And not to make this even longer, but the people with the means to move to another state much less another country are the wealthy. The poor, who are the ones who might benefit most from moving, are unable to, trapped in the cycle here.

I will say you are mostly right, but also note that all the refugees that have been going everywhere (including into Brazil! We get lots of Haitian and Colombian refugees mostly) since before I was born were exceptionally poor people.

I have a coprolith.

It’s part of my bathroom’s decoration.

If all you want is a place to get memes, hello, you’re in the least bad place on the internet, the indie web/fediverse.

But to keep in touch with family members and friends, who are likely not techy people?

… I guess you could get them on Signal?

I mostly talk to my folks through Telegram, but that’s as far as I could take them (still consider it a win over using WhatsApp, because Telegram might be full of fascists but at least has an open API and a competent Linux client)

A few options:

1. Get out. If you’re one of the people fascists want dead, then surviving is in and of itself an act of resistance. Leave their domain. Go somewhere else. And live – Just live. Build a life they can’t touch.

2. Organise and survive under their noses. It will not be easy, even if fascism has a short shelf life… It still does a lot of damage while it is active, and you and yours could end up as their target. Still, your best chance of surviving is by grouping up. Meet your neighbours, meet your local activists, get to know them, and start helping each other.

3. Violence. But. It’s not enough to just go spree killer. The violent response demands organisation. You could join an armed resistance group. Or, if you leave the country, if it comes to war, you could enlist to fight against your old nation. Lots of people did both in the forties.

That’s fair, but isn’t Estonia like

An exceptionally nice place to live?

I would wager that for an american coming from like. NY, or Detroit, Brazil would be outright comfy by comparison.

Yeah no

I know 1(one) other person who was Special Ed in Brazil and they don’t mention anything of the sort.

The most “dangerous” cities are Rio, São Paulo, and Salvador. But the thing about the lethality of those cities? Most of the people who are dying aren’t foreign expats like you, it’s the inhabitants of the samesuch poor areas, surrounded by mobsters and having to just deal with that on a day to day basis.

For everyone else? The big urban centers are dangerous to your property. Be careless and you will be mugged. Not pickpocketed. Mugged.

But at the same time Brazil is a pretty large place with lots of different cities. I’ve lived in a medium-to-large city (and NOT one of the famous ones Gringos would know) my entire life and been mugged… Twice. In thirty years. Both were harmless other than the loss of my cell phone.

I am legally mandated (it’s in my country’s constitution I’m pretty sure) to say “come to Brazil” in response to that.

Said on Mastodon, will repeat here:

This is the least surprising thing since that thing that wasn’t very surprising.

To every Yankee reading this, I just hope you guys are like. Safe. Shit’s gonna hit the mega fan over there it seems.

30 years old now. Was put in Special Ed at age 9. Dysgraphia + What at the time they called ADHD, but my current psychiatrist and therapist believe is actually ASD.

Special Ed means different things in different places. In Brazil in the very early 2000s it meant I attended school with all the normal kids, but would stay in the afternoon for a bunch of mandatory extra stuff.

Consequences… ? Enh. I mean. I never learned how to properly study, given I had tutors for every subject and so was basically always in class. To this day I’m not sure how one studies on their own. Had quite a hard time through college, when I had to figure this shit out on my own. Still managed to graduate eventually.

But like. Some people who were in Special Ed report, like, major emotional trauma from it. That really wasn’t a thing for me, I guess I got lucky? At most I have an irrational dislike of colouring pencils because of all the colouring books they made me fill in, in hopes that would “cure” my dysgraphia (fat load of good THAT did).

I got emotional trauma from bullying, but I was already being bullied before being put in Special Ed. And it didn’t get any better or worse until I like. Changed schools.

You’re missing the important factor of the cultural zeitgeist

People who flocked to RedNote weren’t just going there for an alternative to TikTok

They were specifically going there because the US government said “you can’t go on the Chinese App!” so they said “Oh yeah? I’m gonna find an even MORE Chinese app to hang out at!”

I have long since given up on Normies ever coming to the Indie Web, federated or otherwise

Ever since the big Xwitter exodus, when people went to BlueSky when Mastodon was right there.

It is only for people adopting Linux after 2023

If you did it earlier, like me, you’ll have to purchase your socks separately.

Your striped thigh-highs will be delivered in the mail within a month.

You know this human instinct, when if told we can’t have The Thing, we start wanting it even more?

The American government told its kids that they can’t have The Thing, the thing in this case being tiktok (a Chinese-run social media app)

So they found out about an even MORE Chinese social media app (tiktok was openly courting the west, had an English language app etc, while Rednote is made by the chinese for the Chinese and doesn’t even have a client in English) and went there, which slightly miffed the Chinese userbase suddenly having to deal with all those weirdoes who wanted them to stop speaking mandarin and start speaking english.

It’s just a trend. People are trying to ascribe deep meanings to it because conspiracy thought is entertaining, but really, it’s just a bunch of people following what’s trendy, and either way for any eagle burgers pearl clutching about the red menace, Rednote is covered in the ban because it is a blanket ban on any “apps run by a foreign adversary”. You’ll be safe behind the great american firewall soon.

Ofc, I doubt it’ll be enforced for things like temu and wish.

Nobody likes grammar pedants.

THAT died and got replaced last month.

Came home from a trip

Plugged the machine in

Popping sound

It was dead

Hexbear has its origins on Reddit’s ChapoTrapHouse which I’m pretty sure has a connection to leftypol in its history.

But sure

My point is:

Hexbear = Jerkoffs, except class conscious

Would be nice if they weren’t jerkoffs but hey, at least they have class consciousness.

Oh another one of these

Short answer:

“What if 4chan was communist instead of neonazi”

Similar level of assholety and low post quality. Better politics. Overall don’t bother, not worth it.

Yeah I mean. To me “shutting down the computer” means I’ll be going away from it

Like if I’m going out the house or to bed.

At that point I just tell the computer to turn off and walk away

Also really, waiting two minutes is not a big deal. Y’all are too spoiled by modern machines. Just go have a cup of coffee/water/diet coke/take a piss while your OS does its thing if you’re doing a reboot for some reason.