The Strange Tale of the Freedom Phone (nytimes.com) 171
A 22-year-old Bitcoin millionaire wants Republicans to ditch their iPhones for a low-end handset that he hopes to turn into a political tool. From a report: It was a pitch tuned for a politically polarized audience. Erik Finman, a 22-year-old who called himself the world's youngest Bitcoin millionaire, posted a video on Twitter for a new kind of smartphone that he said would liberate Americans from their "Big Tech overlords." His splashy video, posted in July, had stirring music, American flags and references to former Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Donald J. Trump. Conservative pundits hawked Mr. Finman's Freedom Phone, and his video amassed 1.8 million views. Mr. Finman soon had thousands of orders for the $500 device. Then came the hard part: Building and delivering the phones. First, he received bad early reviews for a plan to simply put his software on a cheap Chinese phone. And then there was the unglamorous work of shipping phones, hiring customer-service agents, collecting sales taxes and dealing with regulators.
"I feel like practically I was prepared for anything," he said in a recent interview. "But I guess it's kind of like how you hope for world peace, in the sense you don't think it's going to happen." For even the most lavishly funded start-ups, it is hard to compete with tech industry giants that have a death grip on their markets and are valued in the trillions of dollars. Mr. Finman was part of a growing right-wing tech industry taking on the challenge nonetheless, relying more on their conservative customers' distaste for Silicon Valley than expertise or experience. [...] To make a smartphone, however, he had to rely on Google. The company's Android software already works with millions of apps, and Google makes a free, open version of the software for developers to modify. So Mr. Finman hired engineers to strip it of any sign of Google and load it with apps from conservative social networks and news outlets. Then he uploaded the software on phones he bought from China. To unveil the phone, he recorded an infomercial in which he cast the tech companies as enemies of the American way. "Imagine if Mark Zuckerberg banned MLK or Abraham Lincoln," he said in the video. "The course of history would have been altered forever."
[...] Thousands of people bought the $500 phone. Others, including some conservatives, quickly panned the animated pitch. Quickly, news outlets reported that the Freedom Phone was based on a low-cost handset from Umidigi, a Chinese manufacturer that had used chips shown to be vulnerable to hacks. Mr. Finman, who marketed the device as "the best phone in the world," was on the defensive. In an interview in July, Mr. Finman admitted that Umidigi made the phone but still said he was "100 percent" sure it was more secure than the latest iPhone. Apple has tens of thousands of engineers. Mr. Finman said he employed 15 people in Utah and Idaho.
"I feel like practically I was prepared for anything," he said in a recent interview. "But I guess it's kind of like how you hope for world peace, in the sense you don't think it's going to happen." For even the most lavishly funded start-ups, it is hard to compete with tech industry giants that have a death grip on their markets and are valued in the trillions of dollars. Mr. Finman was part of a growing right-wing tech industry taking on the challenge nonetheless, relying more on their conservative customers' distaste for Silicon Valley than expertise or experience. [...] To make a smartphone, however, he had to rely on Google. The company's Android software already works with millions of apps, and Google makes a free, open version of the software for developers to modify. So Mr. Finman hired engineers to strip it of any sign of Google and load it with apps from conservative social networks and news outlets. Then he uploaded the software on phones he bought from China. To unveil the phone, he recorded an infomercial in which he cast the tech companies as enemies of the American way. "Imagine if Mark Zuckerberg banned MLK or Abraham Lincoln," he said in the video. "The course of history would have been altered forever."
[...] Thousands of people bought the $500 phone. Others, including some conservatives, quickly panned the animated pitch. Quickly, news outlets reported that the Freedom Phone was based on a low-cost handset from Umidigi, a Chinese manufacturer that had used chips shown to be vulnerable to hacks. Mr. Finman, who marketed the device as "the best phone in the world," was on the defensive. In an interview in July, Mr. Finman admitted that Umidigi made the phone but still said he was "100 percent" sure it was more secure than the latest iPhone. Apple has tens of thousands of engineers. Mr. Finman said he employed 15 people in Utah and Idaho.
from "a report"? It's The NY Times, give credit (Score:5, Informative)
Spoiler — he ended up reselling phones from ClearCellular (https://www.clearcellular.org).
