Original en inglés más abajo.

Gran resumen, pero no estoy de acuerdo.

Ni los derechos (que estaban presentes en la época medieval) ni las instituciones representativas (que estaban presentes en muchas sociedades) definen la Ilustración. El núcleo de la Ilustración es la idea de que ninguna religión tradicional debe ser la base de la sociedad (y de las leyes), sino que la base de la sociedad (y las leyes) debe ser la «religión» de la libertad y la igualdad. Todo lo demás es secundario. La Ilustración es la herejía cristiana más exitosa (de hecho, hoy en día, la mayoría de los cristianos son creyentes de la religión de la Ilustración sin darse cuenta, ya sea de forma total o parcial). Sin embargo, la Ilustración tiene sus propias herejías (marxismo, corrección política, libertarismo, etc.).

El problema con la religión de la libertad y la igualdad es que es completamente relativista. No se puede basar una sociedad en la libertad, porque la libertad de una persona es la falta de libertad de otra persona (si le das libertad a los homosexuales para exigir que cualquiera hornee un pastel, quitas la libertad de un panadero cristiano de no hornear pasteles en contra de sus creencias). No se puede basar una sociedad en la igualdad: primero, porque la igualdad es imposible y, segundo, porque tratar de promover la igualdad para algunos grupos significa restringir la igualdad para otros grupos (ver personas trans en deportes femeninos).

Entonces, este relativismo significa que ninguna sociedad (y ninguna ley) puede basarse en la libertad y la igualdad, sino en la libertad y la igualdad TAL COMO ES INTERPRETADA SEGÚN UN CONJUNTO DE VALORES (es decir, tal como es interpretada según una religión). Nuestra sociedad da más valor a la autoexpresión de los homosexuales que a la fe cristiana, por lo que nuestras leyes tienen que proteger a los homosexuales que quieren obligar a un panadero cristiano a hornear un pastel gay. Una sociedad de la Ilustración con valores cristianos (digamos, Estados Unidos del siglo XIX) habría dado más valor a la fe cristiana que a la autoexpresión gay, por lo que las leyes habrían protegido al panadero cristiano.

Es decir, en una sociedad de la Ilustración, hay dos religiones: la religión oficial es la religión de la libertad y la igualdad, que está consagrada en la Constitución, el juramento de fidelidad y otros rituales. Pero la verdadera religión es el conjunto de valores sobre los que se basan las leyes y la sociedad. Hace cien años, esta era la religión cristiana. Hoy es la religión de la corrección política.

En Estados Unidos, esta religión real fue el cristianismo algún tiempo después de la Ilustración (digamos, después de la revolución estadounidense que rechazó el cristianismo como religión oficial y adoptó la religión de la Ilustración), solo porque la mayoría era cristiana. Pero esto no podría durar para siempre.

Dado que la religión oficial es moralmente relativista, significa que no existe una base oficial para el bien y el mal. Entonces, si la mayoría vota un mal o los jueces decretan un mal, el mal es la nueva política del estado (piense en el aborto). Esto entra en conflicto con el cristianismo, que es moralmente absolutista (el bien y el mal están definidos y son independientes de las opiniones de la gente y del sistema político). Cada decisión no cristiana (ya sea tomada por jueces o votantes) terminó alejando a Estados Unidos del cristianismo hasta que la religión real terminó siendo algo completamente diferente del cristianismo (es decir, la corrección política).

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Great summary but I happen to disagree.

Neither rights (which were present in medieval times) nor representative institutions (which were present in many societies) define the Enlightenment. The core of the Enlightenment is the idea that no traditional religion should be the basis of society (and laws) but the basis of society (and laws) should be the «religion» of freedom and equality. All the rest is secondary. The Enlightenment is the most successful Christian heresy (in fact, nowadays, most Christians are partial or total believers of the Enlightenment religion without noticing). However, the Enlightenment has its own heresies (Marxism, political correctness, libertarianism, etc.).

The problem with the religion of freedom and equality is that it is completely relativistic. You can’ t base a society upon freedom, because the freedom of a person is the lack of freedom of another person (if you give freedom to gays to demand a cake to be baked by anyone, you take the freedom of a Christian baker not to bake cakes against their beliefs). You can’t base a society upon equality: first, because equality is impossible and, second, because trying to advance equality for some groups means restricting equality for some other groups (see trans people in female sports).

So this relativism means that no society (no law) can be based on freedom and equality, but on freedom and equality AS INTERPRETED BY A SET OF VALUES (that is, as interpreted by a religion). Our society gives more value to gay self-expression than to Christian belief, so our laws have to protect the gays wanting to force a Christian baker to bake a cake. An Enlightenment society with Christian values (say, 19th century America) would have given more value to Christian belief than to gay self-expression, so laws would have protected the Christian baker.

That is to say, in an Enlightenment society, there are two religions: the official religion is the religion of freedom and equality, which is enshrined in the Constitution, the pledge of allegiance and other rituals. But the real religion is the set of values upon which the laws and the society are based. One hundred years ago, this was the Christian religion. Today is the political correct religion.

In America, this real religion was Christianity some time after the Enlightenment (say, after the American revolution that rejected Christianity as the official religion and adopted the Enlightenment religion), only because the majority was Christian. But this couldn’t last forever. Since the official religion is morally relativistic, it means that there is no official basis for good and evil. So if the majority votes an evil or the judges decree an evil, the evil is the new policy of the state (think abortion). This enters in conflict with Christianity, which is morally absolutistic (good and evil are defined and are independent from the people’s opinions and from the political system). Each non-Christian decision (whether taken by judges or by voters) ended up moving America away from Christianity until the real religion ended up being something completely different from Christianity (political correctness).

A reader with the alphanumeric name of dgg3536 writes the following. I repost the whole as a guest column, with no further comment from me, save for a silent ovation of agreement:

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Arianism nearly swallowed the Church, then it disappeared. Heresies burn themselves out with time. Protestantism is certainly sputtering at this point, but at the same time, more and more Protestants are becoming Catholic, where they aren’t apostatizing. One often finds green shoots among the ashes.

But on the issues of Classical Liberalism and Marxism, I think the situation is a bit more of a tangle than it first appears. As someone mentioned, the nominalism of the Late Middle Ages certainly contributed to the genetic makeup of the Left, but if we’re looking for concrete precedents, then Machiavelli’s The Prince is a prime example.

There you have utility as virtue, the will to power, stability as government’s first end, and the all-powerful secular state. And it circulated in manuscript form before Luther nailed up his Ninety-Five Theses.

More’s Utopia is both a witness to the intellectual culture of the period and eerily anticipates future pathologies. Later in the 16th century, you see skepticism in full flower in Montaigne’s Essays and witness Shakespeare wrestling with skepticism and functional postmodernism in his plays.

