[FRIAM] Freedom Phone

[cody dooderson]

I recently visited a tiny town in the western slope of Colorado. The small
town does not have it's own newspaper, so from what I could tell the people
read something called the Epoch Times. It appears to me to be blatant right
wing propaganda.
It turns out that the Epoch times is at least partially funded by the
persecuted Chinese religious movement called the Falun Gong. I don't know
much about them other than that they appear to have a serious and
justified problem with China. It suddenly makes more sense why the
republicans in my circle are now so anti China. How did this chinese
religious movement end up allying with the far right media machine?


Cody Smith


On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 12:09 PM Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:

>
> On 7/16/21 9:34 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
>
> The "Freedom Phone" which is supposed to protect your fragile conservative
> egos from the ravages of big tech, turns out to be a $179 retail Shenzhen
> manufactured phone being sold for $499 retail with a generous affiliate cut
> to the right wing mouthpieces willing to promote it.  And it's app store is
> a skin over the google play store.
> https://www.xda-developers.com/freedom-phone-overpriced-smartphone/
>
> I wonder if there's a Guinness world record for number of people in an
> abusive codependency?
>
> I dunno, it seems like by rough measure the entire third world (under
> colonization at some level) and the entire first world
> exploiting/extracting from them would seem to suggest order 8bn ?
>
> I take your point re:  Right Wingnut abusive co-dependency.   Where lies
> the distinction between codependency and co-evolution?  We have spoken here
> before about parasitic symbiotes.  Have our polarized right/left not
> somewhat co-evolved together and are also in-fact codependent to some
> extent?   The  Right *needs* the left to be someone they can "own" in the
> same many men use their wives/children/subordinates/dogs as a place to
> shore up a thinning ego?
>
>
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