Specifically US corporate interests.
avidamoeba
joined 2 years ago
Given my interactions with zionist friends and family, they're completely out of touch. They've shoehorned themselves into a hasbara bubble and consider anything not pro-Israel to be "Qatari propaganda" one way or another. That closes any channel that could possibly inform them of the way they appear and lets them lean into their victimhood, raging against anyone and anything that isn't aligned.
That's important context for what happened in 2020.
Broadly, if one believes that elections are a tool that should be leveraged, it's crucial to understand that elections are not enough, Never have been. Elections are but a small part of the democratic system. All the other cogs - campaigns, fundraising, at all levels of government, for this or that office, within parties, all of that matters immensely. The people you mention who acted as a bulwark against the fascists were a product of that system. Who the choices are come election time is the product of that. Whether it's a Turd Sandwich v. Giant Douche. Or whether it's Mamdani v. Cuomo.
Because hexagons are the bestagons.
I think the leftist point being made isn't that any particular election has no effect. Of course elections have effects. At the very least they provide legitimacy. I think the point is that even though it worked to unseat Trump in 2020, the election did not halt the long term processes leading us towards fascism. It slowed them down a bit but didn't reverse trend. Reason being that the owner class kept expanding their wealth and therefore control over the entire system. I think leftist memes about elections are often poorly communicated or understood, which isn't ideal, but then it's ..memes.
Oh? I haven't upgraded yet. 😄
That's how it works with Tailscale as well. Tailscale creates Wireguard tunnels underneath between the different devices. There's also an open-source self-hostable Tailscale control plane.
I do use both a reverse proxy and Tailscale. All services are proxied. All services except for Jellyfin are accessed only via Tailscale. Jellyfin is publicly available. I've obscured it a bit by setting up long, randomly generated DNS name. The proxy would only forward traffic to Jellyfin if the request comes from that exact DNS name. Bots would have to know this name for the proxy to entertain their attempts at all. Then every user has long, randomly-generated password. I prefer to only use it behind Tailscale but some of my family needs direct access. Also Chromecast.
I do. No issues.
Switched to Jellyfin after more than a decade with Plex. Prettey.. prettey.. pretty good.
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