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  • I think a possibility is a series of open source anvil or nixos scripts that you can run on most hardware with minimal changes, in an extendable architecture of some kind to add or remove functionality and they perhaps get maintained by the community or some structure of the kind of Linux distributions.

    This could enable people with minimal skills set up and maintain a reasonably useful but secure environment just by changing a few variables.









  • I didn’t project beyond what conclusions your comment lead me to.

    Please do not put words in my mouth

    See, if I were to quote you directly I would have done it like this.

    Instead I used quotes without the indent, to paraphrase you in a way that I thought both accurately condensed and focused what you wrote in a way that highlighted what it came across to me as a ridiculous question.

    Given the threaded discussion structure where anyone can go back and see exactly what a person has written, the idea that I am somehow able to misrepresent you is a rather odd take.

    Perhaps “defeatist”?

    No.

    Sounded more like existential nihilism to me.

    Paraphrasing me as saying “they’ll win anyway” in regards to fascists (nazis or otherwise) strips what I said of important context.

    You literally wrote

    until fascism wins anyway

    But I did strip the context of neoliberalism because I answered it a sentence later by urging you to get involved to make the world you want.

    There’s nothing “lucky” about voting, anymore there’s lucky in cleaning. You either clean or you’ll live in filth. You either defend your rights or you have them eroded and taken away.

    The Republicans were not always fascists and the Democrats were not always so neoliberal which means things can change if enough people get involved to change them.

    Unions, local elections, political activism etc all matter.

    You don’t expect perfection, you get involved and you vote in the public transport analogy.


  • This “they’ll win anyway” is some miserly nihilistic take - we’ve won against the Nazis before we’ll win again.

    “how many times are as supposed to vote to prevent the fascists from gaining power?”

    Until you can no longer physically vote.

    You are part of a society that still allows you to politically organise around your beliefs, so get involved in your local politics and help bring your vision of a better future to more people - change doesn’t happen by itself.

    Join a union. Get out there and make it happen.



  • Trump’s mouth is both like the broken clock analogy and like the proverbial 10,000 monkeys with the typewriter.

    He also continuously parrots the last thing he heard.

    At that point he was getting presidential briefings and folders of intelligence from the 3 letter agencies when he was visiting other countries, and his top advisers about concerns he should raise with his counterpart.

    He just parroted something that put his host down publicly both because it made him look smug, because he’s a brute and a sexist and because he didn’t like her.

    The content may have been true but that’s no way to conduct international relations with a close ally.

    These concerns are raised in private, unless your intent is to torpedo the alliance - but at the same meeting he told them the us will not come to their aid if Russia attacked, so that’s what it was.






  • I was an avid Reddit user but dropped it like a stone in the kerfuffle - it took a while but Lemmy has now replaced that 90%

    I’d love to see a content propagation analysis.

    My sense is that a ton of new memes are first shared on Lemmy then shared across to other social media.

    …Ok, so the niche forums don’t have critical mass yet, and you’d have to post to some general thread to get any response - but all the cool and thoughtful people are here, so the level of general discourse is higher, I love it.