If you have a phone with custom ROM support, pretty easy. I've been running LineageOS without GAPPS for like 5 years now. Most stuff just works, but to be fair, I am not using any of the cool kids apps like google pay or android auto.
Emotionally, I want to agree with you, but lynching is almost always going to hit the wrong people, too. The well connected teacher/coach/advisor who likes to prey on girls is not going to be hit, but the black guy who happens to be at the wrong spot at the wrong time, and triggers all the "we must protect our women!1!" ?
Oh, definitively not. I'm not even 30, and I remember that NY dad's car from when I was a kid needed a special additive to replace the lead, because that had been banned since he bought it
The thing I hear occasionally and that I actually agree with is that from an outsiders' perspective, the US has a right wing party and a far-right party.
European Socialism? Come on, we are supposed to be better than "socialism is when health care".
I know what you want to say, but last time I checked, every EU country had millionaires and beggars, a market economy, most companies were in the hand of private citizens or shareholders, and guaranteed private property (with the usual legal exceptions).
Don't be like the populists. Words have meanings and meanings matter. It is social market economy at most.
What you write sounds very emotional, and that is precisely the issue.
There are for times as much drunk driving related deaths in the US every damn year than died in the 9/11 attacks. Of course it is a tragedy. But it has been used, and is still used, as a tool for emotional manipulation.
The attacks have been used as justification to destabilise a whole region to this date, uprooted the lives of millions, directly resulted in the death of countless civilians. Not to mention that it has been used to erode civil rights in a manner that was unthinkable for a liberal democracy before.
But if you try to mention this, the switch flips in people's head, and you become the enemy. It is emotional manipulation, plain and simple.
Hiroshima had a lot of deaths as well, so had Tokyo or Dresden. There are very real ethical questions in there. But let's not forget that the axis powers did the London Blitz first, the total war, the trains and death camps and the mass graves in Russia, China and Korea and countless other crimes.
Besides, it is accepted to discuss the ethics of the WW2 bombings now. I distinctly remember doing so in school. But 9/11? No. They conditioned the US to believe that the end justifies all means, even if the means are bombs on hospitals and civilians dying of starvation.
One difference is that Egypt and Turkey have a lot of tourism, so they tend to be quite tolerant towards tourists. You don't want to scare off potential customers. The US seems to forget that.
It is more about being able to constantly spy on everyone. Funny how this exact sentence would have labeled one as a conspiracy nut not too long ago.
Constantly online means constant (more or less) analytics, means constant data to throw in the big computer to make you buy more shit or vote for the shit party.
I am outside of the US, and I do care. Biggest army and economy and so on. Even if not, I would not want to be associated with, idk, Australian wannabe tyrants either.
Of the three trans people I know IRL, all of them are in a (from the outside) stable, monogamous relationship. The only poly people I know are cis-het.
Let's consider that bias influences what we see and want to see.
"Trump bad"
"But but but what about Biden???"