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Yeah, sex is cool, but have you ever closed like 50 browser tabs after finishing an annoying project?
One mostly exports the genocide to the third world
The other wants to bring it home.
I'm from Mastodon
But I got to Mastodon from Reddit, so idk if that counts. :P
I am going to commit several violent acts (in Stellaris)
At the same time, years of propaganda by monied interests have led us up to this point
See you're right but --
-- Those monied interests are also coming from within. The wealthy and powerful from America who see this as a way to consolidate and protect their own wealth and power.
Silicon Valley wanted Neofascism. Wall Street wanted Neofascism. Fracking Barons like the Koch Brother(s) wanted Neofascism. Some out in the open, like the afore-mentioned Koch(s) and Elon Musk, but make no mistake, every billionaire who "shuts up about politics" is most likely a Neofascist in private, because this benefits them.
The people in America are heavily propagandised, but that propaganda is funded and developed by and for the benefit of the wealthy within America itself.
Some people lean really hard into the whole "russian influence" thing because it is comforting. And it is entirely possible that there ARE Russian fingers in this pie -- Russia does benefit from a weakened America, in any way they CAN weaken it. Heck, China and the Middle Eastern powers do too, so maybe they have fingers in that pie too.
But never forget that it started with wealthy Americans, and not some foreign agent. And if every foreign influence walked away, it would continue without them.
Theoretically, The Revolution™ that lefties like me talk about could change things. Just like theoretically, a peaceful political reform could change things. Theoretically.
But I'm from the third world. Hopelessness is my ~~bread and butter~~ rice and beans. So I'm entirely accustomed to daydreaming of one day things changing, while expecting elections to change nothing, and knowing for a fact that any attempt at armed fighting would most likely end in a victory for the bad guys (they have the bigger guns).
The idea of "things are already fucked, have been since before you were born, if you want to make a difference, look out for yourself and those you CAN help, make a difference in the micro, because The System as a macro thing is outside your reach entirely" is in fact how most people have dealt with things since forever, and we survive.
This post is about recovery, not abandonment
Recovery from what? Fascism is what your own neighbours chose. This is the system working exactly as intended and pretending it's not is covering one's own eyes. There are hundreds of millions of Americans for whom this is a good day. They have the backing of the wealthy and powerful. And their project is to remove any chance of them ever losing power again.
Thinking you'll stop something like Project 2025 in the ballot box is willful ignorance at this point.
Since OP has already made it clear that "violent uprising" is not on the cards, then the alternative is to get out while they can. Hopefully while helping others do the same. Save themselves and their own. Survive and maybe you can make a difference from the outside.
When Germany went all Nazi in the 30s~40s you know who DID make a difference? Not the political opposition who got slaughtered. And not the people who let the Nazis walk all over them while claiming they were still better because they were "civil". It was resistance fighters who helped the allies fight and minorities to escape. And people who got out of Germany and then joined the fight on the side of the allies.
Also:
Eat shit.
Don't threaten me with a good time, gringo <3
~~This has actually all been a very elaborate "come to Brazil" meme on my part.~~
~~Jokes aside, given how a lot of our people tend to worship the floor 'Murica walks on, if a bunch of refugees from the US came over, they'd probably be welcomed with open arms. :P~~
It would.
But I think that ship has sailed.
And honestly it might be the third-worlder-accustomed-to-things-being-uttter-bullshit in me. But I think "Winning back the country" is an unrealistic and foolhardy goal. Everyone who is on the radar for being harmed by Trump should look out for themselves and their own. Which includes "getting the fuck out of the country" if that is what it takes.
Additionally: A significant portion of the country won today. They got exactly what they wanted. And pretending that this neofascism is some kind of external infection is tantamount to covering one's own ears.
Honestly at this point y'all should just get the fuck out. Where to? Anywhere honestly. You'll probably find the third world preferable to a post project 2025 Murica.
Russia's been having a major brain drain issue as all people with functioning brains either have escaped or want to escape the country. I don't see why Americans should do any different.
The entire system is alien to me, with the districts and the electoral college and (...)
It's so -- Simple -- Here.
WELL
At least presidential choice is simple here, the legislative houses are their own beast.
But yeah here it's just: Each (properly registered, though registration can be done through the internet) adult person gets one vote, if a candidate gets 50%+1 they are in, if none manage to get that there is a run-off round with the top 2 or 3 candidates.
Over there it's like people from certain states have their votes be worth more than people from other states, and then there's the whole "winning the district" thing and the whole idea of red/blue/swing states. So much complexity.
Translation:
Riot Police watches as a patriot (read: fascist) gets into a brawl with Spider-Man, while a dildo flies by, and Mano Brown (famous rapper) films it all.
Just an insane event from the annals of my country's history.
Went away from my computer for a bathroom break. When I came back I noticed it took a very long time to wake up. But that was the least of my worries, as Plasma seems to now be really bugged out:
Two things: Window decorations (like the ones at the top with the buttons to close and such) do not render properly. That's the simple part
The other, weirder one, is harder to explain in text so I made a video -- The short version is that whenever I mouse over any icon in a panel, be it a tray icon or something on the taskbar thingie -- it seems to jump to the top-right corner of that panel. Though only visually (as in, to interact with it, I still have to click the blank space the icon once occupied)
I have also noticed that icons within qt6 windows do not show in the proper place
These persisted after reboots.
Other info:
- Linux/KDE Plasma: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed 20240531
- KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.5
- KDE Frameworks Version: 6.2.0
- Qt Version: 6.7.1
- Kernel: 6.9.3-1-default (64-bit)
- Graphics platform: X11
Extra details about system (idk maybe it helps?):
- I have an AMD Processor and GPU
- All the things I have installed are either from the official SUSE Repos or from Flatpak. There's also some appimages and local executables in my user folder. There is 1(one) application I compiled from source and installed system-wide, and that was Orbiton, a text editor for terminal.
- When I update the system I get a notification about how updating glibc-32bit would break Steam. So I marked it as untouchable on YaST. Maybe this broke something else? Idk.
Things I have already tried:
- Updating the system
- Rebooting
- Changing theming configurations back to system defaults (hey, you never know)
- Moving widgets around in panels
- Disabling fancy effects
- Disabling and re-enabling my second monitor/changing which monitor is the primary
- Asking nicely
Things I have not tried:
- Switching to Wayland (I would do so permanently but it breaks Inkscape for me and that's part of my workflow -- Plus I'm new to SUSE, and the last time I switched from X to Wayland was on EndeavourOS, dunno if the process is any different)
- Crying
I have also posted this to the kde bug tracker. Posting it here to in hopes of getting an answer sooner :P
EDIT: I gave it some time to see if it would stick and it did. So. "Going into the Plasma Renderer settings and switching it to OpenGL" was the solution to my issue, even if I have no idea what caused it, I at least seem to have fixed it
Been a long time since last I've seen a good honest Snafu
I guess it does feel like 2016 in here with neofascists on their way back to power in the US and all that.