$700 to feed my family, gone.
steak and shrimp, amirite?
Because of Poe’s Law, I do have to clarify that I am being EXTREMELY fucking sarcastic. I’m sorry for your struggles. I have lots of struggles of my own, but food security is not one of them, thankfully. I’m sorry <3
I hope the Dems are able to do more than we fear they won’t and are able to fix some of this shit.
Fuck fascism.
Wow, so you’re saying they could make it twice as accurate?
Well figuratively fuck you then! :)
Have you heard of Charles Dickens?
Well, okay. :(
Oh, I thought you were talking to me for a minute there.
;-)
Can’t find any news either. Be nice if it’s true, though. heh
The thing that worries about these people is that I don’t think we’re really sure how many of them are out there and how far they can be radicalized and how far they’ll go.
I don’t intend to fearmonger, but honestly state the above. But with the above comes the flip side: While some of these types of people have gone on murdering sprees, there haven’t been many, and it’s usually been that they’ve selected some target and some of them succeed and some of them don’t.
The thing that actually worries me is that I think we may face an uptick in the rhetoric that drives some of these people to go out and shoot people; we may see groups like Proud Boys decide to go shooting instead of intimidating.
I don’t know. I’m not saying these things are going to happen, but it’s the thing that worries me most about that background level of nationalism and the people building up incel communities.
That said, this election gives me some hope. For a good while, I didn’t really see a path out of fascism, but if we can get enough actual progressives in power and force the establishment Dems to be more progressive, get enough going to give us a blue President in two years with enough in Congress to get shit done AND if there’s enough progressives in there to help real change happen, we might be able to show the American people that government isn’t broken - just Republicans and establishment Democrats are. IF, and by damn that is just about the hugest if of all time, IF we can pull that off, maybe we can pull back from the brink of fascism - and by brink I mean more like we’re already over the edge hanging on to a comically small tree root hanging out the side of the cliff with our fingers losing strength.
I’m hopeful that this low-level rumbling of fascist nationalist racist bullshit will remain low-level.
Haha, das ist urkomisch. Wenn das hier das Deutschland der 1920er-Jahre wäre, würden wir Deutsch sprechen – tun wir aber nicht, wir sprechen Englisch. Warte mal, tun wir das etwa nicht? Ach du Scheiße! Ach du Scheiße, du hast recht! Oh, fick mich doch, wie kommen wir zurück nach … na ja … bloß nicht nach 2026, suchen wir uns ein anderes Jahr aus. Vielleicht 1990, und wir machen dieses Mal einiges anders?
Yeah, that was my reaction to the title as well, but the article makes it clear that there is a fresh new uprising by the Christian Nationalists to try and truly take over. They’re a part of the MAGA idea, but a lot of Republican politicians are less about nationalism and more about serving their corporate masters.
So if this truly is nationalists moving to take over the party, it could really be a big deal.
Or it could fizzle.
I don’t know how much actual support these fascists have, but THESE are the people champing at the bit to shoot their guns at “libruls”. So it’s really not a Good Thing™. But as to how serious a threat, I’m honestly not sure.
Far-right activist and pardoned January 6 rioter Jake Lang, however, is planning an event in DC on January 3. It is unclear how many people are planning to attend, but one of the Christian nationalist pastors listed by Lang as an official speaker has said he won’t be speaking.
Lang, who spent last weekend disrupting a cat convention that he thought was a furry convention, did not respond to a request for comment.
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Because of course you can.
I will say, in the world where you can’t do anything with “con:” or “prn:” or a few others in DOS, the fact that you CAN force Linux to let you completely and utterly fuck yourself if you truly want to… is great. lol
First of all, it pleases me greatly that you appreciated the palindromic nature of it. That pleased me as I wrote it (you know how you can write something and realize that it’s unintentionally great? lol)
Second of all, it pleases me that you tried it. lol. I was originally a DOS/Windows guy, so while I know a tiny bit of the Deep Magic, it’s safe to say I’m a fairly average user on the Linux side of things, though I do love learning.
How brilliant. Just like with rm / -rf protection that you can override, but must override… I had actually assumed (without thought) that sudo and apt were built-in commands like dir and cd in DOS, so there wouldn’t be anything to remove. But makes sense that everything is a package.
Today, thanks to you, I learned the most delightful thing. Thank you. <3
Nah, you can’t invoke Terry Pratchett to try to white wash nazis. First of all thats wildly insulting to Terry, secondly it is just as simple as they are fucking evil.
Good thing I fucking wasn’t then. If you can’t be bothered to comprehend clearly written language, bugger off somewhere else. You misunderstand me AND downvote? No, fuck your disrespect for me and for Sir Terry.
If you want to disagree, that’s one thing, but to completely disregard what I said and imply that I would sully Pratchett is unforgivable. Fuck all the way off.
It’s not that I think you’re wrong per se, but I think this way of thinking is interesting.
One of the things I’ve come to believe after reading the Discworld novels by Sir Terry Pratchett - and I think this is an incredibly important insight about humanity and humans - is that there are no good people or evil people. There are only people. And those people - we people - choose to do things that are good (or at least we believe so), or evil (or we choose to not care about the consequences for others for our actions).
And the reason I think that is critical: Let’s talk about Hitler. Most people say Hitler was evil. But I say: He was not evil. He was simple a person that chose to do all of those things that he did.
The truly scary thing is that any person can choose to do those evil things. And we know this: Look at all the people who go out and shoot a bunch of people or shoot up a school. Those are “normal” people, for the most part. If you rode the bus or were waiting in some line with them, you’d make small talk about the weather and such.
I choose not to do those things, like you choose not to do them. And unfortunately, some people do choose to do those things. People choose to work for ICE, they choose to abuse the noncitizens and even citizens they interact with. They might feel trapped by the money, but they still choose to keep working there and doing those things. They choose to lie to themselves and try to make themselves feel better about it.
Not that I’m perfect. I can reflect on my life and see times when I’m selfish and stupid and do things that onconvenience others or harm them, and I don’t like those parts about myself.
It’s all about choices. We do not choose our circumstances; only how we react to them and by what we choose to do.
Technically, that article is the LONGEST SONG INTRODUCTION OF ALL TIME. Just sayin’.
You get the third half :)
Memory free
Memory free? I’ll take a half dozen!
sudo apt remove apt sudo
Willful ignorance is such a sad thing to see. Good-bye.
As I’ve become more disabled over the years, I’ve learned that there is something that a lot of people with disabilities think: “Am I disabled enough?”
I’m a wheelchair user. I can just manage to put my wheelchair in the trunk and get to and from the driver’s seat. I didn’t have a placard for a good while because it just felt weird parking in handicapped parking. I often queestion myself: Do I need this accommodation?
It’s apparently a common question.
The reason I bring that up is that the fucking backwards austerity religious bullshit in this country has led to a “Can Do” attitude that in and of itself is fine and sometimes helpful, but leads to people feeling guilty for needing help to feed their kids and bullshit like that.
Everyone deserves to eat. And, like, not gruel. Sure, maybe not steak and lobster or whatever, but people deserve to eat good food and not work 100 hours and get help with healthcare and other things.
Life being bearable is the barest minimum standard above “being kept alive at the pleasure of others on their whims”.