Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one
Joined Aug 2019
According to research by Erica Chenoweth, non-violent resistance is twice as likely to succeed as violent resistance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJSehRlU34w
Directly confronting invading soldiers, person to person https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pekBo-ynIhI
Defiance in the face of overwhelming odds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7hltmoHQGg
Ukrainians block roads to Russian advance of 'Europe's biggest nuclear plant' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpXLW1-okjE
Unarmed people are standing up to military threats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX8UGH5q74o
Criticizing the fascistic elements of those fighting on your side https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duETyTwojYc
Criticizing militarization in the face of military invasion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKUCFXlplww
Russians protesting all over Russia, many thousands of non-violent protestors arrested https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DffyR6QFqNo
single man stops tanks with only his body https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl8stxUxfNw
protestors block roads for incoming tanks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwbGAuS_KwM
engaging with opposing soldiers with humor and humanity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14gVDF2b1vA
public protest in Russia in the face of aggressive, armored police and guaranteed jail time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG3Z1iiynRc
Peaceful protest in the face of Russian solders' shots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=886GLfYIvpA
I gotta say, I'm now feeling like the tables have really turned. The sanctions response it shaping up to be quite strong. As someone who witnessed the Sept 11 attacks with my own eyes and lived and worked in the smoke of the wreckage, I now can only wonder: where were these sanctions when the US and UK started the illegal and destructive #IraqWar ?
There is lots of talk of military support for #Ukraine, there needs to be much more coverage of the extraordinary acts of non-violent resistance to the Russian occupation. We must work to support strategic non-violence as least as much as military defence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIpgrZ8yS-Q
"...to keep open the possibility of an offer of Nato membership [to Ukraine] that Nato has no intention of ever honouring, and asking Ukrainians to die for this fiction, is worse than hypocritical" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/04/what-would-ukraine-russia-peace-deal-look-like
Hans-Christoph Steiner
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User accounts are so often a method of tracking users, yet they are not a requirement for running most internet services. #FDroid #Jitsi #CleanInsights #Wikipedia #Briar #FirefoxFocus all provide shining examples of working without accounts. https://f-droid.org/2022/02/28/no-user-accounts-by-design.html
Hans-Christoph Steiner
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f-droid's de facto complete lack of any sort of malware is literally more important than any theoretical concern imo
is it possible to sneak malware in if you really tried? yes
is there malware? no absolutely not
you go on google play and download a flashlight app and the top 20 results are all malware lol
sure f-droid has some pretty shit apps but none of them will infect your phone, and to be fair f-droid also has a handful of extremely high quality apps that you would have trouble finding otherwise
so idk, for the average user f-droid is just de facto higher quality apps, and confers more security just by being a little more tightly controlled by forcing apps to be open source (malware people will typically not want to make their shit open source. that's usually how it works)
Joined Aug 2019