Re:from "a report"? It's The NY Times, give credit (Score:5, Informative)
If you want an actual "freedom phone," get a Linux-based Librem 5 [puri.sm]. No Android, no Ios, and hardware switches so you can make the phone go dark at will.
You can even get a model that has the chips built in the USA, so no China either. But....you pay for it. That model is two grand.
If you want something cheap, well, you will get what you pay for. Freedom requires sacrifice.
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But does it have systemd? (And is that a positive or a negative?)
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Librem 5 uses PureOS [pureos.net], which uses systemd.
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The harder someone tries to 'sell me' that 'their thing' is about privacy, or uses trigger-word laden promotional crap like "...a phone built on PureOS, a fully free, ethical and open-source operating system that is not based on Android or iOS..." the more and more I see a worm dangling from a hook, the barb just *barely* poking out behind it.
Sorry, it's 2021.
That shit's trying so very hard to CONVINCE me that it's locked-in safe, I have to basically assume it ships in boxes out of the NSA basement. There
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Its supported 100% by its bootstraps.
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ok.
i guess horse de-worming supplies were getting low
Re: from "a report"? It's The NY Times, give credi (Score:5, Informative)
47. Elgazzar A, Eltaweel A, Youssef SA, et al. . Efficacy and safety of ivermectin for treatment and prophylaxis of covid-19 pandemic. Res Square. 2020. doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-100956/v2.Preprint. [CrossRef]
Oh look, it's the study that was retracted [galencentre.org] for plagiarism and falsifying data. So, your review relies on a study that showed the only real world benefit, by using fabricated data, and doesn't have enough evidence to show a benefit without it due to the large effect it had on the review's outcome [bmj.com]. It's therefore completely invalid. Did you know about this and continue to post it anyway, or did your right wing echo chamber not bother you to inform you of this scientific fraud?
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You're right, of course. Don't take Ivermectin. Get the bloodclot shot instead. Dead people can't catch COVID-19. Think of it as the ultimate virtue signaling.
Blood clots occur with a 0.0007% probability after receiving the shot (7 cases per million). And mind you that not all such cases resulted in a fatality. Meaning, the fatality rate from vaccination is far less than 0.0007%.
So where the fuck do you get your bullshit about "dead people" here? Math doesn't support your bullshit since we know that even with the most liberal of data interpretations, you still have a greater risk of death or long term injury from COVID than from the vaccine, but several orders
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Re:The NY Times, masters of lies (Score:5, Informative)
The NY Times — masters of lies [nypost.com] and spin. If they are talking a product down, it must be a worthwhile offering.
Dude... arstechnica [arstechnica.com] was reporting on this months ago. The NYT is simply catching up.
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/. beat Arstechnica [slashdot.org] on a story? Isn't it usually the other way around?
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A time honored tactic of dictators all over the world. Truth is the enemy of the corrupt. The Republican party is fully fascist at this point. so I would expect nothing less.
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Spin? You mean because it wasn't glorifying the Freedom Phone like all good citizens are required to do?
Re:The NY Times, masters of lies (Score:5, Insightful)
Lol and you quote the Post.
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Officer Sicknick's death was not so cut and dried as the Post makes out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
So, the NY Times was simply reporting what law enforcement told them. The Post, on the other hand, was absolutely lying.
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He died of a stroke on Jan. 7th. It's quite likely the stress and trauma of the insurrection overwhelmed him. As far as whether the insurrection "caused" his death, I believe it's fair to say it was "likely a contributing factor".
Re: The NY Times, masters of lies (Score:2, Troll)
No one arrested on Jan 6 was charged with insurrection
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Yet.