By the middle of the 17th century, Louis XIV, the Sun King, had dissolved the medieval representative institution of the Estates General and moved to centralize more power in the crown. It was later conflicts over reconstituting the Estates that led to the French Revolution.

When the Reformation really kicked off, it didn’t create those forces, but the fracturing of the Church did unleash them, and some of the intellectual currents within Protestantism were taken in directions that contributed to Leftism. After more than a century of upheaval and bloodletting, the Treaty of Westphalia, even as it established the nation-state system in 1648, marked the end of the Wars of Religion and the functional end of Christendom as a political framework.

Classical Liberalism does have flaws, but any version of it may have been doomed from the very beginning with weakened foundations. At the outset, Liberalism was simply an ad hoc policy of toleration, adopted as a pragmatic measure to the intractable problems of the Reformation, such as the Wars of Religion. The drain of blood and treasure couldn’t continue forever. It was only given some kind of intellectual coherence later on.

If Rousseau inaugurated the birth of the intellectual Left, the Revolution in France might mark the inauguration of the ideological Left, the broad social and political program of Revolution, Utopia, and Radical Autonomy. If we contrast the American Revolution, we see the difference. Their aims were not to remake their society, but retain their customary way of life, with its institutions and laws, and they appealed to their political tradition as Englishman as precedent. Even through the Reformation, England retained her medieval institutions to a surprising degree, and when Englishman settled North America, they brought their customs with them, and then modified them to suit local conditions. When it came time to revise our Constitution at the Second Convention, the Founders had roughly a century and a half of colonial experience to draw upon, along European and Greco-Roman traditions. And while the Enlightenment had its influence, the Ancients and Medievals had theirs. Classical thought (especially Cicero) left its impression and the then-contemporary neo-Aristotelian Thomas Reid (who was anti-Humean and anti-Cartesian) had a wide and significant impact on Founders like Jefferson.

I don’t think we appreciate just how much of what the Enlightenment credited to itself was actually born in the Middle Ages. Individual rights emerged not from political debates, but religious controversies. Representative institutions like the “[French] Estates General…the States General of the Netherlands, the Parliament of England, the Estates of Parliament of Scotland, the Cortes of Portugal or Spain, the Imperial Diet (“Reichstag”) of the Holy Roman Empire…and the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates,” were all born in the Middle Ages. In the English Parliament, the House of Commons held the purse strings as a kind of de facto veto over the King, and the House of Lords and Commons together deposed Richard II in 1399. Legal protections like the presumption of innocence, the reliance upon evidence and eyewitness testimony, and proportionality in punishment came from medieval legal reforms. The invention of the universities created the international culture of discourse and inquiry. And so on.

It occurs to me that the early American Republic may give us a window on what a non-Leftist Liberalism might’ve looked like, if Christendom had followed a path of reform closer to what Erasmus envisioned, rather than Luther. And while I don’t fully sign on to a “Post-Liberal Conservatism,” I would like to put our political tradition on more robust philosophical foundations (which I believe were partly there to begin with).

There’s much to the Middle Ages that was good and wise, but I’m often frustrated with some traditionalist Catholics who uncritically romanticize medieval life and monarchical institutions without first distinguishing what kind of monarchy they’re talking about (feudal, absolutist, constitutional, etc.) and without realizing just how historically contingent much of the Medieval system was, or the downsides of some of their institutions. More frustrating still is that some of those traditionalists are rather selective in what traditions they pay attention to–they would cheerfully impose a monarchy which is alien to the history and traditions of our culture, ignoring Aristotle’s guidance that a system of government must be balanced with the character of a people. Still further, some of them would embrace quasi-Leftist systems, such as Distributism, in the name of reestablishing “tradition.”

Medieval political institutions were essentially a Christian amelioration of pagan Germanic tribal government, filtered through Roman civic law. Traditions emerged as working solutions to problems as they arose, and then evolved with time. Some medieval institutions mercifully died, such the manorial system giving way in the 12th and 13th centuries to smaller privately-held farms, which led to higher crop yields and coincided with the economic rise of the commons. Other institutions were a mixed bag, such as the guilds. Whatever they contributed in terms of collegiality, community, mutual assistance, and the dignity of their trade, they were also a source of corruption and entitlement, having a stranglehold on trades and crafts. And medieval law had price controls and regulations that would warm the cockles of any modern bureaucrat’s heart. On the flip side, they were freer in some very real ways. It was “one of the most loosely organized societies in human history” and “quasi-libertarian.” You could go places and do things that you need written permission for nowadays.

So, if I had to sum things up, I would say we need to borrow more of the wisdom of the past, but translate it into our present and balance it with the good things we do have. Or to quote Jaroslav Pelikan, “Tradition is the living faith of the dead; traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. Tradition lives in conversation with the past, while remembering where we are and when we are and that it is we who have to decide. Traditionalism supposes that nothing should ever be done for the first time, so all that is needed to solve any problem is to arrive at the supposedly unanimous testimony of this homogenized tradition.”

«Against this, the secular Right have nothing positive to offer. »

Agreed.

At the end of the day, «religion» is only a word. It is true that Leftism is not a true religion in the sense that it is only an excuse and rationalization for evil (selfishness).

It is a religion in the sense that it has blasphemy laws and we live in a theocracy of the Leftist religion. There is no separation between Leftist religion and State, but the main goal of the State is to enforce and evangelize the Leftist religion. The laws are based on Leftism, the same way the laws are based on [the other monotheist religion] in an [other monotheism] theocracy.

Saying that Leftism is a religion is the first step to awaken people that have been lied every day since the time they were born. Because, otherwise, Leftism (freedom, equality, non-discrimination, democracy) is presented as a neutral: as the obvious truth and decency. All the other worldviews are labelled as «religions» and hence, partial, private and debatable. But Leftism is not debatable: it is only the basic truth and decency that can be seen by anyone whose brain has not been washed with religions.

It is a useful weapon with my students, who have been brainwashed with school teachers that are fanatic zealots of political correctness. After telling them that Leftism is a religion, I add «and the goal of life is to find out which religion is true and follow it». Of course, I spend the rest of the course attacking Leftism in one thousand ways.

I cannot go further because I would be accused of violating the neutrality of the University. The professor of Philosophy teaches Leftism every day, because it is seen as neutral. I cannot teach Christianity because it is seen as partial. Do you notice a pattern? Saying Leftism is not a religion makes it entitled to special treatment.

