DjangoFett

I miss my city.

Its got hard, dirty edges everywhere, but it is also one of the friendliest, most fun-loving and kindhearted places you will ever have the privilege of visiting.

Just don’t be on any roads during rush hour when people are at their crankiest and make sure to keep valuables close to your skin when in places like Times Square and you will only have good experiences.

I’ll start with the TL;DR, they’re probably bootlickers. To be decidedly less brief:

“Woke” is so stupid in how it is used and meant.

The original colloquialism was about being genuinely aware of what is happening and “awake to reality” with an almost Matrix-like connotation to it. Enlightened, in a sense.

Now it means a tumblrista who has more hair dye than actual sense and is overly concerned with how they feel versus reality. That is, if you are to ask the person in question. And that character assassination doesn’t come from nowhere if we’re being perfectly honest with ourselves.

Anti-woke at this point is associated with fascism in a distinctly similar misrepresentation of the original term, though perhaps still a bit more appropriate. Gotta be brain-dead or asleep to be okay with fascism after all, so it isn’t perhaps as far off the mark.

The person OP describes exists in several instances of the fediverse as well, just wearing a different uniform and flying a few very specific flags. Ultimately they are all secret bootlickers. They secretly worship the strongmen because it allows them to outsource the difficult task of thinking to somebody else who views the world in as simplistic a manner as they do. “That’s not a real thing because I don’t experience it” type energy, so belittling/dehumanizing/othering/criminalizing/persecuting groups becomes okay in either active ways or “doesn’t affect me, why should I care” ways in equal measure.

Again, it is important to note who ultimately comes to the defense of these voices and the commonalities they have with straight up fascists. The person you describe may very well vocally support anti-fascist ideologies at first blush, and yet there’s still some authoritarianism in their slant. Like I said, more than happy to relegate their thinking to some form of “greater power” that still views them as the useful idiot. “Well its working just fine for me!”

Yep, keep licking the boot.

I believe so. Nice to have agreement there.

He thought it was water and so drank the entire thing. This consumption killed him.

So look, I’m ambivalent right now.

Blues are incoming. This is better as at least things will stop getting actively, aggressively worse since Reds won’t have full free reign. I will take what victories I can right now.

However, your entire point remains entirely undisturbed. I don’t believe they will actually do much. What keeps me ambivalent versus bitter is that nothing has had a chance to happen yet. They haven’t been sworn in, nothing but words have been thrown around yet. Talk all you want, I’ll believe it when I see it.

People didn’t believe AOC was gonna be anything. Now I’m not glazing her, but those same people also predicted she would fail immediately. All I said was she has to make it through her first term before we can really take a measure of the girl, and look where we are now. Those folks were wrong and she is a voice that people have no choice but to reckon with one way or another as she has a following and sway within it. Like her or not, those are facts.

There is a glimmer here, and I think what we can expect from the voting public of this generation is the genuine desire for not the same old shit. That’s why we got Trump in the first place; he wasn’t the same old fart who made empty promises. He came in with passion and common speech rather than boilerplate PC phrases and promised to change the status quo. Monkey’s Paw activated on that one for those who voted Trump, but I am seeing that in the current vote as well.

Again, I’ve got no crystal ball to see how it will turn out, but the hope I once had has somehow limped its way out of the rubble of this administration. Doesn’t mean it’ll get very far, it just isn’t dead yet, y’know?

Do they have good people looking into it? The best? Really, seriously, nobody has ever seen people this good at investigating before because they’re gonna find all the corruption?

Don’t tell me about plans you hope to have, show me the fucking results.

Just in case anyone is curious as to what you mean, here’s a brief historical context.

Up until Trump and adjusting for inflation, George Washington was the wealthiest president in history with his net worth contributing an actual percentage of the US wealth at the time. I mean, we were still getting national loans to the tune of a few million dollars per deal and that was considered adequate at the time.

Jefferson used the White House as his personal palace while he was President and spent as much time throwing dinner parties and receiving guests in his dressing gown as being President and trying to undo everything Hamilton left behind out of pure spite.

It wasn’t until damn near Lincoln (1828) that your average man was able to vote, as only those who owned land were considered educated enough to have a say in government, and when Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation we had the “who can vote” conversation all over again, and then once more and with feeling for the women after that.

I cannot argue the logic, but something in me still kicks against the idea of tolerating this kind of bullshit in any way in the future. Like, immediate and unmistakable consequences for espousing certain views - like the genocide of [group of people] for example.