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Yeah, and any time a school principal dies, we charge misbehaving pupils with murder.
I'm pretty sure that if a bunch of those "misbehaving pupils" had assaulted the principal, and sprayed bear spray right in his face, there would be charges under normal circumstances. They would vary by jurisdiction, but in some cases they would be some degree of murder.
Lies around Brian Siknick (Score:3, Interesting)
Whether or not this actually happened to the officer is irrelevant. What's relevant is that NYTimes lied.
And then the other Democrats lied — listing the fictitious fire-extinguisher in the official document impeaching Trump. The lies are now part of the Congressional Record [congress.gov].
They knew they were lying — as revealed by both the secrecy over his autopsy and the cremation
Ha, "party of liars" (Score:2)
Hahaha, "party of liars". That's rich.
Meanwhile the Republican party is now dominated by Trump https://www.washingtonpost.com... [washingtonpost.com] . Thirty thousand lies or misleading comments made during his 4 year presidency.
My favorite was one of his first where he claimed to have had the largest inauguration crowd ever even in the face of photos of Obama's compared to his from right around the same time of day shows at least 50% more people.
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Whether or not this actually happened to the officer is irrelevant. What's relevant is that NYTimes lied.
It seems to be pretty directly relevant to the analogy that _you_ provided. I realize you were just doing that continuous downplaying thing where the insurrectionist mob were just innocuous "tourists" or "misbehaving pupils". The reality is that there was a hard-fought series of battles that took place.
As far as the New York Times lying, did they? Can you demonstrate them lying? Or did they just mistake officer Sicknick for another officer who very definitely did have a fire extinguisher thrown at his head?
Tu quoque, eh? (Score:2)
First of all, thank you for not disputing, NYTimes actually did lie — and that Congressional Democrats did run with that lie.
We can now examine your "Tu quoque" defense of the lying Democrats...
By the standards applied to Trump — routinely accused of lying simply for not having evidence, or based on legitimate opinion — NYTimes article on Officer Siknick alone is a dozen lies in one day. And this sub-thread shows
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If applying bear spray can be said to have killed him — justifying accusing those applying for murder — than any such application, that, luckily, does not result in a killing is attempted murder.
Hence my request for you to cite prosecutions for attempted murder of anyone, who used bear spray on a public official, be they a policeman or a school principal.
Yada
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First of all, thank you for not disputing, NYTimes actually did lie — and that Congressional Democrats did run with that lie.
My omission of the topic should not be construed as me agreeing with the validity of your claims. I just don't care to do the leg work right now to verify them and research the subject.
WaPo's operation was a partisan hit-factory — promptly shut down after Trump left office [washingtontimes.com]. You're defending Democrats of NY Times by citing Democrats at Washington Post? Seriously?
So then show me the lies in this specific article then. I'm sure if we could both look at the list the Washington Post used we could agree together that a few hundred were probably false claims. It still wouldn't change the fact that he lied almost as many times as he had hot meals as president.
Whether or not it was true, no public policy or judicial proceedings were based on that claim — nor was it intended as such a basis...
You read WAY more into that com
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Reading your post is fascinating, in a horrifying sort of way. You're so far down the rabbit hole, you've come out on the other side into a mirror world where everything is the reverse of reality.
Take your "murder of an unarmed protester". A large crowd, many of them armed, break through a police line guarding the congress and force their way into the capitol. Some of them were publicly stating their intent to kill members of congress. Some of them were carrying tools clearly brought along for doing exa
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If applying bear spray can be said to have killed him — justifying accusing those applying for murder — than any such application, that, luckily, does not result in a killing is attempted murder.
Hence my request for you to cite prosecutions for attempted murder of anyone, who used bear spray on a public official, be they a policeman or a school principal.
