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  • Democrats Need to Make Republicans Fear the Consequences of Attempting a Dictatorship

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  • No offense taken. We know we're "a third sold country in a Gucci belt". It's not that it started 40 years ago, but that's when it really took off, this speedrun to transferring wealth and power to the already wealthy. They purposely cut funding to education to make an easily manipulated populace, and have been using fear propaganda relentlessly for longer.

    We also learned last time Trump was elected that most of our country was held together by gentlemen's agreements and the idea that our constitution never considered irrational people would be elected.

    Our system is broken, and the ones with the power to do anything about it have no interest in doing so.

    I honestly don't know how we recover from this. Stopping Trump is a bandaid. Rooting out the cancer… 🤷🏼‍♂️

  • Trump: ‘I’m really not trolling’ with talk of Canada as 51st state

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  • We learned that last time Trump was president that most of our country has been run on gentlemen's agreements. It was news to a lot of us as well.

  • Trump: ‘I’m really not trolling’ with talk of Canada as 51st state

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  • Same. I don't honestly know how we recover as a country. Trump isn't the cause, he's a symptom. A tumour with a much larger cancerous problem underneath. At no point will the sane (and actual majority of us) roll over and become fascists. But at the same time, I don't see how the third of the country that has gone full fascist suddenly regains their sanity and joins us.

    The USSR's goal was to divide us, and the Cold War never ended, it just went underground. There is a large part of me that is afraid at this point Balkanization is our future. But how we would we even get there without causing death and destruction?

    But regardless of sentiments about losing faith in us (and I don't blame those that feel that way, they are warranted) I do love you all who recognize that not all of us are the insane ones that make it on TV. We do still value our brothers/sisters/enbys to the north and are proud that we have a friendship unparalleled and the world's longest undefended border. The world is a often a dark and scary place, but it's friendships like these that make it worthwhile.

    I appreciate you internet stranger.

  • Trump: ‘I’m really not trolling’ with talk of Canada as 51st state

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  • You guys are the best. I'm just south of you in the PNW and want us to always have each other's backs.

  • Democrats Need to Make Republicans Fear the Consequences of Attempting a Dictatorship

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  • Yup. The Democratic party is the Republican party of 40 years ago. The Republicans are obviously now literal nazis, fascists, kkk, the worst of the worst. That's all we have and they have no interest in changing that.

    Many of us like Sanders because he is a vocal option that is at least left of the status quo. But there are also so many of us that want European left policies. We just can't get it to happen in a winner takes all style of representation. And capitalism.

  • Trump: ‘I’m really not trolling’ with talk of Canada as 51st state

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  • Can some of us, uh, join you though?

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  • Gotta keep that grift going

  • Atomic Linux Distros: What Barriers Stand Between You and Making the Switch?

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  • Alternative to Silverblue is Bluefin, which is Silverblue repackaged with QoL improvements. I've been using it for a while now and like it in a set it and forget it kind of way.

  • Can you change your Linux distro

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  • Welcome to distro hopping! If at some point in the future you want to try another out but don't want to start from scratch, there are ways to demo them to get a feel and see if it's something you'd like to take the effort to wipe and install.

  • Which Browser Should I Use In 2025?

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  • And as someone who never closes tabs, I love their tab management, from organization to memory.

  • Judge in Abrego Garcia case says there’s no evidence Trump administration is following her orders | CNN Politics

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  • In sane times, yes. But US Marshals are a part of the Dept of Justice, which answers to the Executive. So I'll let you guess how that would play out if they were ordered to arrest Trump or anyone else in his circle.

  • Fund managers quietly fear Trump doesn’t have a tariff plan and that he ‘might be insane’

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  • That still feels like too much thought/reasoning for him. I could see some other idiot connecting those dots and convincing Trump it was his idea. Or just Putin trying to crash the economy.

  • Nextcloud (PHP) vs OpenCloud (Go)

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  • Yeah, I'm more or less just using NC for a cloud storage with WebDAV. I don't really need all the other bits. So if NC were modular in that you could install or not the core pieces, that would be great.

  • Wisconsin teen allegedly killed parents in extremist plot to assassinate Trump, FBI says

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  • I know, right? There are some people that just are mentally broken in some irreparable way, but that's a small percentage. The rest, it's just so hard to imagine what led them here. And it's sad that it's come to this.

  • Trump officials growing tired of ‘unfunny’ and ‘irritating’ Musk

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  • Yeah, that was my first thought that he really hadn't because unless he micro-microdosed or just said he did to be "cool", which is on brand for him, there's no way he did hallucinogins and still came out the other side like that.

  • I'm committing to Linux, but it's so unstable. Any suggestions?

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  • If it makes you feel any better it sort of is Fedora. Fedora has both original and atomic flavors. Someone took the atomic flavor of Fedora (which comes as a blank slate) and added in some quality of life changes. Nothing permanent, just tweaking some settings and preinstalling some programs. And then called it as Aurora.

    And the only difference between Aurora and Bluefin is KDE (very customizable and Windows like) vs Gnome (customizable through widgets, but not enough if you're a power tweaker and more of a Mac style desktop environments). And Bazzite is the same, but gamer focused (I installed it on my steamdeck).

  • Nextcloud (PHP) vs OpenCloud (Go)

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  • Yeah, I love NC but boy is it a pain. If there were a similar but less bulky, less clunky option that wasn't a pain to maintain, I'd be all over that.

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    Very cheap VPS for hosting proxies

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  • Yeah, seconded on Tailscale. I love how easy it is to get working. Only fear is the recent announcement of venture funding and future enshitification, but right now it's amazing.

  • I'm committing to Linux, but it's so unstable. Any suggestions?

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  • Yeah, I didn't want to be not supportive of your choice of distros, but my immediate thought was not Ubuntu... I use it headless for some homelab servers, but nowadays as far as desktops go, Ubuntu is not it.

    Someone below mentioned Aurora, Bazzite's sister. I currently use Bluefin, which is another of Bazzite's sisters, also on Framework, and it has been pretty set it and forget it. They're all "atomic" desktops in that it's hard to be able change the underlaying important parts of your computer, while you have free reign on all the bits that aren't important to keep the lights on. Updates happen frequently, but don't touch your files on top, so it's always the latest, and if something does break, you can easily boot up into the last image you were on.

    If you're not looking to tweak your computer too much and just want it to run, I'd recommend Aurora or Bluefin depending on your desktop preferences.