Stalin had no successes. The Soviet people made many achievements in spite of him. That doesn’t retroactively justify he nor Lenin. Any more than the successes under capitalism justifies it’s brutally and oppression or its leaders. Either both are bad, or you’re just playing dishonest calvinball or some sort of kayfabe.
What about the 3rd? Goth, Visigoth, and the elusive High-visa goth.
Agreed. The West and the media at large are definitely problematic. But not the problem themselves. No more than the people of China Russia India Etc are. It’s the wealthy ruling class, east or west that are the issue.
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Posting is definitialy engagement. It’s explicitly the opposite of letting them have the last word. Especially when you continue to engage afterwards.
Maybe I’m an uncouth Ozark hillbilly who’s parents grew up in houses with dirt floors. Maybe it was some masterdebater super move on your part. But my problem with it as you put it. Specifically is that even you didn’t seem to respect it afterwards. 🤷♂️
Your first post way up top was “adequate”. You’ll never win 100% in the face of drama. Continuing to post, you’re just weakening it.
Why post disengage. Why not just do it. As an administrator, as a moderator it’s clear you knew what the correct actions were. You just couldn’t take your own advice. And it only gets worse from there.
I’m not here to take a side in the greater argument. I wasn’t here for it, and don’t have a dog in the fight necessarily. That and I suppose “oh no, drama in a drama sub”. But whatever impression or perception I had of you. At this point you’re tarnishing. Not that that necessarily means anything. I’m no one special. Not that the original accusation wasn’t hyperbole. But you are only lending it credence the more you post now.
Yes i have an arm based chrome tablet. No longer supported by google. It’s a bit underpowered. But works fantastically with post market. Few little bits of hardware here and there not supported. Mostly camera due to device tree shenanigans since it’s mobile style hardware.
KDE touch is so close. Just falling apart on edge cases most of the time, often due to limited resolution. Honestly something like Niri under Wayland with the rest of the KDE suite might solve some of it.
By yeah. I’m in a similar boat. A slightly better device and better KDE touch. I’d just keep a cheap cell around as a modem. Hell someone design a proper open host board that I could just drop a CM5 or similar in. With GPS 5G WiFi 6 BT5 and a software solution to RCS/call. It would be a shut up and take my money type situation.
I mean it’s literally in the nickname the use for themselves. G.rumpy O.ld P.edophiles
I guarantee it. That it something equally shitty.
Nah, charged with 100,000 volts at 10 amps.
Firearms are a double edged sword. Maybe they help, maybe they hurt. But when society turns against you, and no place is safe for you. All the guns in the world even in the face of an unarmed populace won’t save you.
A combination. The hardware was woefully out of date before it launched. But for every one of us that would tolerate buggy software to tinker with it. There are thousands that can’t or won’t. Thousands NEEDED to support a project like this.
Mobile/touch interfaces under general *nix right now are 10 to 15 years behind. KDE touch is good generally. I hear decent things about GNOME too. But not to the point of early android or iOS. It will get there but there’s still a lot of pain ahead.
What I’d really like beyond the software to make use of it. Is a small compact interface for network and interaction. That you could just drop and swap compute modules in. A CM5 is still underpowered. But if it was just a drop in replacement. Where you could change out the SOC or use the SOC in a new interface package i’d be set.
Violence is the answer for authoritarians. But it never lasts. Because it’s just a tool. The answer is respect, justice, and consent.
Without them you end up in inane cycles of violence like we have now.
And even there. There’s no guarantee. Going to Europe where fascists in Russia, Hungary, etc loom? Maybe you’ll be safe a little longer somewhere on the Asian continent with the currently slower rolling fascist forces there. But it’s only temporary. You can’t ultimately escape.
The question is. Where well the breaking point be for most people. What event will cause the public to drag these fuckers from their homes and hold them responsible. Because that’s what it’s going to take. For them to remember that they rely on us. Not only for their wealth. But continued existence. Only when that fear has been driven into them, will things even start to get better.
And it might surprise us. It may just be a red state that does it. One of these Republican sycophants getting dragged from a town hall. Assaulted by a whole community for their rolls in making things worse for everyone. Police are going to have a hard time locking up a whole town. And these elected ghouls that love to ignore their constituents will reel in terror. To be clear, violence isn’t the answer. Fear is. The fear of knowing we far outnumber them. That they could be subject to violent accountability at any moment. Dragged from their safe beds even.
Sometimes there’s family or other things you just can’t take with you. Support structures you might not have somewhere else. Friends and neighbors. Mutual aid.
There can be circumstances that override that. But honestly, the more that flee. The easier it is to get what the fascists want. And at best you’re only helping yourself short term. Because no matter where you go. They will come for you if they can.
Was thinking more let’s make a deal, but sure he he.
The intention was to instigate discussion. Which it did. Otherwise it would have been just another link that someone might have skimmed over.
Using it would have been treating it as a secret code that it is and not highlighting it. By highlighting it Etc the only way it was being used was as an example for people to inform themselves and learn from. Used to see that sort of bullshit all the time over on Reddit. Thankfully Lemmy is a better space.
At least one person has. And one more aware of always a good thing.
The world and what is going on makes so much more sense when you have a basic understanding of Republican code speak and dog whistles. Like how Republicans are currently dispatching National Guard from states with high crime, to states with lower crime. Claiming that it’s about crime. On the face of it it doesn’t make any sense. Unless you understand that they’ve turned the word crime into a dog whistle / code word for black/brown/Jewish/liberal etc. When it comes to Republicans everything is about racism and white supremacy. Granted echoing is a bit more esoteric and slightly less common code / dog whistle from them.
Yep. The United States was one of the bigest inspirations for Nazi Germany. It goes back to the countries founding unfortunately.
Trolls come from everywhere. Unless you could get the troll themselves to be honest. Truth be told will likely never know their origin. But it’s pretty clear from most of the language they’ve been using that they are most likely anti west etc.
Pointing that out honestly seems much less controversial to me then the rest of my post. But i know there has been some recent beef between the instance this community is hosted on and one of theirs.
But since you asked and this is a semi official comm. And just removing the one abbreviation seems silly. I’ll just nuke it.