My advice is to use both a VPN and Tor. All your Internet traffic should go through your VPN, and some of your communications additionally through Tor.

Oh, I'm talking about using computers running Linux-based operating systems. No Windows, MacOS, iOS, or Android. Home residential Internet is fine, especially if your computer is always on and always connected to communications (Tor Browser open to Tuta or Proton Mail, Jami running, etc.) The idea is to have a constant trickle of traffic to and from that one VPN node.

All actual online accounts should be created with, and only accessed with, Tor. Tuta, Proton Mail, Internet Archive, and Diaspora are all quite Tor-friendly.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petraeus…

Petraeus and Broadwell used fake names to create free webmail accounts exchanging messages without encryption tools. They would share an email account, with one saving a message in the drafts folder and the other deleting it after reading it.

Didn't work out well for them.

Storing small backups online is easy. Just send email with encrypted attachments to and from your own email accounts. Encrypt with the public key of a key pair that has never been uploaded to a keyserver or used for any communications. There's no reason not to use 4096-bit keys.

It's a good idea to keep an up-to-date Tails drive with backups of some important files. Flash drives are easy to conceal. If the secret police come and take all your stuff, there should be nothing that isn't encrypted. If you can ever get free and get your Tails drive, you can get access to your online accounts.

Change just a few words, and you get

If the Europeans had been a little more independent, and a little more willing to stand up, then maybe we could have saved the entire #world from the strategic #disaster that was the American-led invasion of #Normandy in 1944.

Except Europe had been fighting since 1939. They were indepently defending & standing against the spread of fascism & the Nazis...
In 1941, 2 years after the war began & after an attack on Pearl Harbor, the US entered the war. Since Europe had been fighting for an extended period the US was positioned to lead from strength ...
The attack on Iraq, the US war on terror, is solely the responsibility of US foreign policy...

It seems real obvious today though that the notion of beating back fascism & the nazis is considered a "strategic disaster" by an enormous segment of the global population...

Nazi is an abreviation [sic] of National Socialism.

The emphasis for the Nazis was on the National. They wanted a nationalist society: i.e., they were national socialists. They didn't want us to see ourselves as just people, like millions of others all over the world. They insisted that we see ourselves as a nation. They thought that a national identity was absolutely essential.

The Nazis, of course, were always rabidly opposed to what is normally called "socialism."

There were large numbers of people here in the US who were horrified when Germany declared war against the US. The Nazis here in the US (who really did wave swastika flags and give fascist salutes) had made an uneasy coalition with pacifists to oppose US entry into WWII. Their figurehead leader, Charles Lindbergh, confidently told us that, come what may, the US could not possibly defeat Hitler.

After the US and its allies did defeat Hitler, comprehensively, and hung all the Nazi leaders, the America First Committee and the German American Bund quietly disappeared from view, but the Americans who dedicatedly worked against the war effort from the 1930s on, did not change their opinions. They just moved into other already existing organizations like the KKK, and formed new groups like the John Birch Society. Powerful government officials, including J. Edgar Hoover and Joseph McCarthy, were part of this. They shared Hitler's racism (though not always with such emphasis on Jews), but they were most worried by the movement to diffuse power rather than concentrate it.

The Nazis, now and 100 years ago, were convinced that we all need strong leaders to trust and obey. They may be shy about advocating dictatorship, but that is really what they want because that is what they think we absolutely need.

Trump, Vance, and Musk are part of the same tradition as the America First Committee and the German American Bund. During the 1930s, people like them admired Hitler. Now they admire Putin and Victor Orban. It's still Nazism, only the names have been changed.

"Nazi is an abreviation [sic] of National Socialism."
...words strung together in service of an agenda much like "partial birth abortion". A poorly or uneducated population is prey to just this kind of manipulation. There's far more than one so nazis !!!

"The Axis were united in their far-right positions and general opposition to the Allies, but otherwise lacked comparable coordination and ideological cohesion."
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_p…

"Fascist Italy (Italian: Italia fascista) is a term which is used in historiography to describe the Kingdom of Italy between 1922 and 1943, when Benito Mussolini and the National Fascist Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship. The Italian Fascists imposed totalitarian rule and crushed political opposition, while simultaneously promoting economic modernization, traditional social values and a rapprochement with the Roman Catholic Church."
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascis…

Xenophobia can come with the American character for sure, it's not a character trait that should be nurtured however especially in a country made up of a diverse & non-indigenous population...