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Of course politicians are pro-money. You don't get to be a politician in a capitalist country without being pro-money, wealthy, and well connected to others who are wealthy.

Bribery is in most cases legal in the US. It's called lobbying, or campaign donations, or the revolving door between public service and private industry. It's also an unsolvable problem given the current economic paradigm. The capitalist class will determine government policy in one way or another, as the government is designed to protect the interests of the capitalist class. The will of the working people is completely irrelevant.

Russian money, insofar as it does exist in US politics (there's astonishingly little of it compared to other sources) is drawn to attention by a media that is owned by the same companies and people that are bribing in a much larger way. They call attention to the few thousand dollars a Russian immigrant may or may not have donated to the NRA or a Republican candidate to distract from the billions of dollars Wall Street spends on candidates and kickbacks to make sure they're the ones who control US economic, financial, and foreign policy. It's easy to call attention to Russian money because the same media has created an environment in which anything Russian is pure evil, so people don't even question the content of the story being told. This has its roots in Cold War anti-Soviet propaganda, which has been dug up and repackaged to use against a post-2008 "non-aligned" modern Russia.

I never said these two things were related nor mutually exclusive.

I'll be more explicit.

Russiagate was a work of fantasy telling a story about a supposed Manchurian candidate, rather than admitting that the Democratic campaign made mistakes and that Trump spoke to genuine issues the US population has (of course without solutions but that's not the point here).

~~Bribes~~ Campaign donations and favours are given to candidates and office holders all the time by interest groups, companies, and wealthy individuals. A donation by JP Morgan or a Koch has nothing to do with the Russiagate fairytale.

Russiagate is a made up conspiracy theory and US politicians are ~~bribed~~ lobbied all the time from all sorts of wealthy interest groups.

It's not whataboutism. I'm not comparing anything. I'm simply pointing out that children are actually not safer by supporting the Kiev regime.

Republicans aren't pro-Russia. Some just think war against Iran or China is a higher priority.

You mean this Ukraine?

https://mronline.org/2022/07/12/the-ukrainian-army-is-murdering-the-donbass-children-with-the-help-and-approval-of-the-west/

If compromising the privacy of millions of people is an acceptable alternative to an incredibly infrequent act which can already be perpetrated by other more anonymous means and can be easily mitigated by various socio-economic policies, have at it I guess.

I set it up using a docker image based on the older Firefox sync repo. It's outdated but it works. What I don't self host is authentication as it is way more involved than I prefer my self hosting projects to be and I'd probably end up frustrated by some little thing not working.

Precisely this. The fuss about Chinese telecom hardware spying on you is made up by US intelligence because they want to be the ones who get to spy on you and keep their back doors in your products

I've had a Huawei for years and I love it. The only telemetry I've noticed is from Google services and other third party apps I've installed. I use a firewall to block network access to apps that don't need it.

The French had a pretty good way of shutting up insufferable rich asshats.

A colony returned to its rightful historical people.

A student protest movement coopted by foreign capitalists which led to police being killed.

An island which has always been closely linked to the mainland.

If you're interested in what empire actually is, please read about imperialism and not the latest western capitalist creation.