I tried posting this to KiA, but I never realized how many KiA Prime people are blue pilled thinking things will go back to normal after this.
Seeing how most of you here are far more aware of what's going on, I'm going to copy pasta what I posted on Prime before the dumb mods deleted it since most of you aren't rabid TDers but also understand the "bigger picture":
My original post below.
So all the things we warned about 6 years ago has more or less come to fruition, and the safeguards and actions we took to keep it from getting worse has more or less been removed or neutralized to allow unethical behavior, blatant biased news that denigrates gamers and other arbitrary groups is now everywhere. Every gaming urinalist and game development outlet has an Anita Sarkeesian type or 10 working for them. Reddit went from a place where disparate ideologies could bicker with each other to a site where small pockets of "The resistance" (moderates, conservatives) are allowed to stay quarantined in certain areas but the ideological moderation is rampant in other subs.
Youtube, Twitter, etc., the stuff the normies consume that aren't alt-tech have now openly abused Section 230 in open defiance of the current administration. The mask has come off, and we've run out of options at this point at any possible way to enforce full on freedom of expression and speech under the law.
Where do we go from here?
We have alt-tech, but as many of you have realized, alt-tech popularity undermined by the mainstream outlets that try to demonize them. We now have a giant ideological chasm between us moderate lefties and right wingers and the establishment "liberals". It's unrepairable, so where do we go from here?
All the things you "consoom" has been tainted by this stuff. You can only resort to removing yourself from that pool so much until it comes to a point where you are essentially isolating yourself from society, so where do we go from here? If everything has SocJus, if everything has TOSes that violate freedom of expression, then what is left to turn to?
What is practical that we can do tomorrow while continuing our everyday lives on this bucket of a planet we call Earth?
I've put bits and pieces of my views in various threads, but I'll try to put them in one place here.
None of this is fool-proof; all of this is based on thinking in terms of risk, which is analyzed based on probability of occurrence and severity of harm. Given a risk, you attempt to reduce either or both of those things until the risk becomes tolerable. But you will never eliminate it. Maybe one day the King's men will enter your village and demand tribute or burn it to the ground, and there's nothing you can do about that. Treat that the same way you would treat a tornado or hurricane: an Act of God that at best you can prepare for to minimize the harm.
We are in a post-republic nation, and voting per se no longer matters. What matters is avoiding systems of power that will oppress you and finding/forming systems of power that won't.
The United States is massive and largely undeveloped outside of large population centers. It is not possible for the government to police all of its laws everywhere it wants to. While you can't escape it, as you move away from those large population centers you reduce the probability that you will ever see a government official let alone interact with one.
Adopt a setter's mindset: you are a stranger in a strange land whose native population doesn't share your values. Find or form communities with like-minded people who share your values. Form these communities in locations where the native population is less hostile. Be weary and distrustful of outsiders. If possible make gentleman's agreements with the local sheriff to "police your own" if there are problems, and then do so. Form your own institutions (schools, sporting and social clubs, etc...) and use them to strengthen your community's values. Try to make it so that your community is as self-sufficient as it can be for basic necessities like food. Adopting decentralized sources of energy (eg. wind, solar) and water can also be beneficial since anything you do yourself is something that can't be used against you.
Pay your taxes. Don't bring unwanted attention to yourself or your community. Don't modify weapons for strangers. This reduces the odds that you will draw hostile attention to yourself.
If the Right Wing Dance Squad is ever invited to the Civil Dance Contest, make sure your dancing shoes are in good repair, and you're in good enough shape to dance.
Amen reverend.