They used to be limited to local gossip circles, with all the potential consequences that come from lying about a man who physically knows where you are and people who actually know him, but now all women potentially have global audiences and unlimited support from people who can never be argued with and can make you unemployable forever.
The best price point/functionality spot right now is a used 3090 off eBay or Facebook Marketplace or whatever, you can get something like https://www.ebay.com/itm/197789703380 and be set to run pretty much any image generator, a lot of surprisingly smart LLMs, and you can even generate 5 second 480p video clips in a reasonable amount of time (a couple minutes). If you haven't done any image stuff recently, like in the last year or so, the tools and models available have gotten a LOT better than they used to be.
Every streaming service in the US will go out of their way to block VPN users, even if you're paying them a monthly fee. If you want to watch live sports and use a VPN you straight up do not have any option besides piracy.
The exact same people who don't mind foreign/spiritually foreign communists tearing down statues and monuments pitching huge screaming fits about White House renovations would be funny if they weren't all genuinely, dangerously insane.