As I said, that's nonsense, because a reasonable person would not think that just spraying someone with pepper spray would be likely to kill them. However, a reasonable person should know that there is the possibility that it could kill them. So, it could be reckless disregard for human life, but that's not necessarily a specific offense across all jurisdictions.
Basically, its attempted murder when there is a clear attempt to kill, whereas most jurisdictions recognize it as murder when it does kill, even w
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Which doesn't show that they are any better. Are they? (Evidence would be nice.)
The real "masters of lies" are the TV stations which like by selective omission from genuine photographs. (OK, they also tell other lies, but I don't count most of those as masterful.) Cropping is a legitimate artistic process, but when you use it to present news, it's a lie.
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I also personally have an issue with the post because they took a photograph a relative took, wrote a completely different story from the reason he took it that made him look like a raging asshole and included
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Name one lie. Should be easy if they have been caught 100s of times as you say.
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He literally just named one in his post. Do try to keep up with the conversation please.
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OK, so now the question is what the hell is he talking about. I see no link, I can't find any information about fabricated stories. There is some controversy over if the Post should have published a picture of a person about to die, but that isn't anything to do with what was said.
So far, I consider the above a word salad, and not actual evidence of a lie, so I am looking for more information about this supposed lie.
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Or ya know, you could just google it yourself.
https://www.politifact.com/per... [politifact.com]
https://www.washingtonpost.com... [washingtonpost.com]
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/27... [cnn.com]
Those are just the first three non redundant stories I found.
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As an aside, this is in comparison to the NYT, which supported Hitler, which to me is the far worse lie.
https://www.openculture.com/20... [openculture.com]
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So did Germany! I suppose modern Germans are all bad too, right?
You're really grasping at straws when you cite 80 year old events to try to tarnish the newspaper's reputation.
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I cited stories less than 12 months old to "tarnish" it. And they were both major — with implications to both public policy and judicial proceedings.
The inaccuracies you found in the Post were either inconsequential in comparison and/or the reporter responsible has resigned. No such repercussions happened to NYTimes — as long as you don't say "Nîgger" [washingtonpost.com], you will not be fired by the "paper of record".
But the point h
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I cited stories less than 12 months old to "tarnish" it. And they were both major — with implications to both public policy and judicial proceedings.
Well we're not talking about the New York Times at this point in the thread, we're talking about the New York Post so good for you.
The inaccuracies you found in the Post were either inconsequential in comparison and/or the reporter responsible has resigned. No such repercussions happened to NYTimes — as long as you don't say "Nîgger" [washingtonpost.com], you will not be fired by the "paper of record".
What the heck are you talking about, all I did in the above was point out how stupid it is to cite the Times' 80 year old support of Hitler as a mark against it. Are you responding to other posts I made in this thread? Keep the conversation tidy by keeping your responses tied to the posts you're responding to.
But the point here is not to defend the NY Post. It was to impeach NY Times as a credible source on anything having to do with politics, such as the "MAGA phone".
And I entered the conversation at a later point when the topic changed
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Not keeping up with the conversation, are you?..
So you admit being late to the conversation, but are telling others to "Keep up"? Wow...
I think, we are done here. Remember to logout...
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They told a whopper with a completely fabricated story about Kamala Harris [cnn.com] with the author resigning over being forced to write it despite knowing it to be false.
They've also claimed Biden pressured Ukraine over Shokin to assist Burisma, which is demonstrably false [cnn.com].
And while I'm sure you're brainwashed out of it, but their various articles about Hunter Bidens laptop and the Mueller report wer
Re: The NY Times, masters of lies (Score:3)
Fortunately, NYT hammers me with nags and popups so I don't even get to see the lies.
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If they are so counter factual, it should be easy to point out something that was false that the NYP has published.
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Scammers - sucker alert. You've got one here who'll believe *anything*.
