I meant to say internet. Tysm for correcting me. I’m truly grateful and humbly request that you take an unchaperoned bath with my teenage daughters.
True, but from my distro-hopping I learned there are quite a few Linux distros that throw tantrums when you try to install w/o wifi, and some ISOs that flat out don’t allow it. I’m not technically sharp enough to find the link, but this and most of my other problems with Linux went away when I stopped using distros built with systemd.
CachyOS is fast, sure. But have you tried Void? MX? Artix? PCLinuxOS? All very fast, and way fewer tantrums/stability issues. Systemd acts like a bureaucrat that checked out long ago, but keeps the job because of the benefits and does it as spitefully as possible. It’s about what I’d expect from a corp like Red Hat, and one day it’ll ask for your government ID to install.
The Linux community should get serious about systemd and how it talks to newcomers about it. It’s annoying now, and it’ll be a liability later.
My understanding is that MAGA is mostly the criminal element of white, upper middle class suburban US. The lumpen bourgeois, with some white senior citizen hanger-ons. Rednecks where I live are largely liberal or apolitical, and my friends in other states say about the same thing.
There’s this liberal myth about the majority of rednecks being virulent racists and MAGA diehards that needs to be put down like a dying dog. It’s perpetrated partly by shutins with little reference to society outside of what they see deliberately conveyed on screens.
While there are unhinged, bigoted rednecks who tend to speak loudly in public, they’re a despised minority who don’t even get invited to family events, in many cases. This can be seen in the suburban variant of MAGA too. It might not be your dad, but instead, your estranged uncle who’s divorced 7 times and can’t hold a job down, while he can’t be trusted not to make things weird at cookouts.
The “redneck = MAGA” trope is kept alive through bourgeois media, like when Taylor Swift depicted a bunch of farmish-looking people as militant homophobes in the video for ‘You Need To Calm Down’, or maybe on boring liberal late night TV.
A clearer picture indicates that MAGA is largely a movement drawing from minorities of the white upper and middle classes, situated in cities and suburbs. They’re mostly small business tyrants who aspire to be big business tyrants, but feel they’ve been held back by changing social attitudes and regulatory government.
The poster child for MAGA isn’t named Cledus, it’s Preston.
This “Uyghur genocide” thing was debunked in like 2021, by Chinese Uyghurs. This argument should not still be happening.
After reading remarks from libs on Lemmy, I want to point out two things:
No significant number of leftists would vote for a real estate mogul turned fascist gameshow host. If you believe otherwise, it’s likely because it makes thinking about the US political situation easier by giving you another illiberal fall guy.
Voting in the US is a pastiche of democratic participation, made to look like we’ve been handed all we need to make the democracy machine go brrr. We revere it so much because it’s the best we’ve ever had, but other braver and more imaginative people have tried more direct, less capitalistic methods of democracy, usually before being crushed, libelled, bombed or couped by the US and its allies. If Americans ever find the backbone to collectively fight and make sacrifices for something better, future generations might have a chance of not growing up in the most grotesque, inhuman future imaginable. Libs can help with this, but you’re the only ones who can decide whether you put your efforts toward capitalism or democracy. They’re like oil and water.