Huh you’re right. No idea how it ended up there.

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Yeah no was refering to the Meanwhileonthegrad or whatever it’s properly called. Not a fan of such far right communities being normalized.

Why would you link a post to such a vile community?

More of a “the bottom of the glass has cracks and is gonna leak any moment” person.

A first step would be to make a basis for your study an ideological interpretation of democracy.

You can quickly see if such studies are burger-eagle institute studies by looking at a few key examples. Compare Switzerland and Cuba. Some of the most democratic nations to have ever existed. Yet Cuba is always rated far worse because it’s in opposition to the cultural hegemony of the west. I.e. then a study uses a western definition of democracy that skews heavily in favour of some statistics while completely ignoring others. For example how democratic an economy is run is almost never any observed factor for democracy indexes. Then other things are weighted out of ideological bias, for example more parties = more democracy. Completely ignoring that party democracies are not the only form of democracy.

“Violence is wrong” mfers when the state executes someone. “Their violence is justified”

Take it with a pinch of salt.

It’s a politically biased study, not a neutral scientific study (Unscientific in its parameters for what constitutes a democracy). It’s another case of a burger-eagle institute study.

That is not to say that democracy is on a global decline. The study captures that but still it’s baseline is flawed.

2. Ist getting likelier by the decade.

Keep winning

They’re not unblockable.

Every now and then Twitch wastes money on circumventing adblockers, but a few weeks later ublock filters will be updated to block that again. I’m currently watching without any ads or third party add-ons besides regular uBlock.

It is a paid VPN luckily though. The issue is with “free” VPN browser add-ons.

There’s also different adblocker rules and extensions for twitch ads.

For some games and websites I have to turn it off yeah. Or at least switch the server to one that isn’t blocked.

It’s a shame that websites are allowed to track and block VPNs.

Never use VPN add-ons for your browser. Unless you get them along with your paid VPN. You should run your entire network through the VPN, not just a browser.

Hey at least Stasi only spied on people they suspected.

It’s crazy that this is legal.

The Nuremberg trials were way too lenient. Instead of establishing the death sentence for every accused right from the go as they should have done, it became a diplomatic battleground between the Allied Powers and the Soviets.

Proton did not only hand over data to the Swiss courts, but the French courts via that. They didn’t just comply with national laws, but those of other countries.

That contradicts their virtue signalled interest in privacy, when they’re willing to surrender any data without even putting up a fight. They did not even try to argue in courts against handing over private data. And considering this lead to the arrest of the activist, it either obviously wasn’t encrypted or Proton had the means to decrypt it on their end.

You can’t just link Proton’s own PR speak as a source to counter that. Of course they would defend themselves.

It’s not about the law, but what’s right to me.

Proton according to this post is virtue signalling. Claiming one thing, then doing the other.

No so does France. Proton helped convict a French environmental activist by providing the courts full access to their private proton account.