I understand that you write for people like me, who are outside the official discourse. If you say that Leftism is not even a religion but a pseudo-religion, like you do, this means a step forward in the discovery of truth for people like us. Of course, you are right, but saying that Leftism is a religion can be a useful weapon in the first stages of deprogramming.

https://lexic.co/barfblog/millennials-dying-children

Soy uno de los millennials más viejos. Nos está pasando algo aterrador. Nos estamos muriendo mientras aún somos niños. Los hombres nos estamos quedando calvos y la carne de las mujeres empieza a colgar. Tenemos el cabello canoso. Nuestros ojos se arrugan cuando sonreímos. Tenemos depósitos de grasa antiestéticos que no van a ninguna parte. Nuestras articulaciones revientan por las mañanas. Nos lesionamos si nos damos la vuelta demasiado rápido. Nuestra visión se está desvaneciendo. Nuestros reflejos se están ralentizando. Muchos de nosotros conocemos a alguien de nuestra edad que ha muerto de cáncer, de un ataque cardíaco o de alguna otra enfermedad de la vejez que ocasionalmente afecta a las personas maduras.

Y todavía somos niños.

Los más viejos de nuestra generación nos acercamos rápidamente a los 40. Somos la generación menos casada y menos fecunda de la historia. De hecho, ¡solo el 30% de las personas menores de 40 años están casadas! Los eruditos  culpan a las condiciones económicas, en gran parte porque los eruditos pasan años aprendiendo a no ver lo que está justo en frente de sus caras. Comenzamos a alcanzar la mayoría de edad en 2003, y las condiciones económicas no eran tan malas como las de los años 30, 40 o 70, cuando la gente tenía pocos problemas para casarse y procrear. Sin embargo, aquí estamos, demasiado viejos para  disfrutar de la infancia, sintiendo que la muerte se arrastra hacia nosotros. Los videojuegos se han vuelto aburridos. Los maratones de televisión son asfixiantes. El caramelo sabe a ceniza en nuestra boca. Nos estamos suicidando y consumiendo antidepresivos a tasas récord. Intentamos acumular aún más y no nos hace felices. No sabemos por qué y no sabemos cómo llegamos aquí.

Bueno, os lo diré.

Durante toda mi vida, el único mensaje que recibí de la escuela, la iglesia, la universidad y los medios de comunicación fue que cada decisión que tomé, desde qué carrera seguir, hasta dónde vivía, y si decidía casarme, tenía como objetivo conseguir el máximo placer en la vida. Es cierto que, como fui criado en una iglesia conservadora, se me advirtió contra la fornicación y el abuso de drogas, pero esto se justificó porque se dijo que interfería con la buena vida. En la década de 1990, no había diferencia entre cristianos y no cristianos en ese esquema general. Tanto los cristianos como los no cristianos estaban igualmente horrorizados ante la idea de que una joven brillante dejara de «maximizando su potencial», lo que significaba dedicar 40 horas a la semana a estar en un cubículo. Ambos advirtieron a las mujeres que no se casaran demasiado jóvenes, porque el matrimonio podría interrumpir una carrera prometedora. Los evangélicos, por su parte, se entregaron a la piadosa ficción de que los jóvenes solteros de 25 años de la iglesia eran todos vírgenes. Pero aún así, todos estuvieron de acuerdo en que debes tratar al mundo como si fuera tu patio de recreo.

Nuestros mayores boomers nunca aludieron a que nuestra toma de decisiones debía de tener en cuenta cualquier tipo de contexto o responsabilidad social . ¿Cuál es el propósito social del matrimonio? Los boomers conservadores no pudieron decirlo. Apelaron a la «tradición» sin entender por qué existía, a un literalismo bíblico que era tan insensato como pintoresco, en un mundo donde su propio concepto autoindulgente del matrimonio había llevado a tasas de divorcio récord en los años setenta y ochenta, y había llevado a mi generación a crecer alternando entre padres con cada fin de semana. Los boomers ya habían sentado las bases del matrimonio como un ejercicio de autocomplacencia; el matrimonio homosexual vino como consecuencia. Si el matrimonio tiene un propósito social (canalizar y dirigir la sexualidad humana de manera que promueva la cohesión social y provea recursos para la nueva generación), entonces el matrimonio homosexual es una tontería. Es un absurdo. ¿Pero si es solo para «ser feliz con la persona que amas»? Entonces, ¿por qué no?

De manera similar, no nos dijeron que el propósito de un trabajo es mantener a tu familia. Si ese es el objetivo de trabajar, entonces se evapora cualquier tipo de imperativo moral para incorporar a las mujeres al trabajo. ¿Por qué querrían estar allí? Encuéntrame una mujer que sueñe con proporcionar un auto nuevo para su esposo, o que sienta satisfacción al saber que su dinero será bien gastado por su esposo para los hijos, o que sienta que vale la pena pasar en la oficina para poder llevarse al esposo y a los niños ir a la playa durante un fin de semana. Nos dijeron que el trabajo sería «satisfactorio», que sería otra fuente inagotable de diversión para nosotros. Resulta que el trabajo apesta. Nadie puede explicar realmente por qué el abuelo estaba dispuesto a conducir de pueblo en pueblo vendiendo aspiradoras, porque dar el mismo discursito por milésima vez no es satisfactorio en absoluto (ninguno de nosotros pensó en preguntarle a la abuela si envidiaba los largos días del abuelo en el carretera cuando estaba en casa con los niños). Los millennials están aburridos y enojados en el lugar de trabajo. Nos dijeron que la plenitud estaría allí. En cambio, es … trabajo. Y como no tenemos familias, no tiene ningún propósito.

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Es triste ver a mi generación colapsar en el nihilismo y el miedo mientras nuestros cuerpos comienzan el proceso de morir. Los hombres se convierten en bichos, viven para consumir, llenando estante tras estante con juguetes en los que sus cerebros adultos no pueden divertirse, porque no saben nada más que hacer. Las mujeres están en pánico, tratando desesperadamente de aferrarse a su juventud que se evapora, tratando de demostrarse a sí mismas que una mujer puede ser tan sexy y seductora a los 35 como a los 23. Hay mucha rabia contra los Boomers, pero es sin rumbo y desinformado. En su mayoría, la gente está enojada porque «derrumbaron la economía» o «destruyeron el clima», como si la inflación de dos dígitos y el smog sofocante de 1978 fueran mucho mejores.

No, lo que nos hicieron los Boomers fue lo que les hicieron sus padres. Nos arruinaron al tratar de darnos la vida que nunca tuvieron. Nuestros abuelos crecieron en la Depresión y complacían en exceso a sus hijos con juguetes y atención hasta el punto en que los boomers no lograron desarrollar ningún sentido real de autoconciencia. ¿Y qué, puede preguntar, les faltaba a los Boomers? Los Boomers vieron truncados sus idílicos años de adolescencia. WW2 & Silents todavía dominaba el mundo e hizo que nuestros padres se pusieran corbata, fueran a trabajar y sirvieran a The Man antes de que estuvieran listos para dejar de jugar. El hombre promedio de los Boomer recuerda el verano del 69 con nostalgia, deseando que hubiera durado para siempre, un poco resentido de que solo unos años después, conducía un Toyota de mierda, su esposa lo regañaba y escuchaba los gritos de un bebé. . La mujer Boomer piensa que si no fuera por ese matrimonio y esos bebés que tuvo cuando tenía 26 años, habría sido editora de una revista de moda. Ella nunca habría tenido esa barriga de bebé. Ella habría sido joven y sexy para siempre.

