Exactly.

It’s just another capitalist publication, out there to get you to read whatever inflammatory crap they print in order to sell ads.

It’s been a weird summer.

It took Harris two months to do the very basic thing of putting a platform on her website, and in that two months, you heard absolutely nothing about policy. What you heard were two memes repeated ad infinatum: Joy and Weird. Then since the debate, they’ve added a two new memes: The Dogs and Crowd Size. The reality is that she can’t talk about Biden’s record because most of the country has to work harder for less money than they did in 2020.

Meanwhile I don’t currently have a car because I’ve lent mine to my 80 year-old parents so they can drive for DoorDash every day, because if they can’t, this government will let them become homeless. This is happening in a time when the Democrats had the presidency and Congress for two years, and from what I can tell, all they really cared to do was make the wealthy even richer and find ways to involve our country in more war.

How am I supposed to be joyful? If you’re a wage earner, you’re already living under fascism, because if you don’t work that 60-80 hours a week, this country will let the monied destroy you.

I don’t think it’s a matter of opinion that a country, voting explicitly to give more WMD’s to a genocidal regime mid-genocide, is doing anything other than giving it a very clear stamp of approval.

Yes it will.

No, it won’t.

Forty-plus years of partisan voters incrementally deciding that nothing mattered more than team color has led inevitably to these circumstances. Unless you are a billionaire or willing to commit an act of terrorism (neither of which apply to me or you, most likely) you have no meaningful power whatsoever to change this.

There is a very real possibility that a person will come to power in this election who will end elections in the United States

And yet, you expect me to believe that voting for the party that just wasted four years not fighting fascism nor strengthening elections is somehow going to prompt different behavior? I don’t know how you’ve managed to convince yourself that voting Democrat changes anything meaningful at this point, as the evidence we have all points to the contrary.

Do you define sending weapons to Israel as “enthusiastically participate?”

Yes. I don’t think that’s unfair or inaccurate. Sending more WMD’s to a genocidal regime is enthusiastic participation by defintion.

Wait until millions of people of the wrong ethnicity inside the United States are dying in concentration camps

It won’t be my fault. It will be the fault of the 99% who always vote party regardless of the quality of the candidate. Heck, six weeks ago both parties were literally telling me I had to vote for an evidently cognitively-impaired candidate as a moral imperative.

It all ties back to Democrats, because they enthusiastically participate in war crimes, and that’s a problem for me.

She may or may not be ideal

I can look back on the last 40 years of Democratic rule and come to a very objective point of view on this. She’s Reagan with lipstick.

I remember people ridiculing Bernie because he pointed out that he’d been one of the few who voted against the Iraq War, despite the fact that it turned out he was right. There were no WMD’s. The US spent trillions and all they did was destroy millions of lives and make a handful of rich people even richer, when they didn’t need the money in the first place.

That’s why these wars keep happening. They’re wonderful for unaccountable wealth transfer. It’s why we’re involved in Ukraine. It’s why we’re helping Israel commit genocide. It’s why we’ve helped Saudi Arabia brutalize Yemen for the last eight years.

If Harris wants my vote, tell me you’re going to cut the military budget, not increase it.

Literally just Mint.

And yeah, I kind of just assumed dual-boot was a big part of the issue. I’m planning to repurpose my old PC to be a non-gaming Linux PC for everything but gaming when I upgrade later this year. Will be perfect for me to have a system for gaming only and one I can use for everything-but to protect my privacy.

Our species is monstrous and we deserve to be destroyed by a giant meteor.

If we’ve learned anything over the last 14 years, it’s that protests don’t change a dang thing. They look cool on social media, depending on the competency of the people running them, but nothing whatsoever changes unless there is a legitimate violent threat to state power.

If only symbolic movements like this actually mattered. :(

That’s good to know. Is it user-friendly?

Sadly, that’s the distro I had when I did my dual boot last summer. My Lenovo just isn’t compatible with it.

Issues are not worth my free time.

Exactly. I will say though that I learned a lot, so it’ll be easier when I go back. I do plan to give Ubuntu a try as I’ve read it plays nicer with Nvidia.

My plan is to have a gaming-dedicated system for Windows and a non-gaming system for literally everything else on Linux.

It’s stupid, agreed.

But it’s not like any major changes are made because of the data we collect on the oceans or the weather, so it feels irrelevant. We still dump tons of garbage in the ocean every day, are still grossly overfishing, and it’s a ‘historic’ hurricane season every year.

Also, I too love Linux, but when I ran a dual-boot for six weeks last summer I had to troubleshoot it almost every single day. Because of that I ended up just going back to Windows and making sure I keep it clean with O&O ShutUp. Some systems just aren’t compatible with Linux and mine is one of them.

Even when it was working, only approximately half of my games ran on it, so I needed Windows anyway. (Though that may be on me for choosing Mint instead of a more gaming-centric distro.)

I’m going to go back to Linux when get a new system and can have a gaming-dedicated PC, but for now, I’m stuck with Windows.

Definitely.

Also, don’t invest in companies that hand total control to one person. That’s a recipe for having that one idiot blow all of your money, like Adam Neumann did. (Fun fact: Toward the end of WeWork’s heyday, Neumann was burning $3k in cash a minute.)

It’s WeWork and Adam Neumann all over again.

You couldn’t pay me to invest in this shit and it feels a little insane that seemingly intelligent VC’s are doing so.

Here’s a story for those of you who, like me, are generally all doom-and-gloom.

And, instead of using the power we gave them to strengthen election laws in 2021 and 2022, Democrats did little other than getting us further involved in wars we shouldn’t be involved in in the first place.

It is genuinely frustrating being an American.