Re:The NY Times, masters of lies (Score:4)
Funny how you missed this article from USA Today two days later that said the laptop wasn't Russian disinfo, that that was actually a lie.
https://www.usatoday.com/story... [usatoday.com]
Not sure what you are trying to imply with this line now, since as far as I have seen, the Hunter Biden story has been found to be true.
The same tabloid paper that somehow got a hold of Hunter Biden's laptop with damning evidence LOL
Re: The NY Times, masters of lies (Score:2)
Didn't Trump, Obama, and Bush Jr also have a convienient laptop filled with damning evidence against ttemselves?
This is becoming a well established trope, the magic laptop filled with potential political career ending dirt.
He's not unintelligent (Score:5, Insightful)
Now the question is if he'll be smart enough to buy a couple of endorsements to make sure the faithful throw money at him to buy a lower quality product at a higher price.
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In fact dealing with these corporation. are not hard. In 1982 the US said that any approved device can be plugged to the phone socket, creating innovation and affordable phone. Of course you can now buy a number of phones to connect to the wireless network, and even Sat phones. But as now, there were a bunch of junk phone
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But I thought the people who used iPhones or the Expensive Android phones were the mindless sheep?
Or perhaps people are a complex animal with a wide range of needs and desires, so they may choose to buy and use a different product for a various sets of reasons.
However the GOP has been working on concentrating their base, around the Under educated working class, and also the Elderly and trying to keep them fired up, to vote for them in high numbers. Having such a captive base, is easy for a person off for a
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But I thought the people who used iPhones or the Expensive Android phones were the mindless sheep?
Keep in mind, the same people buying this "freedumb phone" are the ones snorting Sheep Dip rather than get a vaccination...
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Keep in mind those where were buying iPhone, were also eating tide-pods a few years prior.
The political party that you join by checking a box on a form, without any other sort or requirement or agreement to set of standards. Is not an effective correlation to ones intellect or lack of such.
Re: He's not unintelligent (Score:2)
There's only one political party trying to politicize the mundanity of cellphone vendor choice.
Re: He's not unintelligent (Score:2)
And the ones buying the "Freedom Phone" were likely skateboarding off of roofs and into a cheap inflatable kids' pool because "I am so going to be on Jackass DUDE!".
Ho hum, whatever. Kids do stupid things. We hope when they grow up they stop doing stupid things.
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I believe you are missing the point.
Stupid crosses many boundaries, if you assume the stupid stuff that a few people do is representative of the whole, you too are being part of the problem causing such divisive polarization.
You may actually be surprised while a particular demographic may be more likely to be doing this thing, they will probably be a fair number who are in your demographic that may do it as well.
My heroes! (Score:2)
We've learned the past 5 years that the USA is full of gullible idiots. If you tell them what they want to hear, they'll line up for more. Ignoring or skipping critical thinking and cross-checking is a badge of honor to them. I've been kicking around ideas to use their gullibility for my own profit. This team is an inspiration.
And no, I don't feel guilty for bilking these morons. They are putting us at infection risk, climate risk
Re: My heroes! (Score:2)
I admit I was kicking myself after the whole Harold Camping rapture nonsense because I didn't go and aquire the things people were giving away because "I won't need them anymore".
Grifters... (Score:5, Insightful)
Grifters seem to have coalesced around 45, arguably the biggest grifter of them all. This guy is no different. Get something cheap and made in China, surround it with flags and market it to people. The fact that it is a phone which may (or may not) be relaying confidential data to China makes this kinda funny.
That he promotes this phone as freeing the buyers from the reliance on Big Tech, and replacing wig tech with himself, is tragic.
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People who will vote for such an obvious fraud as TFG are obviously a market for all kinds of scams. How many have we seen? I don't have a count but we will see many more.
My prior favorite was Fund the Border Wall but this one is actually better because it delivered pennies on the dollar.
It's easy to sell things when facts don't matter.. (Score:2)
If you only care about what you "believe" and facts don't matter, it's easy to sell people anything...
Librem 5? (Score:4, Informative)
Have you ever heard about it [puri.sm]?
