I started my career reporting on how people were using the Internet in dictatorships, and if there's one BIG thing I learned from talking to a bunch of people who literally had served jail time for political blogging, it was "choose your battles wisely, and don't say dumb things in dumb places."
if there is one survival skill I would REALLY like everyone opposed to the fascist GOP to learn right now, it's "do not say things on the public internet that will provide authorities with useful pretenses for coming after you."
It's one of the reasons why I don't like people complaining about how more Russians aren't out on the streets protesting.
I don't *want* them protesting, and thus getting flagged by the Kremlin as a threat, and neutralized. I want them silently sabotaging the Russian war effort off-grid.
