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Now do the US

an insult to cucks to even associate him with them, honestly

It’s an older crime, but you’ll find it quite unbreakable… uhmm, legal

Great, now I just keep imagining Miller crying alone in the dark while singing along to his Korn/Three Days Grace “xXmegamiXx” on Spotify at full volume in front of God and everybody like it’s still 2002 or something

Hey, there’s still time

Ugh, I know it’s a mess as far as the nuts and bolts go at a minimum (and we’ll not get into any inherent flaws in my reasoning, thank you very much lol) but in my defense I had just recently woken up and was in dire need of chemical assistance, and I honestly didn’t even think I’d gone on like I did but I was fired up! lol

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”

• Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States, c. 1787

Not that I think political violence (or violence of any sort, for that matter) should be our first, second, or even thirty-fifth resort, but at a certain point I think one must come to grips with the fact that - whether it fits in with their delicate sensibilities or not - when confronted with an existential peril it does sometimes become necessary to defend oneself. (Fun fact: This is why self-defense can be presented as a valid defense against murder charges!)

Sure, we should absolutely make any and all attempts to be inclusive (Republicans HATE this!) and tolerant (GOP: hiss IT BURNS!) and attempt to reach solutions through education, research, negotiation, compromise and all that lovely (woke?) stuff, but… For some reason, it seems like there’s consistently only one side that ever shows up to the table willing to actually do any of that. And that’s just how it’s been for fucking DECADES now. There’s probably a lot of you (just generally speaking, not necessarily meaning Lemmy’s demographic per se) who aren’t even old enough to remember a time before the GOP began using “government shutdowns” and “debt ceilings” and “literal fucking coup attempts” as part of their standard, day-to-day politicking. Believe it or not (and I know this will probably be the hardest one to buy, but I swear it to be true) there was a time when the Republicans would - even if they WERE NOT in power at the time - STILL SHOW UP AND DO THEIR FUCKING JOBS. I know, what a concept, eh? Imagine going to work every day and just… doing your job, like a fucking idiot, instead of throwing absolute meltdown tantrums over your lack of control over other people’s genitals.

Does any of this strike you as the behavior of (an) entity(ies) engaging in anything even remotely resembling something that could be construed as “good-faith negotiation” - let alone even approaching something as audacious as “compromise?” This isn’t a willing, eager party to an arbitration, quite, is it? No… Something more akin to an assailant with a knife at our throat(s) demanding to inspect our genitals to make sure we’re where they think we should be at the moment certainly sounds more apt to me…

I don’t want there to be violence. Any. At all, really. But at what point does the moral imperative toward nonviolence get outweighed by the moral obligation to the people being kidnapped by masked (supposed) government agents and disappeared to very real, literal concentration camps? How many genocides at once do we need to hit the tipping point where it’s finally acceptable to stand up and say, “That’s enough. This far. No farther.” But actually back that up, for a change.

If that means by force, then unfortunately, so be it. Might doesn’t make right, but that certainly doesn’t preclude it from enforcing it, does it?

Hey, hey, hey… That’s fucked up; you can’t just call someone a ‘genocider’ lile thaf…

It’s genocid*-ist*

Holy fucking wow, that was genuinely significantly worse than I expected and I was expecting it to be pretty bad… There were at least 3 - 4 (minimum) girls pictured in there that couldn’t be much more than 12 or so…

JD Vance: “Well there goes my exit strategy…”

I’m a bit confused here, not gonna lie - partially by the fact that this has apparently come up enough for you to necessitate a “conventional way” to phrase it, but mostly due to that phrase inexplicably being one of the creepiest sentences I’ve ever goddamn read lol

That’s something I would expect to see on like a list of serial killer pick up lines or one of the last outputs from an insane, rogue AI as it launches all our nukes at each other or something

TIL: The Taliban are apparently Geth

👍 sallright

Burma shave trade

The article about it is certainly chock way the fuck full of buzzwords, but did little in the way of instilling in me any desire to actually use the thing… Also, where in the fuck are people coming up with these names nowadays? “Mastodon?Nostr?” What cumbersome, awkward bullshit.

It never fails; Whenever I see someone apologizing for their ‘poor English’ it’s almost always essentially flawless (or, at least, better than the majority of native speakers anyway lol)

Sizing the partitions is a step you (can) take when formatting the drive… And from what I can tell the Envy has an M2 nvme in it, and it just seems crazy to me to basically just ignore that to boot off of an SD card/USB drive…

How sure are you that you want to be using Linux? Lol

Just use Rufus, dude… You can even set the amount of space your image/deployment/instance (whatever the most correct term is lol) persists in, which makes it more convenient if (like me) you find yourself frequently wanting to play around with new and exciting distros.

Also, not to gang up on ya or anything either, but I’m gonna have to second the other commentor’s request for the info on that laptop, as I’ve never encountered one that prevented you from reformatting it… o_0 I would be returning the fuck out of that garbage… Even the non-ARM old chromebooks would let you do that.

How else am I supposed to get these bees outta my teeth then, oh ye who is so wise in the ways of science?

Sometimes, it really do be like that tho