That is what Animal Farm was talking about - that authoritarianism can take over any political ideology. It isn’t a anti-communism book, but anti-authoritarianism.

There’s an asteroid that MIGHT hit earth in 2032, so we can look forward to that ( it’s only at a 2.2% right now).

That’s the thing, you’ll have to de Google your entire life, which is really involved and tedious , especially if you want free alternatives. Not saying it’s impossible, but you’re talking about ditching a lot of services. Realistically, there aren’t good alternatives to YouTube and some other services. I know people will try to pitch fediverse alternatives. While promising, the problem is that the historical content that is really useful just isn’t there. Additionally, it fails in comparison in terms the amount of content offered. It sucks to see Google bend the knee so easily.

If you read hard right tweets, you’ll see they use DEI in place of slurs for any minority. Just like critical race theory, they’ve twisted the meaning to whip up a frenzy and have something for the masses to hate.