For all my sins, thank fuck I’m not an American.

Exactly. Now that your head is on the block, you see it as a problem. But when it was all those Mexican kids ripped from their families during the biden administration, or all the orphaned Afghanis during Obamas, the status quo continued.

The story with the US regime is always the same, a self serving nation at the expense of other nations with the added caveat that its own citizens are now fair game.

You’re so close to understanding why there is so much contempt for America on the world stage. Keep going and hopefully you’ll realise the only solution you should be fighting for is the dissolution of the united states. The death of the empire will benefit all except those the empire actually serves.

Ah so you weren’t interested in the overseas sentiment at all, you’re just looking to excuse yourself from the culpability.

Atleast we know which category you fit in I guess.

The ‘response from overseas’ comes from a decade of watching trump politics gain favour in the US. Massive rallies about making America great again, and taking your country back rhetorics, even after all the Epstein stuff came about, the religion of trump flourished in America.

Sure, you can claim that he’s a dictator now. But only because americans have allowed him to become one. That’s why the overall sentiment from the rest of the world is negative. Americans made this monster, and now it’s the world that has to deal with his bullshit.

That’s not to say america wasn’t already fucking everyone else over, that’s the American way and has been happening since they discovered stars and put them on fabric. But Trump has exacerbated that issue, and the American people are complicit for supporting the growth of such a monster; it’s fresh to Americans, because now even the American people are on the receiving end. But for the rest of us, this is the same story just worse.

I’m not saying this applies to you personally btw, I’m just trying to share the honest sentiment around Americans as a whole. There will undoubtedly be exceptions to the rule, but from an overseas perspective, there’s been nowhere near enough.

I use Ubuntu touch as a personal device, which has zero support for banking apps, meaning I have to have a backup Android device. My work phone is a pixel 6 running graphene OS, which manages to run all of my banking apps just fine. (Though admittedly I ‘got lucky’ in the sense that my banks are supported by graphene OS)

Graphene, or any other alternative to the big 2, aren’t perfect and don’t cover all banks, but graphene is by far the frontrunner for a viable alternative. If you haven’t toyed around with it and get the opportunity, id definitely recommend it.

I really hope we do see further Linux phone development, but without buy-in from the banks themselves, they will not be supported for the same reason Graphene isn’t. The only difference is Graphene allows sandboxing play integrity to navigate the “Google has to say it’s okay” nonsense. It’s a rock and a hard place problem; the banks won’t support without mass adoption, and mass adoption won’t happen due to lack of banking support.

I think sailfish OS has a similar integrity sandboxing concept, though I haven’t tried that personally, so can’t comment on how well it works.

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