Los boomers tienen una mentalidad perpetua de adolescencia que sus padres nunca entendieron, y nos criaron para ser los eternos adolescentes que nunca llegaron a ser. Cuando tienes 17 años, la idea de comprar cosas geniales, tener sexo sin consecuencias y consumir contenido multimedia por el resto de tu vida suena fantástica. No entiendes que cuando tengas 40, ya no querrás eso. Hay toneladas de chicos de mi edad y más jóvenes, que usan camisetas de Star Wars, coleccionan Marvel Funko Pops y se han hecho vasectomías, y no tienen idea de por qué son tan miserables. Hay mujeres de mi edad que acaban de romper con otro novio residente de tres años y no tienen hijos. Así que aquí estamos y nos estamos desmoronando. Nuestros padres nos inculcaron un egoísmo totalizador que nunca pudieron consentir, asegurándonos que el matrimonio y la familia «simplemente llegarían» cuando «llegara el momento adecuado». En lo que a ellos respecta, eso es lo que sucede. Excepto que «simplemente les pasó» por todo el capital social de las generaciones anteriores que todavía les quedaba, que arrasaron. Ahora mi generación es absolutamente miserable, porque estamos llegando a esa edad en la que su cerebro cambia de modo de «consumir y copular» a «preparar a su descendencia para la edad adulta», y no entendemos que eso es lo que realmente está sucediendo. A las mujeres de mi generación se les ha dicho toda su vida que la soledad es un trastorno psicológico, que los niños son parásitos y que agotarse durante 40 horas a la semana en el trabajo es el sentido de la vida. Resulta que seguir viviendo como si fueras un adolescente de hecho no lega la eterna juventud. «La edad es solo un número» es el más insidioso de todos los proverbios Boomer.

Para mi generación, realmente no hay un camino de regreso. Todas las instituciones sociales de este país han sido detonadas en la búsqueda del dinero y de uno mismo, o mediante la histérica condena de todo tipo de relación social orgánica como «sexista» o «racista». En las ciudades nadie conoce a nadie. Las asociaciones profesionales y los clubes sociales son prácticamente inexistentes. Nadie conoce ni se preocupa por nadie, y nadie sabe cómo empezar. Es tan enfermizo y retorcido que mi generación usa la palabra «comunidad» para referirse a personas que compran los mismos productos de consumo, como si ir a ver una película significa que eres parte de la «comunidad de Star Wars». Incluso las iglesias se han consolidado en parques temáticos masivos donde masas anónimas de personas van a divertirse; congregaciones de siglos de antigüedad se han cerrado a medida que la gente se mudó al megaplex. Los expertos «conservadores» con muerte cerebral sólo pueden preocuparse por nuestra disminución de la tasa de natalidad en términos de derechos de financiación o PIB; Casi nadie se atreverá a decir que una sociedad con baja fecundidad está fundamentalmente enferma y desordenada.

Los millennials deben aceptar que los valores que nos inculcaron fueron una mierda. No veo que eso suceda, ya que en su mayoría estamos molestos porque no podemos vivir las idílicas vidas de autocomplacencia que nos prometieron los Boomers. Incluso sugerir que el divorcio debería ser más difícil, el matrimonio debería ser más joven y las mujeres fueron creadas para ser madres, no drones de oficina, hace que el Millennial promedio se disuelva en una indignación histérica. Somos la generación que piensa que tener un país es racista y lo más importante de la exploración espacial es asegurarse de que los musulmanes vestidos con hiyab sean parte de ella. Así que probablemente no vamos a salir de eso. Seremos enterrados en ataúdes de Batman, rodeados de nuestros juegos de Xbox. Quizás quien nos entierre finalmente descarte la moralidad de los Boomers.

Empiezo mi comentario con una frase del libro “Dios no mola” de Ulrich Lehrner el cual recomiendo. “Los hijos de Dios sabrán la verdad y la verdad les hará raros. No debemos sorprendernos que nuestros vecinos consideren nuestra fe ofensiva o intolerable.”

Como indica el vídeo de Don Alfonso López vivimos en una época donde la verdad absoluta ha caducado, es algo pasado. Cada persona tiene su verdad siempre que esa verdad coincida con los valores políticamente correctos o sean anticristianos. La ideología laica afirma ser tolerante con las verdades de todo el mundo pero en realidad es una especie de culto evangelizador donde los valores cristianos son intolerables.

Por ejemplo, no se puede dudar que una persona nacida hombre se considere una mujer ya que así lo siente aunque la biología lo contradiga. Su verdad es que es una mujer y tu no puedes negarlo.

En cambio, un pastor protestante no puede predicar públicamente que “Dios sólo creo dos sexos, hombre y mujer”  o que el matrimonio sólo se puede dar entre un hombre y una mujer, como ha  sucedido el pasado mes de abril https://www.infocatolica.com/?t=noticia&cod=40471 . Esa verdad no es tolerable. Es incluso denunciable por delito de odio.

Tampoco otro pastor protestante en Toronto puede “incitar a las personas a ir a la iglesia” y tiene como castigo la cárcel de la que está intentando salir haciendo crowfunding. Podéis ver el vídeo de la detención de esta persona peligrosa en este tweet https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1391171521692028929

Estoy de acuerdo con Vicente en que el objetivo es la destrucción de la sociedad y la cultura occidental cristiana y todo es permisible siempre que ayude a este fin. El fomento al multiculturalismo es un medio muy importante para conseguirlo. Cuando comprendes esto, te das cuenta porqué se fomenta la llegada de ciertas culturas con costumbres que denigran a la mujer o  matan a los homosexuales aunque el feminismo y el fomento de las personas LGTBI sean dos de los dogmas de fe de la ideología laica. Se fomenta porqué lo importante de estas culturas es que son anticristianas que es el verdadero enemigo a abatir.

Está claro que nuestros políticos están muy comprometidos en el objetivo de la destrucción de la sociedad occidental cristiana. Para ello, se pueden encontrar multitud de iniciativas que benefician a personas foráneas respecto a las autóctonas e iniciativas que desincentivan la familia como las subvenciones a familias monoparentales o la eliminación del libro de familia en favor al código personal de ciudadanía (https://www.infocatolica.com/blog/delapsis.php/1007240548-desaparece-el-llibro-de-famil)

Coincido también con Don Alfonso López en que vivimos en una sociedad donde se priman los sentimientos particulares aunque sean banales y se desprecian los grandes ideales como la verdad, la justicia, el amor o la belleza. Nosotros tenemos parte de culpa ya que muchas veces tememos negar la verdad de otra persona para no dañar sus sentimientos y también porqué eso nos puede comportar una condena social (ser tachado de intolerante o incluso hay casos que han perdido su trabajo como en este caso de Canada https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0bxMYlHM00 ).

