You should get his name right if you’re going to incite action against him.

Not to be pedantic, but you might want to fix that typo. “Purpose”, not “propose”.

Trump’s holding rallies that explicitly promise a violent dictatorship and call for killing some of the most oppressed groups of people, and he’s about to be elected President for the second time. Then people like these cops are going to be celebrated and encouraged.

But then how would they violently enforce white supremacy and the interests of capitalists?

It’s just the global turn to fascism, that’s all. Just humanity dealing with crisis in the most stupid and destructive way it possibly could.

Hanson’s razor

Hanlon’s Razor

Why would anyone have thought it was over?

Many of them are too cowardly to admit they support the actions of said cunt.

The Kremlin may have had to work hard in 2015-2016, but I bet they don’t need to work so hard now that MAGA has become self-sustaining. No doubt they’re doing their bit, but these days they have more help than ever from inside the USA.

There’s a long history of Americans and other Westerners thinking it’s all those other countries that do propaganda. Meanwhile, the less propaganda you see, the more effectively the propaganda is working on you. Americans are some of the most propagandized people in the world.

The only crime for which he’s truly being incarcerated.

With many of the characteristics of Nazism.

Occam’s Razor would suggest this is largely a domestic problem, perhaps exacerbated by foreign adversaries but far from being all their work.

That’s a good analysis, and helpful. Thanks!

There go the Republicans again with their commitment to free speech.

The really weird move is how right-wing attitudes in the USA have gone from distrust of government and its “interference” in their lives, through distrust of autocracy, to strong support for fascist autocracy that would be highly oppressive and invasive into people’s lives. The last step is astonishing.

I agree that it gets bogged down and needs a reinstall sometimes. But after I recently installed it on a new machine that also has Linux, Windows 11 still feels comparatively slow. I get the impression that even out of the box it has too much baggage and unoptimized code. Edge is fast though, and a perfectly good browser. Edge even runs on Linux too, which is surprising.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed most of the time on the desktop, and some Debian and Ubuntu servers.

I use Windows a lot of the time, because I need to use several pieces of professional Windows software. But yes, I use Linux some of the time too, and I find it more relaxing.

Well, I used to be quite positive about Windows 11. The WSL thing is cool, being able to use bash and Linux tools. The hypervisor thing is cool, enabling fast virtual machines. And the styling is all round better than any previous Windows at least since Windows 7. But then I’ve had systems broken by updates more than once recently, everything feels slow, applications hang all the time, the Start menu still doesn’t work, even opening File Explorer leaves me wondering whether it noticed my mouse click, I have to fight it to create a local user account instead of a Microsoft account, fight it to avoid unwanted tracking, fight it to stop the ads popping up in all kinds of corners by running a network-wide DNS filter which reports huge amounts of requests to Microsoft telemetry domains, fight it to make sure file don’t end up in OneDrive, and it still can’t handle USB sticks reliably, it still steals focus constantly from wherever I’m typing, there are far too many services eating up resources, and so on.

It’s just constant low-level frustration that I just don’t have with other operating systems, because Microsoft has cut out QA and spent years prioritizing marketing strategies, gimmicks and cosmetics instead of improving the things that matter to users.