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is seriously organize to support a more left candidate

Americans need to start organizing the network for a general strike and start writing a new constitution.

if Trump tried to make an Executive Order that only Republicans could vote

The way authoritarians have done this before is arrest enough of opposition party members. Other ways of blocking members of Congress to show up for a vote could be travel restrictions due to a state of emergency because of a terror attack for example. You can combine this with other methods.

You might have 5 arrested on made up charges, 4 can't leave their home because of protestors blocking them, 3 are blackmailed, 2 are bribed to stay away, 1 is murdered. This could even start with one or two members of congress getting murdered. Then a state of emergency is called including. Tragically not all members can make it in time to vote in the emergency session.

if federal agents showed up trying to enforce an Executive Order from Trump it is highly likely they would be arrested by the state or city police for interfering in voting.

Trump doesn't need to succeed in all states with this or even send in federal agents. There are enough state governments run by MAGAs, who will fall in line.

Things don't need to be properly done. Some chaos as cover and the slightest plausible deniability is enough.

So you end up with some kind of election reform, that's not accepted by all states. This means the president can declare a further emergency and suspend elections until further notice. Alternatively only elections run according to the new rules are accepted by the federal government. Non compliant states can hold elections, but they will be declared invalid by the supreme court.

somehow he pisses off the base enough

Trump has to placate the billionaire class. If everybody is still making money and gaining power, they're unlikely to break with him.

Trump ordering an invasion of Canada and the military going along with it, will be his demonstration of full powers.

He wants a grand victory parade.

Trumpism isn't Orwellian, it doesn't need to be.

This is going to require constitutional changes

I think it's going to require a new constitution. The American constitution was pretty good for a first try at modern democracy, but it has weaknesses. Look to European constitutions for inspiration regarding balance of power, parliamentary systems, electoral systems, basic rights. A less powerful president and a voting system that doesn't lead to two parties might be prudent for example.

China is building military infrastructure on contested islands in the south china sea with the goal of controlling the whole area firmly including the first island chain and Taiwan.

Countries go with China’s because it is a better deal with fewer strings attached.

There's also no historical baggage with Chinese colonialism in Africa. Fewer strings also means China doesn't care about democracy, human rights, and such.

The USA put a stop to the wars on the Balkans in the 1990s: Bosnia, Kosovo.

Saddam Hussein is another one. Without the USA, he might have continued his expansion after Kuwait into Syria for example.

Latin America has had no major wars, only guerrillas and such for a long time.

The USA made peace between Egypt and Israel possible, a cornerstone for stability in the region.

The USA also kept Europe together with NATO.

Pax Americana is a thing for sure.

maybe we’ll get something entirely new?

The French are on their fifth republic already. A new constitution with better guardrails and different voting system is possible. The USA has a very deeply ingrained idea of freedom and democracy and is unlikely to lose it completely. It might be a good idea to already start thinking about how that new constitution should look like.

Balkanization or a civil war before that happens is certainly in the cards.

Maybe the military

Trump will try and purge all non loyalist officers from the military. That could lead to a fracturing of the military. California for example has big navy, air force, and marines bases, as well as military industry. The states have national guards already and whole units could defect from the federal military to the guard.

If that leads to an internal cold war, balkanization, or a civil war remains to be seen. It will make the US far less able to project force internationally. Queue China taking Taiwan without much US intervention.

90% of distros could vanish tomorrow and nothing of value would be lost. Without the software they are packaging, the ecosystem would vanish.

Instead of donating to the distro, consider donating directly to the software projects you're using.

Distros write a little software as well, but mostly distribute software written by others.

System76 can't feasibly support all the linux distros and their different versions. Especially an unstable cutting edge distro like Fedora. It's too much for such a small company.

back to a Del laptop

Does Dell still offer laptops with official Linux support?

Linus likes to break driver interfaces every other Tuesday though. Meaning you can get stuck on an old kernel version, depending on your hardware. This happens pretty regularly for ARM based boards for example.

Your post smells of someone, who only uses their computer for fairly limited tasks.

Office/Adobe

There's so much software around serious work, creativity, and productivity, that doesn't exist for linux or is meh. CAD, audio, video, music production.

The main reasons I use macOS are GarageBand and apps for DJing. Anything audio still breaks far too often on linux or is otherwise a pain.

OmniGraffle is so fantastically great, there's no linux equivalent. The Affinity suite of alternative applications to Adobe is fantastic and far above any linux alternative.

The nicest GUI application for git, nor the best diff and merge tool aren't available for Linux.

Besides that getting support for commercial software is usually much better than for FOSS.

who the hell ever needs this?

People who love details and crisp fonts and thus own high density resolution screens.

HDR: did not even bother to learn what is

You seem to have moderate expectations towards visual computing.

The ability of Lemmy to alienate even center left liberals never ceases to amaze me. The only way to stop Trump is a broad alliance from center right to left, not some communist revolution fantasy.

Shapiro is far better educated and informed than Rogan. He's more of traditional conservative, who only begrudgingly supports Trump. Of course he's still a propagandist and a liar.

I think it's a mistake to let the right winger take claim to everything related to patriotism and national symbols.

It's not only true for the right. The left has its own problems with propaganda, dogmatism, and fake news. Some of it resulting directly from trying to counter the effectiveness of the right wing. Extreme polarization is the outcome and discourse becomes impossible.

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