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Remove All American Media And Culture From Your Life

Anti-imperialist comm to help you in your personal journey of cultural anti-imperialism.

American culture has spread all over the world, it has dumbed down and impoverished our variegated pre-colonial and non-capitalist cultures. Every time you yank yourself, a bit of their culture worms its way into your mind. Sometimes it's explicit propaganda like Top Gun, but sometimes it's subtle: the contempt shown for the poor, the celebration of selfishness, the value-system of their empire.

All inputs enter the mind, are absorbed, and blossom as thoughts and deeds. Mass-produced culture dulls you and makes you a boring, mass-produced personality. And nations are losing their personality by letting one imperial power do this to them.

That the empire is doing this as a more-or-less deliberate tool of influence doesn't need stressing.

Stop doing this to yourself. Don't watch their television. Don't watch their films. Don't read their stupid news and politics: ABC and CNN and NBC and the rest. Don't be so fucking boring. You don't have to be boring and stupid. Turn off your TV. Pick up some of your country's classic books, or listen to African funk, or go to a storytelling night.

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The Microsoft-Dilemma - Europe as a Software Colony (documentary, 44min) (kolektiva.media)
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Use a Swedish operating system instead lads

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Microsoft is only a small part of the problem

The real problem is the cellphone market: people literally can't live without a cellphone anymore. Iin many countries, a cellphone is an absolute necessity to do basic things like banking or dealing with the administration. And virtually all cellphones are under the control, and under the heavy surveillance of two American Big Data monopolies.

That means many countries have virtually surrendered their sovereignty to broligarchs from a country that is well on its way to becoming a full-blown fascist state because of those damn miniature surveillance devices that virtually nobody can live without anymore.

Let me rephrase this in blunter terms: ALL IT TAKES IS ONE WORD FROM TRUMP TO ORDER GOOGLE AND APPLE TO CRIPPLE A COUNTRY'S INFRASTRUCTURE!

This has been scaring me for a very long time and I just don't understand how it's never seemed to scare any elected officials in any country that proclaims to care about the sovereignty of their nation.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The video has multiple arguments, yes security is one, but the that stands out to me is that Microsoft is dictating the terms of agreement with national governments and hiding how tax payer money is used. Governments have just accepted to support a monopoly.

The phone in your pocket is a private choice and not done on behalf of others.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

The phone in your pocket is a private choice and not done on behalf of others.

And I argue that it really isn't.

In many country, you need a phone. Not want, need. And your choice is Google or Apple. Some choice....

And before you tell me there are custom privacy-oriented Android ROMs, Linux phones and PinePhones, more often than not, they're not an option: if your bank's secure app or your government's mandated ID app won't run on a non-Google or non-Apple OS, you're back to having to buy a Google or Apple surveillance device.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Do you need a phone or do you need access to the internet?

We have an ID system here that most have on the phone, but there is a dongle alternative for those that donโ€™t have smartphones. Everything else just needs a browser.

Of course the argument could just repeat, everything is based on Chrome almost.