I realize I'm not entirely free yet, but I sleep better ever since I changed to a non-Google Android ROM. Also because the path to proper mobile Linux feels shorter now.
Anyone still on Google Android: Look into making the change. It's worth it.
And if not, at least start getting your apps from F-droid whenever possible.
There's a similar weird thing going on just north of Trondheim in the middle of Norway (and the middle of nowhere, really). I have no idea what it's about. @beacondb@mapstodon.space (not sure if Mastodon mentions work from PieFed)
Dude, relax.
The very concept of human rights is a product of liberalism as a political philosophy. You seem to support values championed by liberal philosophers, while also thinking that liberalism is basically satan. Pick a side.
I'm anti capitalist, I would consider myself a socialist but not a liberalist, but I'm nonetheless at least as influenced by liberal thought as I am by socialist thought. If you can't square that that's worrying, but I've spent enough time here.
I don't see them as mutually exclusive.
We take a lot of liberal values for granted these days, which ironically makes liberalism an easy target. We owe human rights, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of press, and secularism to liberalism, not to socialism.
Socialist regimes sadly has a mixed record of guaranteeing these rights. I would rather live in a liberal non-socialist society where human rights are respected and I can assemble and protest, than in an illiberal socialist society where I am silenced and human rights are not respected. But again, I think liberal ideals can only be sustained under socialism, and any meaningful socialism can only be sustained when paired with liberal ideals.
Right now human rights and fundamental freedoms are under heavy attack, and I think we need to unite behind them. It's weird to me that people are so hesitant to recognize their liberal heritage. The attacks on liberalism from both sides mean that we lack a lowest common denominator to rally behind - we don't have a shared ideological basis on which we can state that freedom of speech and human rights needs to be protected.
But of course, neoliberalism destroys everything it touches, and I guess it touched upon liberalism as well. I can see why people have their reservations. Private property rights taken to the extreme—as it has been in the west—is fucking dangerous, and it's often associated with liberalism. To me it's more symptomatic of the feudalist shit liberalism was trying to fix in the first place.
I'm an outsider because I'm a European who has studied politics, but I'm pretty far left and consider myself rather liberal.
I don't believe in strong private property rights, and I consider liberal market economies to be complete failures. But I am a strong believer in political equality, consent of the governed, human rights, rule of law, secularism, and freedom of speech/press/assembly/religion.
It's not primarily a theory of how to organize our economy. Neoliberalism fucking sucks.
To me, values like human rights and political equality cannot be guaranteed without heavy redistribution and some form of socialism.
Touché. Gotta admit I didn't think it through properly, there's probably a bunch of other things as well. Point is I think I've provided the music industry with more money than it strictly deserves.
Especially with the price of concerts these days. Jesus.
Lol, I'm a vinyl nerd, I've probably given more money to the music industry than to anything else except food
Easier to let users play music for free when you don't pay the artists I guess
...offline support?