I mean, couldn’t we all just join the KKK and vote in a more moderate grand dragon?

Because it suits them to. That is really all there is to it. “Fascism” got such a universally bad name, that even (almost all) fascists dont want yo call themselves such. Instead, they try to use this negatively associated word to describe the people fighting against them.

A friend of mine puts it this way: “I don’t vote for who’s turn it is to lead the KKK either.”

You’ve taught me this lesson only several comments ago. My eternal gratitude for this impartment of zen-like wisdom.

It’s the exact same thing, sweaty. All things are the same. Every person is the same. Every opinion is the same. Every death is the same.

That makes you just as bad as Charlie Kirk 🥸

I don’t give a shit what you think of me.

Charlie’s job was propaganda. He laundered the fascist ideology into mainstream discourse. If my coworker said some of the awful shit Charlie said, I’d just think he was a racist piece of shit, but I wouldn’t celebrate his murder (nor would I mourn it). But Charlie had an audience of millions, and was paid handsomely to spread his fascist propaganda. I opened my nicest bottle of scotch when I heard the news.

Looks like the shooter was also a fascist (groyper Nazi), so I’m not really cheering for him, but I am glad Charlie’s dead.

I’m comfortable with the comparison. If you insist on mythologizing the Nazis as a singular historical phenomenon, you will never recognize them anywhere else. Kirk professed Christianity, while mocking and condemning empathy as “new-age” and damaging. He called for the marginalization, incarceration and even murder of trans people. He was a cheerleader for the large scale paramilitary occupations of major cities. There are many examples of Kirk not simply “having conservative opinions”, but being paid handsomely by billionaires to amplify and normalize these messages of hate. That you think of him as someone “who was just right wing” illustrates the success he had in bringing his evil views into mainstream discourse.

Baby Goebbels.

I am against this in all cases. Your society’s ills are never best treated with more incarceration, particularly when it comes to children.

I can think of few things more boring than databases. I just want my files synced and stored.

Love my Navidrome server, though I use Substreamer on Android since it’s “free” and free.

Clearly the decades of Israeli/US propaganda against Hamas has been falling down. Truthfully, I’m pretty happy with the 60%, and expect more people will continue to open their eyes.

Wtf is wrong with the other 40%?

I’ve been using Linux since 2007, and have tried many distros. I’m very happy with (and recommend) Linux Mint Debian Edition.

I’m not a programmer. My brain just doesn’t work that way. I wish it did. I’ve tried teaching myself Python, and I took a semester of Java. I understand pretty much zero.

“Not only is it necessary to learn the functional programming language to write the declarative config”

Holy shit haha! I’ve never actually looked into NixOS but this right here tells me it isn’t for me.

I don’t mean it as a gotcha. It’s meant to make you reconsider what I see as an unhelpful way of looking at people. If you think in terms of averages instead of in terms of people, I think you lose sight of what you’re trying to achieve. You can think in terms of average (or common) problems people have, and speak to those.