Oh I’m sure, I’ve heard the same from some friends up north. Rising fascism is a global trend right now and it’s fucking horrifying. Need to get out to the range and practice more myself too for sure. Getting out of here is all well and good, but being prepared for the worst is more important right now.

Yeah true. It’s generally better from what I’ve seen but nazi chuds really are everywhere.

LOL

Canada is probably gonna be the plan though honestly. Driving distance, easy on the dogs, minimal culture shock. Just gotta talk with the wife and start seriously planning it out. We slacked on getting our passports renewed last year though, big mistake. Playing it by ear right now - staying and fighting back just seems like a poor option right now while the empire is collapsing on itself.

They’re gonna tell us to all vote for Gavin Newsom 💀

Seriously. Like sure it’s a half-decent start I guess, barely, but AOC and Sanders are still centrist liberals. Kicking the can down the road by keeping capitalism alive will get us right back here in the future.

It’s incredibly depressing that this country is in a state where people genuinely believe these two are anywhere left of center

At this point I’m just waiting for a refugee program abroad to open up so we can get the fuck out asap. I have zero hope in this country ever doing anything about this shit, even if the current regime is toppled. Until capitalism is a thing of the past, it’s always going to happen again.

The Christian nationalist fascists love Israel not just because of their warmongering, genocide, and apartheid, but also because they think its existence keeps Jewish people off in their own country away from everyone else.

It sounds contradictory, but the vast majority of support for Israel is literally rooted in antisemitism.

Liberalism is a right-wing ideology, full stop.

Oh absolutely. We’re in a very different age today though. Like hell I can’t imagine either of my own parents understanding the basics.

Every day I wake up praying to read the news that someone did the funniest thing to this nazi fuck. I’ll settle for an arrest though.

This is the core of the argument. You can’t expected the average casual user to use CLI at all if you want mainstream adoption. The vast majority of people can barely operate Windows as-is, telling them to use a Linux CLI would be asinine.

History is written by the victors, and the outcome is looking grim right now.

It’s actually so refreshing seeing upvoted comments here with the correct take, whereas the chuds would be all over this on the other site

Fuck JKR and everything she stands for

Or deportations or attacks on LGBTQ+ rights

Meanwhile Biden deported more people than any sitting president ever before, Harris’s biggest campaign promise was “the biggest and most lethal military in the world”, democrats are throwing LGBTQ+ folks under the bus right now and censuring THEIR OWN PEOPLE when they actually have the gall to do the slightest amount of fighting back. And that’s all on top of the ongoing genocide Biden funded and supplied and Harris was 100% committed to continuing and all establishment dems completely support. Both parties are rotten.

Harris would’ve been nothing but another twist to the right for the overton window, and we would inevitably have this exact same sort of fascist administration right after she left office. It would’ve been nothing but kicking the can down the road.

Accelerationism is fucking awful but frankly this current shitshow was inevitable without a complete overhaul of this system. Democrats are a far right forced opposition and nothing will change until we install a far left worker’s party and give all of these capitalist warhawks the boot.

They live their entire lives pissed off at everything anyway

That explains it, I knew this art style looked extremely familiar but couldn’t place it

I got a retroid pocket ages ago. Thing’s been in a drawer since day 1. Feels incredibly clunky, both hardware and software. It just feels like a cheap toy.

I have an analog pocket now that does everything I wanted the retroid for much better, and even though it’s not quite the same form factor, the steam deck is an emulation beast too.

Absolutely. I’m a bit of a ways outside the city and waiting for the day the raids hit in full force here for anyone who doesn’t align with fascists.

I’ll toss in a vouch for bazzite too. I tried it out and it’s not at all for me, but that’s because I wanted to tinker with shit and bazzite’s a very “locked-down” immutable distro. if you want something that just works out of the box and don’t plan on doing a lot of tweaking, it’ll get the job done. I ended up switching to cachyOS which suits my needs much better, but I don’t think I’d recommend it to someone brand new to linux as a whole.

I’ve been using it for a few months now. Works just fine, doesn’t do anything fancy but it doesn’t need to. Filter rule creation is pretty limited, and the desktop client doesn’t play well with my VPN for some reason, but otherwise it works fine.