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Unfortunately, while their hearts seem to be in the right place, the phone itself seems really quite awful, even at half the price. Anemic quad-core CPU, a paltry 3GiB RAM, cameras of unknown quality, and an unforgivably low-res 720p display. And for this they want USD$900.00.
For that money, you could buy three refurbished Samsung Galaxy S10s and re-flash them with LineageOS.
Their laptop [puri.sm], OTOH, is far more competetive.
LOL! It's probably up to the brim ... (Score:2)
... with asian malware, ROM-loaded onto it by some factory in a chinese province.
Can't wait 'till some cheeky US 10th grader hacks these en-masse and uploads republican hooker and pr0n contacts to the interwebs. :-)
Repost? (Score:2)
Repost?
Right-wing Activist's $500 'Freedom Phone' Actually Cheap Rebranded Android Model Made in China [slashdot.org]
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Well, it would be very hard for a very small company to write its own phone OS. Even Linux hasn't been that successful, unless you count Android, which is really a very separate beast. And you *know* that Apple wouldn't let them tamper with the Apple OS. So of course it's Android.
Just goes to show (Score:4, Insightful)
If someone is dumb enough to buy it, someone is smart enough to make it.
Don't forget ... (Score:2)
*Devices with baseband processors that they can't leverage the DMA into reading/writing anything they want on your phone.
Yeah, it's those damn monopolies. (Score:5, Funny)
It's taken 15 years for smartphones to get where they are, plus development time before they were released. In that time millions of people have come together to evolve the hardware and software to fit a particular outcome. Some newb with no experience in the industry bungies in with a sales pitch for a concept phone, having no hardware or software in place, and ... it turns out to be hard? What? MUST BE THE MONOPOLIES!
Gonna be honest, with the entire might of an Apple or Google behind you, this shit is hard. For his next trick, he should do something easier, like DYI appendectomy kits.
[Though the flip from trying to actually build to instead just throwing a custom wallpaper and app store on someone else's phone is totally on point for these guys. Maybe it should come with a multivitamin subscription?]
Cookie cutter tale (Score:2)
People get worked up over X, dude comes in to profit by selling Y, people find out Y isn't all that it's cracked up to be.
Conservatives lie?! (Score:2)
I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you!
Another one ... (Score:2)
... that your first impression spidey-sense should be yelling "Don't buy a used car from this dude"
Erik Finman *is* a political tool (Score:2)
Typical GOP response: we will win by any means necessary, even if it requires cheating or violating laws, and then once we're in power, we'll govern accordingly: poorly, using whatever means we have to direct profits to us, and punishments to the nation. Fuck those guys.
Yup (Score:2)
Because bigger always means better. I have no idea what sort of phone this guy is putting out but 15 midwesterners could undoubtedly produce a more secure phone than Apple. Even if they weren't midwesterners, Apple phones are compromised by design and automatically backup to a de
Not A Strange Tale (Score:2)
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> More of the childish name calling I've come to expect from liberals.
Partisans. There are masses of loud and obnoxious people on both sides venting their anger and outrage on "the other team" instead of finding common cause. It's almost as if they think having conflict is the reason the two sides exist.
There are others who understand that the sides don't exist for a reason, but as a result of differing opinions and preferences, but still want the damn governments (local, state, federal) to just work. Do
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...There are masses of loud and obnoxious people on both sides venting their anger and outrage on "the other team" instead of finding common cause. It's almost as if they think having conflict is the reason the two sides exist.
The two-party political system in the US, exists for exactly that reason. Without the ability to constantly point fingers at the other "side", how else would they get away with the massive amount of corruption behind the scenes?
The two-party political system in the US serves as one big mass distraction device for ignorant cheerleaders championing for some end-all-be-all "win" that will never ever happen. Has for decades now. Anyone claiming otherwise is either that stupid, or is a politician getting rich
Re:I am about as conservative as one can get. (Score:4, Interesting)
Except we don't have a two party system.
