To be so fair China makes it easy with all the cool shit they are doing seemingly every day!

Does Google pay you or something? They are an evil company man I assume the worst based on their actions and what they have said. If you wanna use an OS that will be what Microsoft is trying to make Windows into from day one be my guest.

For one on ChromeOS I can run whatever Linux shit I want with their compatibility layer.

Aluminum OS is going to be a locked down like Android is when your carrier locks it down and doesn’t allow users to get root on their phone. They will have an app store with all approved apps on it. Google is currently removing the ability for people to side load apps on their phones (not that most people do that anyway). They will do this on this OS too.

I need you consider the average tech illiterate person who will use this OS and unknowingly have all of their data get silently sucked into Google’s orbit. Google already does this on Android…they want to capture what you do OFF your phone now on other devices too and control it.

I believe in things too much to just lie. It would eat me up inside.

You should read the other comments here because they hit on a lot of them.

This is bad if you want control of your device and data.

This is what happens when you spend all your money on endless war and imperial conquest rather than actually investing in your country and its people.

We spent decades and trillions on death and destruction. China spent that time and money doing the exact opposite.

Man if I was a piece of shit I’d be a right wing grifter too. You get paid to say the dumbest shit to the stupidest people.

Idk the only time I’ve seen Facebook dot com links is when my parents send me AI videos of animals. I’m trying to get them off of it but they are set in their ways, etc etc

This is the innovation capitalism drives. Just worse versions of things we already have with middlemen bolted on to suck more money or control away from you.

Enshittification comes for everything eventually

Any reforms we engage with must necessarily be in service of education and organization of the working class such that we can build the consciousness required to seize the power to reshape society.

Too real. Realizing as an adult I did permanent damage to my brain as a child by accident by watching things like the pain olympics has been a wild one

Advocating for the death of your enemies and crying over them getting killed are two separate things.

I am pro revolution for sure BUT we must be pragmatic with how we approach it - no bourgeoise capitalist system has ever been reformed away but the revolution will not happen over night. I also completely agree on the candidates’ purpose - whether they are winning their races or not, and I do think we can win races, the main job needs to be agitation to bolster the ranks of the organized masses.

Time to find some new activities if meeting people is a priority then I think. Which isn’t to say it will be easy to do but neither are most things worth doing that improve our material existence.

You joke but I think a lot of leftists online unironically believe this.

And I’m not even saying armed revolution is necessarily off the table - but it’s certainly not what we try first or even second or third for that matter.

I understand your desire for change NOW but the unfortunate reality is we do not yet have the conditions for it. There’s plenty of room to criticize many of these figures on the left in the US for various things - I have plenty of smoke for them as well.

BUT while class consciousness remains nearly nonexistent in this country we must engage with the masses where they are at. We must be in the governmental structures that the masses are engaged in so we can be part of the conversation. We must run cadre candidates in elections EVEN WHEN THEY MIGHT LOSE (tactically though we only have so much capacity) so we can spread our message to more people. We must go to the trade unions and tenant unions so we are where the people closest to our movement are.

Left coms will call me a reformist for this take but it is simply a necessary evil we must contend with in the interim. Even once we take control of society we will still have to reckon with the capitalist structures we inherit. We will not be able to do away with it in one fell swoop it simply does not work this way. It will be a decidedly incremental path of dismantling them one by one so we can return power back to the working class citizen.

The primary goal MUST be a pragmatic takeover of the state by using and abusing the systems that exist today, doing what we can to expand the permissibility of our messaging until we no longer need these systems anymore. Organizing a true socialist movement that will not become subordinated to liberals (or hell even the rightist or far leftist socialist tendencies) or worse necessitates a more strategic and patient path towards global liberation and emancipation.

Which is to say…them supporting Israel both here and with all the weapons and tech they send them routinely.

Ok China supporting Israel and sending them weapons is a clear and massive L but this is kinda wild lol

How can this woman’s political instincts be this bad

That’s not what I did at all but that’s a fun way to characterize it.