I don’t think postmodernism had much to do with it. Go ask your average MAGA racist if they even know what that term means and they’ll shrug their shoulders. Similarly, the research does not show that your echo chamber theory holds water, and in fact it suggests the opposite. In the days before the world wide web, people were actually stuck in echo chambers, that being the communities where they lived.

God bless DCVS.

First of all, they won’t arrest everyone. Even extreme governments on the tail end of their horrible leadership don’t arrest everyone. They need some citizens to be there working jobs. Rather, they would aim to arrest enough people to scare everyone else and then some other people randomly just for the hell of it.

But if you think staying under the radar is going to make your life better, maybe you should read some history books. Who do you think is coming to save you? Who do you think is coming to make your community better? When do you think they’re going to arrive? Outside forces will not fix contemporary US political problems. It doesn’t work that way, not when everyone has armies and nuclear weapons.

Sadly, quite possibly things could get far worse before they get better, so if you want to plan for some unfortunate eventualities, that might be a reasonable decision. But don’t think for a second you can run from them. And even if you could, what kind of human would that make you? What kind of person do you want to be?

What a shit article. If you want to blame corrupt South African leaders, you need to actually do that. But targeting the country as a whole is classic bullshit victim blaming.

There are no absolutists, my friend. Everyone has limits.

No, it doesn’t mean that. Think about what you are suggesting.

That’s where the mini split unit goes, lol. See the vent above it? For the pipes and wires.

Of course the US promised to defend Ukraine. That was the Budapest Memorandum. That is why Ukraine gave up its nuclear arsenal. Trump is lying again.

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/21/1082124528/ukraine-russia-putin-invasion

I have used it on old underpowered computers happily for years. There’s just no need for anything with high specs.

If you want the answer to your question, just go read. A lot of people are doing a lot already. It’s just not Washington Democrats.

But if you want to know why we should be targeting the Democrats, it’s because we know what the Republicans in Washington were able to do when Obama was president and when Biden was present. The Dems have power, but they are pretending that they don’t.

And we the people are calling out to these Democrats and telling them hey, if you want the country to survive, you need to level up. And if you don’t, and the country does somehow survive anyway, we will make sure to throw you to the curb as soon as we can. But we really do need your help now because the situation is s***.

Bigotry leads to more bigotry. If it wasn’t trans folk, it would be Mexicans. Oh wait, it’s both, right? … The reasons don’t matter to them. All they want is hate and harm, and that’s what they live.

I use Debian on a regular basis and have for years, but I wouldn’t recommend it as the starting distro unless I knew that the user would have very ordinary hardware and no special software needs. It’s just annoying if you have to learn how to install Chrome, or your wireless drivers, for example.

It’s almost simple enough, but not quite, in my view. But if I were helping them get it installed, then after that they would probably be good to go.

Elon Musk is also an idiot. He thinks he’s smart enough to quickly understand complex situations and complex problems about which he knows next to nothing, within just a few minutes.

Most people would only try to claim that level of understanding in areas with which they have professional experience or about which they’re extremely geeky. He does it with everything, and nobody can be an expert in everything, and everybody knows that except for narcissistists.

I suppose for non-tech people it might be convenient to assume that because someone knows something about some kind of tech, they therefore know a lot about all kinds of tech, and the reality is that’s just not true. There are so many fields that are totally different. But if it did, actually he would look even more idiotic, because Twitter is a train wreck, so clearly he’s incompetent in tech field, right?

Remember that they accurately believed the DNC were horrible. They stopped Hillary. They stopped Biden and Harris. Good for them? Kinda, not really though.

… We know Trump is worse. Far worse. But they saw a legitimate threat, a group of people who were not going to make their lives better, and they took some kind of action to stop them.

And then lots of bigotry. Can’t forget that.

Yes, the whole point was to bring up legal examples, to show the absurdity of trying to read Musk’s mind here when we don’t even do that for murder trials.

This has everything to do with past presidents. They all wanted Guantanamo Bay to stay open so they could torture and imprison people. They did, and now Trump is.

It’s not like nobody could have predicted this. It’s not like nobody told them, “You should stop torturing people, stop imprisoning them there, and close the place down.” … In fact, they all heard that advice and ignored it, because they were happy to forget about human rights.

Of course Trump is doing terrible things, and this is one of them. But he’s not the first, and he certainly won’t be the last. And what you wrote about Kamala is on-point, but you don’t even see it, do you. Would she have closed Guantanamo Bay down? Of course not. Because she feels the same way.

Gitmo should have been shut down two decades ago. Torture, waterboarding, “advanced interrogation techniques” … don’t think we forgot about that. It’s a shame that no American president had the courage to close down dirty military institutions.

You have to clean your grinder? Mine’s going on 5 years without… In answer to your question, I didn’t want to clutter up my kitchen, so I wouldn’t have bought one on my own, but it was gifted.

Ho ho ho. Trump does not hold the cards here. Colombia DNGAF. But Trump does, and he’s digging that hole as fast as he can.

I wonder how this will turn out. There are many laws on the books where individuals can’t file lawsuits, only the government can. But if the government has flat out refused to address the entire swath of issues, that might change standing for the victims. It’s one thing to say that people should contact the feds and ask the feds to pursue the issues, but when that’s a guaranteed impossibility, I think the conditions on the ground change, legally.