Probably the Windows, then. Like I said above:

This new one uses Windows 11. I did log into Windows 11 with my Microsoft account. Maybe that’s how they tracked it? That seems far-fetched, but maybe?

We’re 2.5-3 years away from the primary race even starting, and 3+ years away from the convention. This poll means absolutely nothing at this point.

Also told all yall we need progressives to split from DNC and form a fresh 3rd party bruh.

This is a recipe to ensure Republicans fully sweep every election and progressives are ignored even more than they already are. American politics are so incredibly broken, but isolating yourself by breaking off into a party that has 0 chance of ever winning anything isn’t going to fix anything.

No. Lemmy is the best I’ve found, but there aren’t nearly enough users to make it anywhere close to as useful as Reddit.

did you use the same websites on brave that you normally use?

No. I exclusively have used Brave just for Reddit specifically for this reason. I also used Edge, which came installed on the laptop. Maybe data from Edge is used in Brave or Reddit is somehow able to track that? I never went to Reddit in Edge, let alone logged in, but I did log into my Google account (which has never been linked to any Reddit account, but I’ve been logged into it on the same browser as my older Reddit account in the past).

did you use a different operating system?

I’ve used Reddit with my old account on Android phones and my old laptop, which ran Windows 10. This new one uses Windows 11. I did log into Windows 11 with my Microsoft account. Maybe that’s how they tracked it? That seems far-fetched, but maybe?

did you use a brave account on it?

No, and I only use Brave in incognito mode. I know that doesn’t prevent anyone else from tracking anything, but it’s supposed to not save local files after closing the browser.

did you verify that your vpn was using an exit point ip address that you’ve never used before every single time you accessed reddit?

I mean, I don’t track every IP address I’ve ever used. As far as I know it’s been a new IP address, but I really have no way of guaranteeing that. It seems incredibly unlikely I happened to stumble upon one I’ve used before, though.

most importantly: why bother using reddit?

Lemmy isn’t to the point where it can be a Reddit replacement. Sure, for some stuff it’s fine, but the user base is just too small. There are multiple subreddits for local communities around me that are very active which I like to check. There are communities for more niche hobbies, games, and books I like to follow. There’s just WAY more content on Reddit that you can’t get on Lemmy.

Nope. It was a temp email account from one of those temp email sites that deletes the email account once you close the browser. I have no idea how they were able to track me, but it’s kinda scary.

No, I don’t think so.

A few months ago I got permabanned from Reddit. I had an older account I hadn’t used in a few years. I logged into that one and found it, too, was permabanned, with a reference to my other account. I tried to start a new account, and it got immediately banned.

A few weeks after that, for unrelated reasons, I got a brand new laptop. Without ever even going to Reddit on that laptop (let alone trying to log in), I downloaded a new browser I had never used on any device before which advertises it’s focus on safety (the name of the browser is Brave). I connected my VPN. I created a new burner email account. Then I created a new Reddit account. Within 2 days it was permabanned referencing me trying to evade a ban on my other account.

I have no idea how they were able to know it was me. It was a new account, made from a new device, with a new email, through a new privacy-focused browser, on a VPN (so different IP address). There should have been no way for them to track me, yet they somehow still did.

I’d really like to know how they tracked it. Not even just to get back on Reddit. If Reddit is able to track you like that, then you know other companies and governments can.

Do you really need one at this point? AI images are really easy to notice.

You are really just completely missing the point here. Motivating people to get out and join me in the streets is exactly what all of this is about.

while ignoring the institution violating the prisoners constitutional rights

Who ever said anything about ignoring anything?

Freeing one guy is the start. It proves that getting sent to these concentration camps isn’t a one-way ticket. And it gives him the opportunity to go public with the conditions there and how he was treated. That’s going to motivate people organizing a hell of a lot more than a Senator giving a speech at a rally ever would.

Why are you pretending like this is about just saving one guy?

I feel like you’re trying to justify your own in action through declaring this meaningful action. Does that resonate with you?

No, that doesn’t resonate with me in the slightest. I feel like you’re trying to justify your own inaction by pretending like a Senator sitting in his office writing legislation nobody will ever read has some kind of impact on anything.

I never said it would stop anything. But it’s a hell of a lot more than sitting at home writing legislation that will never get a vote and pretending like politics as usual is how anything works anymore.

Trump lashed out in the same way he does against everyone who does something he doesn’t like and you take that as proof he’s some kind of mastermind behind everything? Man, do you not understand Trump at all.

First, I said Representatives and Senators. There are 260 Democrats in Congress (well, 258 +2 independent who caucus with Dems), not 45. But that’s beside the point. What are they doing for us in Congress right now? Absolutely nothing. Hell, a bunch of Dem Senators are acting like Vichy collaborationists helping the fascists confirm appointments and pass their CR. They’re actively working against us by just sitting in Congress.

But even that’s beside the point. They’re not going to arrest or kill a bunch of sitting US members of Congress. Even just saying ‘no’ to 1 of them was such a bad look that they completely folded and, for the fist time ever, let someone out of CECOT, even just temporarily. They’ve NEVER let anyone out before, and Van Hollen just showing up on his own scared them enough to crack.

Why do you think an even greater number would scare them less?

That didn’t happen when just 1 Senator went and didn’t live stream his visit. If they really wanted to, they could have claimed he did something violent or something. There’d have been no way to prove otherwise. And he was able to get them to crack just by holding a press conference. The bad PR from 1 guy getting denied scared them so much that they let him meet Abrego Garcia.

So why do you think they’d do that if there was a large group and the entire thing was being live streamed?

Bretton Woods wasn’t about military protection. It was about stabilizing the global economy and monetary system. It absolutely gave the US a ton of economic influence, but it didn’t have anything to do with military protection. The Soviet Union even took part in the negotiations that turned into the Bretton Woods Agreement, although they chose not to sign the treaty.

The US’ military hegemony came out of NATO, the Cold War, and the Marshall Plan.

…in Venezuela? One of the 2 countries in the western hemisphere we don’t have diplomatic relations with? A country Trump tried to do a violent coup in last time he was in power? You think they’re going to build a concentration camp for Trump and start taking prisoners?

You have no idea what the fuck you’re talking about, and it really shows.

I’m not talking about just getting a picture. And you think Republicans will resign because…why? Because we asked them to? Why would they? This is all exactly what they want.

I’m 39 years old, so try again.

And how will that accomplish more than his trip to El Salvador did?

There is no chance in hell that all 300+ Republican Congress people are in on this grift.

This is a rather naive understanding of American politics. Yes, they’re all in on it. Stopping hoping for the nice Republicans. They don’t exist. They’re all fascists.

Your suggestion is to keep trying to appeal to the better nature of Republicans. That’s exactly what the Democrats have been doing for the past decade. Hell, it’s what they’ve been doing since 2009. It doesn’t work. They don’t have a better nature. They want the fascism.

There is NOTHING Democrats can do in Congress. Trying to protest to Republican politicians directly isn’t going to get them to change their minds. Van Hollen did more in a single trip to El Salvador to resist the fascists than anyone has done in Congress in 10+ years.