Pero, en realidad, eso no le hace ningún bien a la persona porqué como indica también Don Alfonso, la persona que se aparta de la verdad, la justicia, el amor y la belleza enferma del espíritu y no puede tener una vida sana y equilibrada. Esto queda demostrado por el consumo creciente de antidepresivos y el aumento de suicidios.

Me ha gustado mucho su definición sobre que la verdad es el estado de plenitud al que se llega cuando tomamos como principios de vida los grandes valores como la verdad, la justicia, etc. Y eso se llega por un camino de renuncias: del egoísmo a la generosidad, del odio al amor, del individualismo a la comunidad. Eso requiere mucho esfuerzo cosa que la mayoría de las personas no está dispuesto a hacer.

Acabo con otra cita más del libro “Dios no mola” que se refiere a este tema:

«A no ser que estemos convencidos de que Dios existe y no huyamos de declarar esa verdad, nuestra fe estará perdida. Cuando las cosas se ponen feas, solo las personas con convicciones resisten.

Si no hay Dios, no hay principios absolutos porqué no hay bondad ni verdad objetiva.»

The fact that can be said about any argument does not make it false. But, it cannot be said about any argument.

The argument has to have a specific structure, more specifically, «There is no reason why X could happen because Y. Then X is impossible», where Y is not strong enough. This is a hell of a claim. («There is no reason why God could allow evil because God is good and all-powerful. Hence, God does not exist»).

(Other example of this kind of argument is «There is no reason why extraterrestrials are good and powerful enough because they allow us to suffer in this planet instead of giving us superior technology to live better lives. Hence, extraterrestrials are not good enough or not powerful enough or they don’t exist»)

If Y is strong enough, you don’t care about unknown objections. For example, if God could do everything, including the contradictory things (a squared circle, a free will agent that can only do good), the argument would be completely tight. It would be as tight as «There is no reason why a bachelor married exists because a bachelor is the man who is not married. Then a married bachelor is impossible».

The fact that God cannot do contradictory things opens a leak in this argument. And the leak is impossible to solve. In general, if Y is not strong enough, these kinds of arguments are really difficult or impossible to prove.

See for example, a dog thinking when it is vaccinated: «There is no reason why my master is good because he makes me suffer and a good master would not make me suffer. Then, my master is not good or does not exist».

Imagine the extra-terrestrials doing things that are not understandable by us. This does not mean that they don’t have any reason. Maybe the extraterrestrials does not give us technology because the drawbacks would be much bigger than the advantages and they know why. This does not mean that extraterrestrials are not good enough or powerful enough or they don’t exist.

In the case of God, you should prove that a specific instance of evil E (not all instances of evil are needed for the argument, only one instance will do) is not necessary to produce a great good G. That is, that producing G with not producing E is contradictory. This is completely impossible to prove because:

1. You cannot prove that you know all possible Gs. G could be any greater good that a human could not understand but God could. (See the dog being vaccinated).

2. You cannot prove that you know all the contradictions that exist. If the supernatural realm exists, there may be contradictions that we can’t imagine. For example, the contradictions that see the good extraterrestrials of the example (for example, «if we give them technology, they will self-destruct themselves»).

This is why the logical problem of evil is bankrupt. In addition, even if the argument from evil worked (which doesn’t), only would prove that God is not good or God is not all-powerful. It would not be proof for atheism. An alternative like Open Theism would be as possible as atheism.

It is mostly an emotional argument. The emotion is its entire strength. «How can God allow that children are raped? The horror! The horror!». But emotion is not a logical argument.

But there is no inconsistency Jeffrey. Nobody said that the failure of problem of evil is a reason to believe in God, although if the problem of evil succeeded (which doesn’t), it would be a reason to not believe in God. The failure of problem of evil simply proves that this argument is inconclusive for the existence of God.

[Taken from https://bonald.wordpress.com/2011/04/16/muslim-individualism-christian-corporatism/]

The key to the seemingly anarchic or ‘irrational’ growth of the Muslim city may lie in a singular fact of the Shari’a law:  the absence of the Roman-law concept of ‘legal personality’.  In Europe, the public right is an abstraction which can be upheld by defending it in law as a ‘legal person’.  Litigation between the public and private interest can therefore–for civil purposes–take the form of an adjudication between two parties.  In criminal law one party is always the state, which brings a case against a suspected criminal as though it too were a legal party on par with the accused.  This principle applies not only to the state but to companies and corporations, groups of individuals endowed for the purposes of the law with legal personalities.

The absence of juridicial personality in the Muslim law may not have been an oversight:  it is certainly consistent with the uncompromising individualism of the Shari’a.  Many aspects of Roman-Byzantine law and administration were taken over by the Arabs…but in the public sphere the Shari’a seems to have taken no steps to define the interests of the community vis-a-vis those of the individual….

This absence of a juridicial definition of the public sphere had far-reaching consequences.  Islamic law did not recognize cities as such, nor did it admit corporate bodies.  Whereas in late medieval Europe the cities came to be administered by powerful corporations representing the merchant classes, the Muslim city remained in certain respects a collection of villages in which the group interests of families predominated over class interests….In a discussion that covers much of the same ground Pervez Hoodbhoy evaluates the role of Islamic law in inhibiting or preventing the emergence of autonomous cities and corporations and of a self-confident bourgeoisie able to withstand the arbitrary power of dynastic government, a prerequisite for the scientific and technological revolution which gave birth to the modern world….

To add a few links to this argument I suggest that in the West the Church, the ‘mystical body’ of Christ which alone guaranteed salvation, became the archetype in law of a whole raft of secular corporations that suceeded it during the early modern period.  The mystic qualities of fictional personhood originating in the Body of Christ were eventually devolved to joint stock companies and public corporations with tradable shares.  Western capitalism and the bourgeois revolution that accompanied it has a distinctly Christian underpinning (one that is paradoxically ‘Catholic’ rather than ‘Protestant’ in origin, as Weber famously claimed, because its legal foundations are rooted in the idea of the Church as a distinctive body separated from society and infused with divine authority)….The corporate group becomes the vehicle for the accumulation of capital.  The burghers continually reinvest their money in the company which, crucially, not only transcends the sum of its individual members, but exists for eternity, just like the Church.  Whereas Islamic law requires that a merchant’s estate be redistributed amongst his kin upon his death…the capital invested in the western corporation may continue to grow…Hoodbhoy comes close to recognizing the significance of this process in registering a concluding irony:  ‘Paradoxically, a superior moral position–the right of the individual to interpret doctrine without the aid of priests–appears to have led to a systemic organizational weakness which proved fatal to Islamic political and economic–not to speak of scientific and technological–power in the long run.

