I can't say that Russia or China are any better, before anyone asks.
As a native born citizen of the US, I just wanted to say I feel bad that you feel the need to iterate this. I know a lot of asshats always make people who criticize the US clarify this, and I can only imagine it gets super annoying even having to do that the first time.
Your criticism of the US doesn't preclude you to defend or criticize other nation-states, those are separate criticisms unless the topic is international relations, which it's not in this case.
I'm not a big enough fan of the medium to be able to keep a community around it alive, but just found a new audio drama recommended in the pluribus subreddit, and am listening to it now (it's called immunities if you're interested).
Anyways, I just looked and was like, oh, there isn't a c/audiodrama on Lemmy. It is what it is, but it'd be nice.
Most of the Anubis encounters I have are to redlib instances that are shuffled around, go down all the time, and generally are more ephemeral than other sites. Because I use another extension called Libredirect to shuffle which redlib instance I visit when clicking on a reddit link, I don't bother whitelisting them permanently.
I already have solved this on my desktop by self hosting my own redlib instance via localhost and using libredirect to just point there, but on my phone I still do the whole nojs temp unblock random redlib instance. Eventually I plan on using wireguard to host a private redlib instance on a vps so I can just not deal with this.
This is a weird case I know, but its honestly not that bad.
Yeah I actually use the noscript extension and i refuse to just whitelist certain sites unless I'm very certain I trust them.
I run into Anubis checks all the time and while I appreciate the software, having to consistently temporarily whitelist these sites does get cumbersome at times. I hope they make this noJS implementation the default soon.
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Yep. I was worried this was coming years ago, and here we are. The next generation of young men both here in the US and abroad will have a large proportion of fascists.
Fighting this ideology is more important than fighting Trump or any individual authoritarian on its own. Encourage empathy and community wherever you are, especially among young children. Strongly condemn fascism wherever you are able. And shame Nick Fuentes and his ilk relentlessly. Let them never sleep.
Then openly express your political and moral beliefs in your community and see how civil your community is with you. Rinse and repeat many times over. I'm sure after doing this many times, you and them will have come to a mutually respectful understanding and have a greater understanding of the world, with your beliefs reinforced by having to defend them, and your views changed by sympathizing with each other. Everyone wins, and a stronger community and democratic consensus will have been achieved.
If you have read the above and thought, "Yes, exactly." All I can say is, how nice for you. The rest of us have a reality to return to.
No, but a lot of people I've met and encountered have a similar fear. Usually there's no way of assuaging said fears as its very very innate and understandable.
I guess I'm not scared cuz I spent a lot of my early adulthood smoking a lot of weed, drinking a lot of alcohol, doing some psychedelics, and participating in various other behaviors in an attempt to forget my somewhat traumatic childhood, in which I was only partially successful at forgetting.
After going to therapy for some time, I realized that traumas cut deeper than memories, and that there wasn't much to do but move forward with all of it integrated and try and do the best I can. It's an imperfect answer, but it's the best I got.
Because of this when I think about the horror of losing my memories, I kind have made peace with that losing memories is likely simply a part of death. Sure there's the horror of still being alive when it happens, but even if you believe in an afterlife, you likely can't hold onto every memory of life and your infinite afterlife, right? Unless you become God or something I guess, but then you have every memory of everything and everyone...which is...well probably kind of boring...so you split your consciousness off into other beings and live as other entities to keep things interesting until the end of time when you, as God, die... unless God also transcends time...but I'm meandering a lot at that point.
And yeah...it goes on like that...a kaleidoscopic rubix cube of making memories and forgetting them and fearing loss and accepting impermanence... eventually you come to accept it...until existential dread hits you from time to time, but you eventually get used to that being part of the whole being alive and existing thing too.
Or at least that's how my insane mind deals with it anyway.
Yeah, apparently you fascists don't get the message, but heck everybody, guess an encore is in order.