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If you are keen on personal privacy, you might have come across Brave Browser. Brave is a Chromium-based browser that promises to deliver privacy with built-in ad-blocking and content-blocking protection. It also offers several quality-of-life features and services, like a VPN and Tor access. I mean, it’s even listed on the reputable PrivacyTools website. Why am I telling you to steer clear of this browser, then?
I’m really not. Hitler was a very different situation than Trump, and if you think they’re directly comparable, you need to take a break from the internet.
Yeah Trump sucks, and he’s dangerous (but mostly in an inept sort of way). I get it. But I think it’s highly unlikely that he tries to take dictatorial control of the US in any meaningful capacity.
There are some reasonable Republicans who don’t like the nonsense Trump is doing. In fact, I’d be surprised if most Republicans aren’t a fan of him flagrantly ignoring the law. Don’t lump them all into the same set of problems, that’s just going to put roughly half of the US against you. Instead of that, you could find some common ground and get a significant number to be on your side. Why fan this stupid culture war nonsense more than necessary?
Call out bad policy, acknowledge good policy, and demand accountability for lawbreaking.
Brendan Eich isn’t some secret Project 2025 mastermind, he’s just a dude that thinks privacy on the web is important and thinks his company has an interesting approach to solving that problem. Yeah, he has at least one bad political view, but that doesn’t mean everything he touches is automatically terrible.
If you can’t see trump becoming a dictator after he has said he would multible times and after a failed fucking coup, everything you said is wrong and or malicious. Thanks for outing yourself.
and this is not me reading into clues sprinkled in reddit comments found while being chronically online. THIS SHIT MAKES THE NEWS OF EVERY FUCKING COUNTRY.
He’s like 80yo. He’s not going to. There’s a better chance that he has a heart attack.
And yeah, countries watch US politics closely, and they’re very unhappy with Trump’s stupid tariffs. His strategy seems to be to jack up tariffs to devalue the dollar a bit to make exports more attractive longer-term. He doesn’t want to annex Canada (though Canadians won’t hesitate to blow that up since there’s an election coming up next month), he doesn’t want to annex Greenland (but he probably wants some land for bases), and he doesn’t want much to do with anything south of the border. He wants to create lots of blue-collar jobs, because blue-collar workers for some reason have been shifting toward the Republican Party, and it’s his job to make the Republican Party more attractive.
I think the whole strategy is dangerous and stupid from an economics standpoint, but I don’t see it as fascist. It’s certainly isolationist and nationalist though, but I see zero indication that he’s interested in nationalizing anything. Maybe I’m wrong, but what I see is a lot of people who are mad because Trump doesn’t listen to them, so they spout alarmist nonsense.
That said, what Musk is doing is absolutely dangerous on another level entirely. He’s putting sensitive data into a format that could be fairly easily attacked by state actors. There’s a good reason we have data separated, and it’s not to intentionally make government ineffective, it’s largely following the principle of least privilege, and Musk is demolishing that. It’s incredibly dangerous, and I’m surprised he hasn’t gotten more pushback on it.
You can believe what you want, of course, but my read is that Trump is pursuing stupid economic policy in a crazy attempt to be remembered long-term as the guy that “fixed” the US economy, not trying to become a dictator. He wants to be remembered.