–Malise Ruthven, from Islam in the World, pp. 167-170

by Brett Stevens on June 22, 2017

[Taken from http://www.amerika.org/politics/aristotle-and-plato-on-why-diversity-is-tyranny/]

The Big Tech Exodus – Version 1.31

Rob Braxman on the dangers of big tech (Show this to as many people as possible):

Odysee link: https://odysee.com/@RobBraxmanTech:6/Big-Tech–The-Other-Shoe-has-not-Dropped!-(Worse-Things-Coming):0

Invidious link: https://www.invidious.tube/watch?v=YAZurGCfZgk

Youtube link: https://youtu.be/YAZurGCfZgk

The Great Reset «You Will Own Nothing & You Will Be Happy»:

https://invidious.tube/watch?v=ix5Gt-r4Z24

Website for finding alternative software:

https://alternativeto.net/

Google is an evil corporation:

https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/

How to delete your accounts on Big Tech Platforms:

https://justdeleteme.xyz/

Prism Break:

https://prism-break.org/

Social Media Alternatives:

Instead of Twitter or Facebook, use a Pleroma/Mastodon (Decentralized) instance:

• https://nitter.net/ (front-end mirror for twitter)

Decentralized (Federated):

• https://freespeechextremist.com/
• https://poa.st/
• https://kreatyr.tv/
• https://wowana.me/fediverse.xht (List of based servers)
• https://fediblock.org/blocklist/ (List of based servers)

Normal or Cucked Federated Servers:

• https://fediverse.party/en/portal/servers

 

Federation Software for Self-Hosters (click me):

 

Centralized:

• https://www.minds.com/
• https://freedombook.de/
• https://gab.com/

Instead of reddit, use one of the following:

• https://communities.win/
• https://ruqqus.com/
• https://poal.co/
• https://saidit.net/
• https://lemmy.ml/
• https://teddit.net/ (front-end mirror for reddit)
• https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit (front-end mirror for reddit written in rust)

Instead of Instagram, use PixelFed:

• https://pixelfed.org/
• https://bg.endl.site/ (front-end mirror for Instagram)
• https://git.sr.ht/~cadence/bibliogram-docs/tree/master/docs/Instances.md

Instead of tumblr or wordpress, use Pocketnet:

• https://pocketnet.app/

Messenger/Communication/Email Alternatives:

Text-based Messaging:

Never use garbage like Whatsapp, Skype, Snapchat, SMS or Discord. Nothing you do on those applications is private. Telegram isn’t much better.

Always favor applications that have strong encryption, an open source code and run on a decentralized network.

Great tier:

• Jami: https://jami.net/ (Peer-to-peer, open source, easy to use, strong encryption, multi-platform, great choice) (use it with a VPN, Orbot or a DHT Proxy)
• Briar: https://briarproject.org/ (Peer-to-peer, even more secure than Jami, maximum privacy, routed through Tor, Android only)
• Session: https://getsession.org/ (Decentralized servers, open source, strong encryption, very secure)
• XMPP: https://xmpp.org/ (Galaxy-brained choice if you self-host)
  • For XMPP Server Software, consider Prosody (Guide) or ejabberd
  • For XMPP Client Software (apps), consider Conversations (Android), Gajim (Windows/Linux Desktop) or God forbid, Siskin (iOS) (Make your iPhone-using family & friends use Siskin or ChatSecure)

Okay tier:

• Wickr: https://wickr.com/ (Very private and strong encryption, but closed source)
• Tox: https://tox.chat/ (Peer-to-peer, but highly experimental protocol)
• Threema: https://threema.ch/ (Very secure, Centralized, popular in Europe)

Who needs the internet for chatting?

• Beechat: https://beechat.network/

More information:

• https://securechatguide.org/effguide.html
• https://www.securemessagingapps.com/

Chat Servers:

Never use garbage like Discord under any circumstance, and more importantly, NEVER DOWNLOAD THE APP. It’s spyware and fiercely pro-censorship.

Consider the following alternatives for privacy, security and decentralization:

• Element: https://element.io/ (Read about Matrix here)
  • Cool Element Servers: https://glowers.club/wiki/doku.php?id=wiki:homeservers
• RocketChat: https://rocket.chat/ (More for productivity and collaboration, but some prefer it to Element)
• Mattermost: https://mattermost.com/ (see RocketChat)
• Mumble: https://www.mumble.info/ (The best voice-chat software, very easy to set up)
• Guilded: https://www.guilded.gg/ (Not private, and not great, but extremely similar to Discord in functionality, while not being Discord. Divide the market)

• If you absolutely must use Discord, use it in your browser (especially Ungoogled Chromium). Do NOT download the Discord app under any circumstance. It will spy on your running tasks

Video Conferencing:

• Instead of Zoom, use Jitsi: https://jitsi.org/

Email:

It should go without saying but never use Gmail, Outlook/Hotmail, Yahoomail, Yandex or any of those other big-name Email providers. They can see your emails, and will look through them if they ever need to.

For unimportant things like forum registrations, consider free, disposable email services like Mailinator or MailDrop, or temporary email services like MinuteInbox or 10MinuteMail.

For more important exchanges, consider one of the smaller, privacy-focused providers below, and if you can, use email encryption software like GPG.

• https://nixnet.email/
• https://www.msgsafe.io/
• https://www.criptext.com
• https://cock.li/
• https://dismail.de/
• https://disroot.org/
• https://mailfence.com/
• https://tutanota.com/

Email Clients:

Never use Outlook Express/Windows Live Mail, and try to avoid Mozilla Thunderbird. Consider:

• Claws: https://www.claws-mail.org/
• K-9 Mail: https://k9mail.app/ (Android)
• Rainloop: https://www.rainloop.net/ (Supports Nextcloud integration)
• KMail: https://kontact.kde.org/components/kmail.html
• Evolution: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution

Fixing your Internet:

Browsers

The Best Choice for the future:

• Web Browser: https://git.nuegia.net/webbrowser.git/ (Fork of Pale Moon)
  • Why? Because it doesn’t depend on Google or Firefox for updates. With Google and Firefox growing increasingly anti-freedom, forks based on Chromium and Firefox become increasingly difficult to manage.
  • Pale Moon? The developers are complete shitheads. They are also growing increasingly anti-freedom.

Instead of Google Chrome/Opera, use Ungoogled Chromium:

• https://chromium.woolyss.com/ (Marmaduke build)
• https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
• Bromite (Android): https://www.bromite.org/ (In the privacy settings, turn on ‘Do Not Track’)
• Min: https://minbrowser.org/ (Remember to turn on ad-blocking for all sites)
• Otter: https://sourceforge.net/projects/otter-browser/
• AVOID BRAVE.

