aberrate_junior_beatnik (he/him) @ aberrate_junior_beatnik @midwest.social

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You are perpetuating the harmful and false stereotype that mentally ill people are more violent than mentally healthy people. Mentally ill people are more likely to be on the receiving end of violence from mentally healthy people than the other way around.

Bringing a gun into a situation is antithetical to deescalation. The presence of a gun means the stakes have now escalated to life and death. It doesn't matter how "well trained", sensible, or humane the person with the gun is; the situation is now escalated and thus much more volatile.

Chamber of Commerce Republicans sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

Chamber of Commerce Republicans reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

I avoid gas stations that have ads. There's a chain where I live that doesn't do them, so they get all my business.

I completely agree with his points but enshittification is such a cringey word

Although Biden claims to be “outraged” by the killing of aid workers, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said the US wouldn’t leverage its extensive military aid, or anything else for that matter, to “hang some sort of condition over [Israel’s] neck.”

I heard he might also get oven more outraged.

Just make sure you're carrying a large amount and you should be good.

Does that make him a poor craftsman or an extremely good craftsman

This is an insane attempt at analogy. Nobody's suggesting Biden sexually assault the DEA or anyone at the DEA, or anything of the sort.

Why?

If people took half of the energy they spend shaming people for not adhering to the two-party system and turned it to pressuring Biden to be a better candidate he'd have switched positions by now

Wanting to stop Israel from murdering children: "catering to me and my friends"

People shouldn't stay home on election day just because Biden is a terrible piece of shit. People should go at the very least to vote down ballot, if not to vote against Trump. Nor should people feel hopeless. There are so many avenues to pursue outside of simple electoral politics (again, do vote). But I'm not going to cave to this loyalty test bullshit. Also the money is good, praise Mother Russia.

In short, your words are not neutral.

Yes. That is literally what I said.

Look, I agree that "telling it like it is" can be a toxic trait (although as long as we're discussing the subtext, it's interesting that you used the example of "girls". I'm sure you didn't mean to, I'm not leveling accusations at you, we all do this to some degree or another, but that is definitely an appeal to misogyny. You could have compared me to Bill Maher, which frankly would have pissed me off a whole lot more). But the truth does matter, and appeals to nuance/arguing procedural or rhetorical points while ignoring the realities is also toxic. Children in Gaza are dying, and Biden has actively helped with that. Call it propaganda, call it whatever you want, but innocent people are dead, as a result of a genocidal campaign helped by Biden.

It's not both-sides to say that Genocide Joe sucks ass. Yes, Trump is worse. But Biden is still awful. I don't say that in some effort to appease the right or sound somehow neutral, I say it because it's true.

America also deserves someone better

Do we really? I'm not so sure.

The meme text itself refers to "frequent" updates. Seems weird to compare apples to oranges, since release updates are not frequent. Even still, updating from buster to bookworm was relatively painless; certainly not 3 hours of reconfiguration. Before that, I was on Ubuntu, and the release updates were also painless; I remember multiple times not needing to do anything except uncomment the sources.list(.d) changes.

[edit: Another quick point. Since Debian/Ubuntu manage configuration for you to some extent, you don't need to fix configuration files as often as you would need to on Arch, hence not needing to do ~20+ config changes for two years of updates all at once.]

I'm running 4 Debian machines, all configured to automatically update every night, and this has never happened to me.

Reminder: Hamas does not have a presence in the West Bank. Mass killings of Palestinians have never been about containing or defeating Hamas. The killing, destruction of property/seizure of land, and creation of fear are the point.

Two people who were willing to publicly admit it. The article provides indications that more may have switched over, including that Donald Trump proclaimed anyone who contributed to Haley is out of the MAGA camp, and that the Biden campaign is actively courting them.

Besides, there's less than a hair's breadth between Haley and Biden politically.

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Those who do learn from history are doomed to watch as those who did not learn repeat it.