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  • bad_newstoPrivacy@lemmy.ml*Permanently Deleted*
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    3 days ago

    Do you mean kicking that journalist off under pressure and revealing a log in IP? I honestly don’t expect my email provider to go to jail for me, it’s a pretty piss poor medium for private communication to begin with. I do, however expect it to work. Every clearnet service requires email, and losing access locks you out of your whole life nowadays. The argument I make to normies to get off gmail has moved from “They’re spying on you” to “AI hallucinations lead to bans of random accounts daily, can you afford to lose it?”












  • Vietnam outright won, so there’s no vassal state to be concerned with, and Vietnam is pretty US friendly now, and not thaaaat communist. Ho Chieh Minh wasn’t a hardcore communist to begin with, he was a cabbie in Boston for a while and was quite open to cooperation. The whole Vietnam war happened because the French raised up a tiny set of Catholic Vietnamese (like 3%) as a master race above the rest of the population. Eventually the Catholic minority tried to ban prayer flags on temples, which if you know Buddhism in that region was not going to fly (pun intended). The French turned over control to the Americans who put in a stooge who played us like Netanyahu and made the whole thing a domino theory thing, basically forcing the Buddhist majority over to the Chinese for support. Vietnam isn’t actually particularly dedicated to communist revolution, they just didn’t want French people taking away their religious rights and it was a convenient bogeyman for the cold war narratives of the time, so nowadays they’re probably more US-aligned than Chinese.