Prefer Firefox? It’s spyware by default, but you can mitigate it in the settings and the about:config page. Make sure you read these articles:

• https://restoreprivacy.com/firefox-privacy/
• https://www.privacytools.io/browsers/#about_config))
• https://spyware.neocities.org/guides/firefox.html

Alternatively, you could download a hardened user.js or LibreWolf, a fork of Firefox without the spyware. Don’t get Waterfox, it’s trash.

Tor Browser: https://www.torproject.org/ (Excellent privacy, not every site will work, but a great option to have)

Further reading:

• Table of Browsers ranked by spyware: https://tilde.club/~acz/shadow_wiki/browsers.xhtml
• Digdeeper: https://digdeeper.neocities.org/ghost/browsers.html

Essential Browser addons:

• https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases (Best adblocker by far) (Look for the «Latest release»)
• https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere (Always uses https when possible) (make sure to turn on «Encrypt All Sites Eligible»)
• https://git.synz.io/Synzvato/decentraleyes/-/archive/master/decentraleyes-master.zip (Protects you against tracking)
• https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect (Re-directs you to the front-end mirror for big tech sites. For example: it converts twitter links to nitter links)
• https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete/releases (Deletes your cookies automatically when not in use) (Make sure you enable Automatic Cleaning)
• https://github.com/violentmonkey/violentmonkey (For userscripts. Use ViolentMonkey, avoid Tampermonkey)
  • To install extensions in Ungoogled Chromium, download the .zip and extract it. Then in Chromium, open Manage Extensions, turn on developer mode (top right), click Load Unpacked, and open the FOLDER you extracted. (for uBlock Origin, it should be called «uBlock0.chromium»)

• For Privacy-Redirect, load the «src» folder.

Instead of Google Services(drive, account, etc), use Disroot or Librem One:

• https://disroot.org/
• https://librem.one/
• BEST OPTION: Setting up a Home Server with Nextcloud (see Home Server stuff below)

Search Engines:

Never use Google, Bing, Yahoo or Yandex.

Whatever you choose, make sure to set it as your default search engine in your browser’s settings.

The Best options:

• https://gigablast.com/ (very based)
• https://searx.me/
• https://yacy.net/

The rest:

• https://www.mojeek.com/
• https://www.qwant.com/
• https://yippy.com/
• https://startpage.com/
• https://duckduckgo.com/ (at least it’s not google)

Instead of Wikipedia, use Infogalactic, Everipedia and Citizendium:

• https://infogalactic.com/info/Main_Page
• https://everipedia.org/
• https://citizendium.org/
• https://encyclopediadramatica.wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Instead of Youtube, use Freetube, Invidious, BitTube, Lbry/Odysee, DTube, PeerTube and Bitchute:

• https://freetubeapp.io/ (can watch youtube videos without being tracked) (very based app)
• https://invidious.tube/ (can watch youtube videos without being tracked)
• https://bittube.tv/
• https://odysee.com/
• https://lbry.tv/
• https://d.tube/
• https://www.bitchute.com/
• https://newtube.app/

Decentralized (Federated):

• https://joinpeertube.org/instances
• https://instances.joinpeertube.org/

*

Instead of Amazon, support small, local businesses.

*

Instead of Ebay, use OpenBazaar:

• https://openbazaar.org/

Instead of Twitch, use DLive or Trovo:

• https://dlive.tv/
• https://trovo.live/
• https://owncast.online/
• https://openstreamingplatform.com/

Movies/TV/Media Streaming:

Never pay for any subscription-based service like Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, HBO Max or any of that crap.

Self-host your own Media-Streaming server using Jellyfin, Plex or whatever server software you like:

• https://jellyfin.org/
• https://www.plex.tv/

Combine it with Sonarr, Radarr, Jackett and Deluge so you can fetch any Movie/TV show you want:

• https://sonarr.tv/
• https://radarr.video/
• https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett
• https://www.deluge-torrent.org/ (Make sure you mask your IP before using)
• And if you have a Usenet Provider: https://nzbget.net/ (Usenet is recommended over public tracker torrents)
  • Usenet requires indexers. You can start off with limited free ones like abnzb and NZBFinder

Setup Guides:

• Deluge and Sonarr/Radarr (Text Guide): [Part 1: Torrent Client Setup] [Part 2: Sonarr/Radarr Setup] [Part 3: Using Sonarr/Radarr]
• Video Guide: [Deluge] [NZBGet] [Sonarr] [Radarr] (These are for Unraid, but can be applied to other operating systems) (This guy makes great tutorials in general)
• Jackett: Text Guide (Another Text Guide) Video Guide

Instead of Spotify, use Funkwhale or Soulseek:

• https://funkwhale.audio/
• https://www.slsknet.org/

Instead of uTorrent, use Deluge, Transmission or ruTorrent:

• https://www.deluge-torrent.org/
• https://transmissionbt.com/
• https://github.com/Novik/ruTorrent (install it from your distro’s repo)
• https://www.qbittorrent.org/

DNS:

Never ever use your default DNS, Google DNS or Cloudflare DNS.

Always use a secure, encrypted DNS protocol like DNS-over-TLS or DNS-over-HTTPS.

Make sure whichever DNS provider you choose records no-logs, and doesn’t censor. (read the privacy policy)

If you don’t set up your own Pi-hole, consider a provider with built-in adblocking.

https://wiki.lelux.fi/dns/resolvers/

https://www.privacytools.io/providers/dns/

Some good options:

• LibreDNS: https://libredns.gr/
• BlahDNS: https://blahdns.com/
• Snopyta: https://snopyta.org/service/dns/index.html
• NixNet: https://docs.nixnet.services/NixNet_DNS
• UncensoredDNS: https://blog.uncensoreddns.org/dns-servers/
  • More information on DNS: https://nixnet.services/blog/dns-and-root-certificates-what-you-need-to-know/

Domains/Hosting:

Never use garbage like Godaddy, Bluehost or Google Domains. They are all pro-censorship and anti-freedom.

Consider Epik as your Domain Registrar. They fight strongly free speech and provide excellent service:

• https://www.epik.com/

And read this Guide on how to host a website securely and correctly:

• https://ibin.co/5oVt0Zhj0TpB.png

Self-Hosting Software:

• https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

VPN:

There is a lot of debate regarding whether or not most people need a VPN, particularly with the increased adoption of the https protocol.