But because two distinct parties established themselves early, they've made it nigh impossible for a 3rd party to be established and actually get folks elected on the national level.
Imagine that,.... two private corporations in charge of the political process of this country...
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We have a few. [wikipedia.org] One even gave us a presidential candidate [wikipedia.org] in the last election.
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No other serious parties though
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Except we don't have a two party system.
But because two distinct parties established themselves early, they've made it nigh impossible for a 3rd party to be established and actually get folks elected on the national level.
Imagine that,.... two private corporations in charge of the political process of this country...
The hell do you mean "imagine"? You act as if Government doesn't take their marching orders from the Donor Class and their literal armies of lobbyists. Corporations run the US now. Government is merely responsible for it.
And we DO have a two-party system, according to the sales brochure. Just ask any ignorant cheerleader rooting for their "side" to "win".
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Re:I am about as conservative as one can get. (Score:5, Insightful)
I was also first in line for my Wuflu shots
More of the childish name calling I've come to expect from liberals.
As conservative as one can get, so you say.
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You realize you are also guilty of making assumptions on a sample size of one don't you? The only difference is that the sample size of one that you are using is yourself.
I don't think it is just the liberals that are guilty of name calling either.
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Well you are doing the same that the "Liberals" are doing. Grouping a bunch of people based on a political stance into a caricature kinda made up by taking all the negative traits of that group and saying that is what they are.
Not all Conservatives will buy the Freedom phone, just because some guy tells them that it is the Conservative thing to do, but a lot will.
Not all Conservatives will avoid getting the Covid Vaccine, or not wear a mask, or bully others who do. Just because there were some contaminator
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I use whatever phone at the store was cheapest, and I wouldn't even consider buying this weirdo's piece of crap. I was also first in line for my Wuflu shots when I became eligible for them. Like all the clickbait political drivel posted here, it's just made up bullshit, or a sample size of one.
But that doesn't stop the name calling. Posted above, "Mindless sheep to be fleeced". More of the childish name calling I've come to expect from liberals.
I find it humorous that you are trying to make a point that not all conservatives are the same and cry about being called names, then in your last sentence you do exactly what you are accusing others of doing. You're just another typical hypocrite.
The true conservative phone (Score:2)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik... [wikipedia.org]
No social media, no Google, no Facebook. And it's conservative in the purest sense of the word.
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this weirdo's piece of crap
Wuflu shots
clickbait political drivel
come to expect from liberals
childish name calling
Indeed.
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FTFS:
Finman hired engineers to strip it of any sign of Google and load it with apps from conservative social networks and news outlets.
So, yes, "Conservative" phone. I suppose somebody else could do the same thing but load it with liberal social networks and news outlets.
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Well the issue is how he targets the Modern Conservative, with 'merica and freedom, without much detail. Because academic and more detailed explanation makes the position one might have seem less black and white. Also the Modern Conservative very binary position on things where something is the Best or it is pure Crap, makes it easy convince people to go into a direction that if it weren't attached to the political statement they may actually have to think and make their own choice.
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Yeah...and American phone built in China, just like an iPhone is, but with less quality control.
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20 years ago, the GOP was all about free trade, and globalization. Back then when you think of republican, you thought of good foreign relations, and trade. The political parties had swapped on that issue.
I think it is mostly due to reduced influence of Unions with the Democratic party, and the rising tend of having things like it use to be back in the 1950's within the Republican Party.
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Say "America" and "Freedom" and the morons yip and yap and run in circles like excited dogs.
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So Mr. Finman hired engineers to strip it of any sign of Google and load it with apps from conservative social networks and news outlets.
The fact that he has the phones loaded with conservative social network and news apps kind of tilts this from an everyone phone to a conservative phone.
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The word you're looking for is a communist phone. "These are the only approved sources of information you will see."