Offering a free tier let’s people try the service, and encourages them to become a paid user if they run up against the limits of the free tier.

From what I understand, Tuta may have a slight edge theoretically, but email itself is a pretty poor protocol when it comes to privacy.

Tuta was forced by court order to implement a message logger for an individual, but AFAIK all of their previous messages were encrypted and could not be read by Tuta, and therefore the Government could only see new unencrypted messages coming in before they were encrypted.

Disroot only recently implemented at-rest encryption, so that should be fairly solid now. Posteo also allows you to encrypt your inbox and calendar at rest.

Even with that, consider all private email providers as mostly just to avoid surveillance capitalism (to prevent your data from being mined and sold), but with only marginal protection from state agents.

There was a public vote on whether to eliminate it or not from the .world news and politics communities, and the vote to remove won, thankfully!

Tuta and Posteo are both pretty excellent (posteo is cheaper, but has a few less options that might be a deal breaker if you need them, like custom domain support).

Disroot is a good free option, and they offer custom domains after a one time donation.

Mailbox is okay, though they are known to have a very odd 2fa, and will recycle your address if you ever stop paying, allowing others to claim it and potentially impersonate you.

Posteo is unique in that they’ll never delete your account for inactivity, or even if you stop paying, where they’ll let you access and read emails, but not let you send them until you pay again.

Edit: apparently Tuta is going downhill according to others here, which is unfortunate :(

There’s some good channels on TILVids and Kolektiva.media, and if you’re looking for something specific, Sepiasearch is able to search across all peertube instances.

I think a good option if they live close enough, would be to participate in a 2-gun Desert Brutality match, which is run by Karl Kassarda of InRangeTV, a longtime Anarchist.

Those brutality matches were copied in Ukrainian boot camps, where they reported it was the closest representation of combat conditions they had experienced, and overall the most useful firearm training they did.

An AK-47 or AK-74 will have no advantage against hard armor compared to a 5.56 AR-15, only genuine armor piercing rounds would make any difference, for any of them.

If you’ve seen combat footage from Ukraine, you’ll notice that despite most combatants wearing armor, it doesn’t make them particularly resilient against direct small arms fire, and I think most of it isn’t even AP. the armor buys them a second chance in some cases, but if the enemy don’t hit the armor, they go down regardless, even if it’s not immediately fatal.

I wouldn’t suggest anyone concern themself with having the best armor piercing capability, it matters much less than you’d think.

She also made a video extolling the virtues of capitalism and how science wouldn’t have progressed without it, but then oddly went on to make videos about why she had to leave academia because of profit motive forcing her to research things that didn’t matter but got grant funding to keep her alive, without making the connection that the profit motive that destroyed her dream is due to capitalism.

Not to mention, she’s fueling anti-science perspectives.

I’m not trying to suggest that we’ll fix anything by lowering the stock price of Tesla, I’m just pointing out that it does seem to be having some measurable effect despite how low the turnouts have been for these protests in comparison to Trump’s first term.

Don’t need capial market value when you have de facto slaves, oligarch power and isolationist economy.

Ehh, I can’t say I agree with that. If the economy plummets, it would likely help to turn his base against Trump, which as much as I hate having to exist within this economic framework at all, would be a useful thing to happen. Even in Russia, the oligarch’s grasp on their power is largely determined by their ability to continue their economic prosperity. If they can’t pay the army/police, their tools to control the people are weakened tremendously.

Obviously the U.S. is nowhere near not being able to make those payments currently, but putting the hurt on the US economically, especially if a general strike were to happen as the rest of the world Tariffed us for a sustained period of time, would either force the government to capitulate or violently end the strike, which I can’t imagine would end well for the government.

It seems like a leap that people don’t have the motivation to unionize and strike, but would eagerly hop into a full on violent revolution?

Realistically, unless the military fractures or fully refuses to engage against this revolution, the best you’ll get are The Troubles.

I can’t predict what the outcome will be. It might fizzle out, or it might gather momentum and produce a result.

We’ve already seen that it seems to be effecting Tesla’s stock price. I think either way it’s important for people to see others openly defying all this, if only to prevent the chilling effect that Germany seemed to go through by the lack of visible resistance to the Nazis.

I don’t see why he would?

1. Joining and organizing within your local community to create connections with others is incredibly powerful, will lay the groundwork for effective resistance.
2. We can effect things drastically with a general strike. This can massively impact their income streams, and can bring a government to its knees if done on a large enough scale.
3. Join the IWW and attempt to unionize your workplace, so that the general strike is even more effective.

If we put in the work, we can resist this and we can win. Join up with allies while we still can easily!

There have been some successful non-violent revolutions in history, and there’s a strong case to be made that not exhausting those options could be a huge mistake.

We still have, right now, completely un-used tools at our disposal, such as unionizing en masse and deploying a general strike, which is insanely powerful (capable of bringing a nation to its knees if done widely enough), while being far less dangerous and more appealing to the general populace than any other means.

The 50501 protests have mostly been organized through Social media. As was the Arab Spring.

At some point mainstream media and corporate social media can silence that movement if they wish, which would damage its ability to organize.

Federated social media would not be so easily silenced, and would be able to continue to operate and act as a place e I’d organization regardless.

That’s a powerful ability to make things happen in real life.

I don’t entirely disagree with your assessment, but at the same time I think you may be overlooking some benefits of at least federated social media.

1. Mainstream news and corporate social media are omitting more and more information about the world that doesn’t benefit their aims. With a keystroke they can kill important news that might incite people to act, while pushing news and ideas that will pacify and normalize what is effectively dystopia.
2. There are many places in the world where it’s difficult to find likeminded folk, such as deeply rural areas in red states. Seeing that there are others out there can be a huge mental relief, and may even help them connect with others to enact direct action with.

Federated Social Media by its nature cannot be controlled for the sake of corporate interests, which is unfortunately a rare trait at this point in time. What this can effectively become is a new Citizen Controlled Media, as described by Noam Chomsky. This will become essential to spreading news of real events and ideas on how to resist while bypassing the corporate filter.

Documentary Description:

Disillusioned by the systematic corruption of power after the Iraq War, ex-diplomat Carne Ross examines anarchism as an alternative solution to democracy.

Anarchism offers a solution to the brutalities of Capitalism and the dishonesties of Democracy. It offers a world where people have control over their own lives.

From the protesters of Occupy Wall Street, to an anarchist collective in Spain, to Noam Chomsky, the grand old man of anarchism himself, Carne finds people who are putting the theory into practice.

His journey eventually takes him to one of the most dangerous places on earth - Syria, eight kilometers from the front line with Isis, where a remarkable anarchist state has risen phoenix like from the flames. A powerful film about one man’s epic journey from government insider to anarchist.

Relying on a philanthropist is risky, and possibly unviable if the scale is large enough. Most strike funds are created and maintained using union dues, which would scale up to any size. The unfortunate part is that it generally takes time to fill them, and we’re a bit short on that.

There seem to be quite a few methods, but the best option would probably be to give them away to those who need them, if possible.

That was likely my fault, when copy and pasting the link I missed one letter at the end. Should be fixed now.