Here: https://dmpwn.info/

I am not 100% convinced, hence the "may".

Even if that happens (which is not an inevitability, since China historically has been doing things quite differently from the US), it is no worse than status quo. Until then, unless you are an active threat to China, and are planning on visiting it, you don't have to worry about it.

Sooo, same as right now, but with way less possibility to be used against me? Sign me up!

It can provide you some information that looks similar to what you'd want. Whether it is correct is another question.

RAG can help to a degree but hallucinations still happen quite a bit.

Stop using Github! codeberg.org is right here. Or if you're into simpler web 1.0-like things, there's also git.sr.ht (but it is ran by someone who may be a pedo).

It still works without proxy for my family (as of earlier today), except for calls. I don't know if this is telegram doing some block evasion or the block hasn't kicked in fully yet.

In any case, unless they ban like 80% of outside internet, there will still be a few obfuscated VPN servers & tor bridges working. Everyone who knows their stuff will be able to access the outside, same as in China.

They tried (and failed) before the war too. Telegram has no privacy, poor security, but they are really good at evading blocks.

Marxism is the objective truth. It's not some random cult, it's a well-established and studied economic theory that predicted many developments of capitalism when it was still in its early stages.

USSR had a lot of issues, but was a lot better (for the working class) than what was before and what came after. The reason for red scare was to prevent the western working class from overthrowing the oligarchy.

Right now, China is surpassing western neoliberal nations by carefully mixing socialist and capitalist modes of production, guided by Marxism-Leninism with further theoretical developments.

You gotta go out and read some books dude.

Does Visa/Mastercard actually offer any protection themselves? When I've had to reverse debit card transactions due to fraud or otherwise, I always just called/reached out to my bank and they did it. I never communicated with Visa/MC. Since this system is pretty much SEPA in a trench coat, I'm pretty sure the same would work here.

in the aftermath of the US the question was how could this happen?

In the US the pattern is blindingly obvious and has been repeating for more than 50 years. One party makes life worse for the working class while making the rich richer, people get angry and vote for the other party, which then does the same thing but under different guises and with different policies. The exact policies in question (neoliberalism vs. neoconservatism) were not that relevant to these mechanics, except everything kept naturally shifting to the right (which is the ideology most convenient for the billionaires).

Now neocons are straight up fascists, and it's not clear there will be another election.

But in real life a huge majority of people are feeling poor and downtrodden.

So, yeah, there's an obvious solution to this: improve their economic status! There are dozens of "mechanically easy" policies that would lead to this: taxing the rich way more, reindustrializing the country, building and leasing out social housing, implementing strict rent control (or abolishing rent entirely), setting price caps on daily necessities, etc. Immigration is irrelevant to this.

Shifting your ideology to the right to appease nazis literally never works, it is a death spiral for any political organization, leading either to irrelevance or nazism. Instead you resolve the underlying grievances of the working class. However, most political parties in the west are beholden to billionaires and will not do this without significant organizing and pressure from the workers.

Far right is not gaining votes due to immigration! This is just a scapegoat that they themselves designated to keep people's attention away from the worsening living conditions and deteriorating safety nets, and capitalize on anger stemming from that.

The only way to resolve this for good is to improve the lives of working class people through economic policies which benefit them. But that would require stepping on the toes of the oligarchy, so it's not going to happen without workers organizing and fighting for their rights.