Social consequences aren’t enough because, as we have seen, any amount of tolerance allows Nazis to sway the hurt and impressionable to their side. The weak who wish to project strength will always find it easier to side with those who tell them they were the right ones, the superior ones all along and crush all who disagree.

In this regard, tolerating their ideals in any way has led us to where we are today. “Safe spaces for absolute free speech” allowed for it while the actual moderate voices were shouted down by the vitriol of the Nazis. They festered and found power there and were allowed to and encouraged to do so.

There needs to be a visible consequence for fucking around like that. Just like you fuck around in your car and get pulled over for endangering the public and eventually lose your right to drive a vehicle, so it needs to be with Nazism and those ideals. Humans are humans and deserve to live, period. Fuck your hard on for men with guns, feed people first. Fuck your god, help those in front of you right the fuck now or get out of the way of those who will regardless of which god they prefer if any.

My tolerance for tolerance has worn thin.

I remember being at a parade some thirty years ago when Chuck rolled by on his float. My father went from silent to rather animated, “Hey Chuckie boy! FUCK YOU, CHUCK!” I was still rather young and so I asked what just happened. My father took a moment to compose himself, then stated, “I voted for him to get to where he is and he betrayed me. I have every right to tell him to his face that he failed me and exactly how I feel about it.”

He’s been a disappointment since then.

I want justice you stupid fuck. Bury these fucks while you redistribute their wealth.

Johnny was a chemist

Johnny is no more

What Johnny thought was H2O

Was H2SO4

I always felt like cheats were rewards for beating the game. Once I had accomplished a given thing in a game on my own, I never felt bad about giving it to myself again - especially in the days before saving in games was a standard thing. So even when schoolyard chatter taught me where the warp whistles were in Mario 3, I didn’t use them to get to Boswer until I had got that far myself.

This is the new stable base of Fedora. The distros you mentioned are forks of Fedora.

In a practical sense, this means most of the big changes will eventually make their way to the forks, though when and how these changes are incorporated depends on several things, including but certainly not limited to who is on what development teams, what these changes actually entail and if they are still in alignment with the specific downstream distro’s aims, and many other things I am too ignorant to know of myself.

The beauty of Linux is that you can check it out for yourself with minimal fuss if you’re so inclined. Live USB booting is a pretty slick way to experience an OS without committing to it entirely, and I can’t name a distro that is going to give you a hard time with any sort of dual boot.

So even my shitty mid-range card is now more valuable than when I bought it? What the fuck even is this timeline?

So its the “law enforcement” equivalent ofa petulant child spreading the peas around on the plate to make it look like they ate more than they did, except the peas are human beings and instead of a petulant child its… Well, a petulant child with frightening power over others.

Worst timeline.

The New York Stock Exchange was founded by basically selling shares of itself alongside wheat and tobacco and betting on the fact that it’d be something someday.

“Those who make peaceful protest impossible make violent revolution inevitable.”

I can assure you the actual liberals in America don’t want violence either. Don’t look now, though, because the violence is already happening regardless of what the liberals want. Looks like the kids in France saw that they were headed for an American situation and decided they would make sure the powers that be know they won’t stand for it. They also looted supermarkets to feed the homeless in the process.

When you are sold on an idea and words that quickly turn out to be little more than bait to sucker you in, how long are you willing to take the words of comfort while things around you actively get worse? Everyone has a breaking point. The French happen to be on a hair trigger all the time, sure, but I don’t think these kids are wrong for demanding what they were promised.

The vocal support may be going to Le Pen, but clearly there’s a significant plurality who actively won’t stand for that authoritarian bullshit. Only time will tell where France lands.

There is, unfortunately, no way to know how one would react in a situation until one is put in that situation.

I can imagine, based on what I know of myself, that I’d have gone one of two ways. Either I would have become infinitely more withdrawn and sullen to the point of taking my own life because of the overall repressive situation you very briefly describe, or I would have become an angry, hypersexualized version of myself who would probably have ended up in a similarly early grave through some other, external means rather than deliberately self-inflicted.

Words on a screen, but I am still sorry this happened to you. Nobody asks for this, nobody deserves this, and there are absolutely people in this world who are happier and better off for your presence and who you are, entirely independent of those horrible moments in your life.

Thank you for sharing your story, and I wish you greater joys in your life than all the pain you’ve yet known combined.

Clowns to the left of me

Nazis to the right

Here I am

Stuck in the U S of A