dude haha.
No, that's fair play! I think you were just ahead of the curve with ditching google maps :D I use a combo of OSMAnd, Comaps, and Magic Earth (not open source, but has live traffic data).
Nisce I haven't heard of OSMAnd or Magic Earth I'll have to poke around!
Ew
Do not let Google escape this, ever. Cancel all payments to them. YouTube Premium, YouTube subscriptions, etc.
I cannot say how much I Wish this would be the onion..
Calling masked, armed, armored thugs and terrorists with a disregard for the law a "vulnerable group" is a bit thick, isn't it?
Do rich cowards that give other rich assholes fealty often do what their rulers tell them?! 1111?
What a fucking piece of shit.
Any web based alternatives? App stores aren’t needed here and it’s a lot harder to stop a website.
So this could get much more serious if they start clamping down on the comm tools we take for granted. Between this and the incoming sideloading block - all of a sudden the most paranoid fears of Stallman's don't seem nearly as far fetched.
The irony is so rich.
To anyone that had doubts about governments putting restrictions on app stores, here is your proof. The level of power the current situation grants this duopoly is excessive and dangerous.
I thought we had all the proof we needed when Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai were snuggling up to Trump at dinners and the inauguration
Oh no, vulnerable 🥺 they need DEI? They need to be a protected class? 🥺
Surveillance is suddenly wrong when it's the peasants surveiling wannabe samurai? 🥺
Can I just be "that guy" and point out the CEO of Google is "Sundar Puchai"?
Who do you think Trump is coming for, you fucking idiot? It's not guys like me named "David".
I hate this. I hate that they are targeting "minorities", or Hispanics, or Indian folks... But many people in charge who are part of these groups don't even care. They think they are special. You're money doesn't make you immune, you complete goddamn waste of oxygen.
We're trying to fucking help you. Stop condemning fellow human beings for the sake of profits. You are damning your children, and your family. You are selling them for gains. We hate you, and so do your children.
Rich Brahman caste Indians, or similar believe they are the ones most similar to rich white people. At least if you looked into Indian caste system, they are notoriously conservative and probably racist too. Usha, is also part of it
They need to be protected alright, with thick concrete walls, iron bars, locks, and guards. Nobody in or out for a few decades oughta keep them nice and safe
The 1 million dollar question: Would I be able to side load it with the new Google developer registration rules?
lol
Any man with a mask is a threat to me and my immigrant wife. I do not give a fuck if the patch says "POLICE". Here, get one on Amazon, anyone can.
I am armed everywhere I travel past my front yard. I am armed on my shitter. Insane, I know, but that's where America is at. I am on a fucking hair trigger. Course ICE isn't around here, we rednecks are well armed. Funny how that works out.
Another reason is that your fellow rednecks, by and large, are all for this shit.