I did already write a manifesto, actually. I think it was written before Trump, but it outlined some non-negotiable demands and some negotiable ones, though I also added a lot more that seem ridiculous. Because a good way to negotiate is to give ridiculous demands so the other will be more inclined to agree to the less ridiculous (which was what you ideally wanted anyways)

They def are Republicans, we just call them RINOs because they’re so far off the deep end that they lick the billionnaire’s boots instead.

The Netherlands has a solution to that free-rider problem. You can “opt out” of healthcare, but if you do so, you must pay every month to a fund for yourself; and if you get injured, all costs are on you, unreimbursed. If it’s empty, your problem.

So in practice, you’re still required to be covered, but if you “opt out”, all costs are on you. And you also will get lower priority in treatment compared to others that are normally covered. Last I recall there are very few people that do so.

There is more in the world than two. I prefer labour self-management where we work together.

The No Kings march managed to bring up 8 million, though! We can do this.

Private property is theft

It does, in the Netherlands (my country), we have universal private healthcare.

We used to have universal public/singlepayer, but decades of liberal governance caused it to be privatised.

In the Netherlands you get the unemployment support depending on how long you worked. So if you worked at least 108 hours in year 1, you get 3 months. By about 8 years+ it’s 2 years.

Unfortunately though the conservative liberal party wants to abolish that and make even more people suffer than Covid already did.

But yeah, assuming the minimum, it’d be about 1.5 years for me, with maximum maybe about 3 years.

Should be WAA•tuhr•vleet, if going by Dutch pronunciation. /ˈwaː.tərˌvliːt/

As far as everyone except oligarchs are concerned, it means everyone can access it without getting financially fucked over into debt. And that’s excellent news.

I’m not sure how “rarely talked about” we’re talking about, but it doesn’t get brought up often enough that Reagan and Thatcher were involved in Operation Cyclone, a CIA and MI5-backed financing of terrorists. specifically, they financed the deeply religious mujahedeen, and even met their leaders.

Those groups opposed labour rights’ movements around the world, which would greatly have benefited engineers, plumbers, electricians, nurses, farmers, scientists, and so on around the world.

My hot take there is this. Osama used to help the mujahedeen, so in retrospect, most theocratic violence (yes, even 9/11) was caused by the aftereffects of Reagan’s and Thatcher’s politics backing religious fundamentalists, rather than y’know, moderate socialists. Capitalists remain capitalists, after all.

Does iodé allow for an iOS-like look? A minor thing for me, but nonetheless…

CalyxOS was founded by someone who worked for the feds through Raytheon, no? I’m doubtful… granted, he got threatened by the FBI, so there’s that.

LineageOS or iodéOS are options, the latter being better if what this summary says is true..

Unfortunately, iodé doesn’t sandbox apps, nor has per-app storage & contact scopes, which are pretty big things. Verified boot is also not thorough, excluding app updates.

And doesn’t Nothing have a privacy policy where the data that they transfer and store, can be outside the EEA/UK? See point 9 there.

Samsung is too big tech for me, so that’s out of the question. Asus would be an option, but the short support is indeed questionable.

Nokia is a possibility, but they got into the AIslop.

Then what is the next best?

As far as daily drivers go and if your threat model would say your risk is low, I think Fairphone with e/ is a great choice, yeah. I was thinking of the Fairphone 6 for that case, actually.

But if your threat model is higher, or if you want to support people with higher threat models, or want to prioritise security, I think GOS seems better. My worry is primarily about the ethics of a Motorola or Pixel, considering where Motorola is based and who owns it.

They are, yes. But it feels all very paradoxical.

A company owned by a country with pervasive surveillance, set in a country with pervasive surveillance laws, cooperating with a OS developer for anti-surveillance measures.

Granted, I could see that from places with pervasive surveillance, a need arises for something that removes all that surveillance. But then, would governments not be harsh on that?

Sadly so far only Belgium, Germany, and France. Why those already managed to put in Wero while the rest hasn’t, is beyond me.

Are there actual, practical reasons? Or are other countries’ governments being lobbied too hard to not put through with Wero?

iDEAL from what I know is basically Wero, just local. So you’re already kind of using it, if you do so.

fascist*

Should also add that a lot of libertarians in reality tend to be more of the “I want the freedom to repress others” people, eg wanting homeschooling (which can increase abuse), opposing measures that would improve every person’s quality of life (such as universal healthcare) etc.

Anarchists on the other hand, tend to be more often on the socialist or communist kind, in where they favour the abolition of hierarchy and thus favour an egalitarian society, by abolition of private (but not personal) property.