If you decide to buy a VPN subscription, make sure it meets the following criteria:

• Based outside of 14-eyes jurisdiction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes)
• Has a strict no-logging policy
• Has a built-in killswitch
• Has strong encryption (EG- OpenVPN with SHA-256) and PFS
• Allows torrenting
• Allows crypto payments

Read more:

• The case against buying a VPN: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29 (read the comments too)
• Check your torrent IP: https://torguard.net/howtodownloadtorrentsanonymously.php
• https://restoreprivacy.com/vpn/
• https://www.privacytools.io/providers/vpn/#criteria
• https://www.safetydetectives.com/best-vpns/
• https://techlore.tech/vpnfinder.html

Home Server stuff:

Ultimate Getting Started Guide:

• https://wiki.installgentoo.com/wiki/Home_server

Beginner-friendly and affordable:

• ODROID N2+: https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-n2-with-4gbyte-ram-2/
• Raspberry Pi 4 Model B: https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/
• Freedombox: https://www.freedombox.org/#get (privacy-focused)

Server OS:

• Unraid: https://www.unraid.net/ (Fantastic beginner-friendly OS, but not free)

• Godly tutorials too: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZDfnUn74N0WeAPvMqTOrtA

• OpenMediaVault: https://www.openmediavault.org/ (Debian-based OS, good media server)
• TrueNAS: https://www.truenas.com/ (Beast, high hardware requirements. Not for beginners)
• Other options: Ubuntu Server, Rockstor, Debian, FreeBSD, XigmaNAS, Xpenology, openSUSE, Fedora Server

Avoid overpriced commercial NAS like Synology or QNAP, unless you’re extremely lazy.

Whatever you choose, get Pi-hole:

• https://pi-hole.net/
  • and add some blocklists: https://firebog.net/

Server software:

• Nextcloud: [Official Site] – [Documentation] – [MariaDB] – [Video Tutorial (Unraid)] – [Video Tutorial for making it accessible outside your home network (Unraid)]
• List of Self-Hosted Software: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

Any questions? Make sure to ask https://boards.4channel.org/g/hsg

Misc Alternatives:

Using Windows? Run WindowsSpyBlocker:

• https://crazymax.dev/WindowsSpyBlocker/download/

Using an Android Phone? Get your apps from FDroid:

• https://f-droid.org/

Instead of the Google Play Store, use Aurora or APKMirror:

• https://auroraoss.com/
• https://www.apkmirror.com/

Instead of Google Drive/Onedrive/Dropbox/iCloud, use Nextcloud:

• https://nextcloud.com/

Instead of Google Maps, use Openstreetmap:

• https://www.openstreetmap.org/

Instead of CCLeaner, use BleachBit:

• https://www.bleachbit.org/

When posting article links to any website, archive it then post:

• https://archive.is/

Higher Level Security (for those wanting to take the next step)

Instead of Windows/Mac, use Linux:

• https://distrowatch.com/
• https://wiki.installgentoo.com/wiki/Babbies_First_Linux
• https://www.virtualbox.org (for testing distros in a VM)

Recommended Beginner Distros:

• PCLinuxOS: https://www.pclinuxos.com/ (no systemd, great choice)
• Zorin: https://zorinos.com/ (windows-like)
• Mint: https://linuxmint.com/ (popular beginner choice)
• elementary: https://elementary.io/ (for those who like MacOS)

Ask in the thread about what distro is right for you.

Also, make sure to ask: https://boards.4channel.org/g/fglt

De-Googling your Android Phone:

• https://odysee.com/@RobBraxmanTech:6

De-Appling your iPhone:

• https://hammersource.com/10-oz-aluminum-hammer-1-1-2-diameter-face-14-wood-handle/

Instead of iOS/Android, use a nice clean AOSP-based ROM with built in signature spoofing:

• crDroid: https://crdroid.net/dl.php
• ArrowOS: https://arrowos.net/
• Resurrection Remix: https://resurrectionremix.com/
• Maximum Security – GrapheneOS: https://grapheneos.org/
  • Buy a used/refurbished Pixel 3a/3a XL to install GrapheneOS on: [Pixel 3a] [Pixel 3a XL]
• For Maximum Privacy, turn your phone into a Linux Phone – Ubuntu Touch: https://ubuntu-touch.io/
  • You could also buy a Purism Librem 5 or a Pinephone
• Watch this: https://odysee.com/@RobBraxmanTech:6/linux-phone-vs-de-googled-android-aosp:e

Alternative memes:

• https://e.foundation/
• https://lineage.microg.org/

Private, Secure PCs/Laptops/Phones:

• https://puri.sm/
• https://system76.com/
• https://www.pine64.org/
• https://starlabs.systems/
• https://e.foundation/products/

Privoxy:

• https://www.privoxy.org/

Encrypt your files:

• https://www.veracrypt.fr/ (ONLY USE THIS ON GNU/LINUX, and make sure your internet is turned off while encrypting)

Instead of fiat/paypal, use decentralized cryptocurrencies. Even better, use anonymous cryptocurrencies like Monero, and anonymous P2P exchanges like Bisq:

• https://bisq.network/
• https://www.getmonero.org/
• https://localmonero.co/
• https://kycnot.me/
• https://z.cash/
• https://coinmarketcap.com/rankings/exchanges/dex/
• https://archive.is/Pqt2Y

Instead of using your router’s default firmware, install a secure, open source firmware:

• https://www.pfsense.org/
• https://freshtomato.org/
• https://www.asuswrt-merlin.net/
• https://dd-wrt.com/
• https://openwrt.org/

Instead of the Clearnet, use the Darknet:

• https://www.torproject.org/
• https://freenetproject.org/
• https://geti2p.net/
• https://i2pd.website/
• https://lokinet.org/
• https://zeronet.io/
  • Using these is perfectly legal, just remember to avoid illegal activity.
  • Tor is not a honeypot. Mandatory reading: https://write.privacytools.io/my-thoughts-on-security/slicing-onions-part-1-myth-busting-tor
  • How people got caught on Tor (and what you should learn): https://www.invidious.tube/watch?v=eQ2OZKitRwc

Filesharing:

• https://onionshare.org/
• https://anonfiles.com/
• https://gofile.io/welcome

Intel Management Engine and why it’s bad:

• https://libreboot.org/faq.html#intel (Is yours vulnerable?)

AMD is bad too:

• https://libreboot.org/faq.html#amd

Disabling Intel Management Engine (Autism required):

• https://github.com/darajnish/dell5577medisable
• https://www.invidious.tube/watch?v=WJo8RsJeqxU
• https://www.invidious.tube/watch?v=aRUxfxp9dJ8
• https://www.invidious.tube/watch?v=A5JOKh6t1ew
• https://mail.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2016-November/082331.html

• Alternatively, buy a computer compatible with Libreboot: https://libreboot.org/docs/hardware/
• Purism and System76 have disabled Intel ME on their products.

Improve your security:

• https://privacytools.io/
• https://prism-break.org/
• https://restoreprivacy.com/
• https://spyware.neocities.org/
• https://ssd.eff.org/
• https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/
• https://boards.4channel.org/g/cybersecurity
• https://wiki.installgentoo.com/wiki/Main_Page