What VPN?

That makes sense for your use case. My use case is that I don’t want my YT watching habits being scooped up if I can help it. At one point I might not have cared too much about things like YT, but under the current administration I have a lot more reservations about that.

Are there any alternatives?

Good to know. I was using FreeTube on a Linux machine I have set up to do most of my Youtube watching, but I had to disable VPN. I got tired of trying different countries and just turned off VPN. I’ll try Swedish servers…

Is that an option on Mac or Linux?

Thanks. It seems maybe Italy works for the moment anyway.

Do you know of a working exit country/location? I’ve tried a few different locations with no dice, but if I know there is one that works for someone else, I’ll certainly try that.

I’m using Private Internet Access. It’s weird, because as soon as I turn it on, FreeTube fails to play anything.

I’m not understanding why it doesn’t work when I turn on my VPN, though. Is there a way to watch Youtube and have the VPN on?

I’m waiting for one of these goofballs to start mainstreaming the qtarded Bircher Society stuff about how capitalized names are not your “real” names and how it’s not a “real” court if there is a flag with fringes on it (cuz something something Maritime Law, lol), etc…

Isn’t that one of the tools of fascism? And the kind of thing Bannon talks about - “flood the zone with shit”.

That’s a fair point. I’ve seen how concerned the rabid right wing was for property (over life) during the BLM protests; imagine if that property was attached to tiny d.

Is that material at all?

Property rights uber alles.

Carrying around that weapon in a place he had no need to be in is not provoking anyone?

What liberal media is this?

Hide all the plastic bags.

What reason did he have for being there?

He put himself into harm’s way, intentionally, because of right-wing feels, and then claims “self defense”. Carrying around a brandished weapon. What was he even doing there?

It so happens that I do think self-defense is a valid defense. Under the right circumstances, of course. If, for instance, someone breaks into my house and I shoot them on the spot, I won’t exactly be jumping up and down that I was pushed to kill someone (the manly macho posturing on this kind of scenario is one I always find curious; the fact of the matter is that any normal human being would not - and should not - come away mentally unscathed from ending another human being’s life. If I were forced to end someone’s life because they broke into my house, I imagine that is something I’d wrestle with for the rest of my days), but I don’t think I should be charged with anything. However, if I go to a protest, waving around a firearm, and then feel “threatened” by someone throwing a plastic bag at me…

I would say that a very vocal, but hopefully tiny, minority on the left are very much caught up in that. Not all of us are. Unfortunately, in some venues/platforms they have utterly captured the mods, and in some cases, have completely destroyed any reasonable discussion (an example I’ve mentioned before is Boing Boing’s comment section - it’s reached cartoonish levels, and I’ve mostly stopped reading Boing Boing in recent years as a result. It’s almost a self-parody, not even joking.). I think the impression is that there are many more of these types of leftists than there really are.