Aw yeah

What you’re doing isn’t working either, but at least I haven’t failed and given up my principles!

I’ve been using Linux for almost 20 years, but I still remember the fear of the terminal. The truth is that there is not much that you need to learn for daily use. Unless I’m working on an actual project (like configuring servers/networking) I don’t spend much time in a CLI. Start with a beginner friendly distro (Linux Mint Debian Edition is my pick). You shouldn’t need terminal at all for basic usage. Next, find some tutorials on basic Linux terminal usage and practice. The goal isn’t to “learn every command” but to just familiarize yourself with how it works. Learn how to navigate your files and folders (ls, cp, mv, touch, etc). Learn how to edit text files (use nano). After that, anything you need to learn will be because you want to do something beyond basic use.

This is my changed approach. I used to do what you’re suggesting and it didn’t get anywhere either. It just left me frustrated and worn down. Nowadays I put my actual effort into organizing on the ground in my area. Anything I do online is for my own satisfaction.

What is it with you liberals not understanding that the moral superiority isn’t fake?

Failing the same way over and over again isn’t a strategy either.

Why would any of those people ever help with my leftist agenda? I’m not going to work with fascists or other genocide-enjoyers just to have someone to work with. I’m just hoping that well meaning libs will eventually get tired of having the rug pulled out from under them by the people they elect.

Stop thinking liberals are on your side. They will never stand up to fascism.

That’s a bummer. My next phone will likely be a used Pixel with GrapheneOS. After that, I’m hoping there will be a usable Linux phone with Android app support.

I’m happy with my OnePlus

This user is spamming this garbage everywhere. Look at their post history.

I remapped the power button of my computer to whatever that series of keypresses is that exits vim.

You forgot to turn your brain back on.

Hey look, you’re the Democrat in my version of the meme!

Glad you can turn your brain off so quickly. I bet it helps you sleep. I mean it as: who is an actual greater opponent in reality to “leftists who care about human rights”: online “tankies” or Democrats who literally threw an election to Trump, in part over their refusal to stop actively supporting a genocide? Reassess who your real enemies are, and prioritize your battles based on what is actually happening in the world.

I feel like this meme makes more sense if instead of “Tankies”, the character is labeled “Democrats”.

I think it is truthful, and it’s important to be honest about it-- not least if you genuinely want a way out of Trumpism. Pretending that the Democrats aren’t a big part of the story of how we got here is dangerous. We need to come to terms with our fundamental issues before we’re able to start moving in the right direction.

All this bullshit about this or that is officially dead or over in America… Democracy, the American Dream, leader of the free world etc. None of that shit was ever true. Yes, Trump is a particularly unvarnished avatar or the US, but stop pretending we were ever what the propaganda told us we were.

More humane than decades on death row tbh.

Houthis are the only international actor acting in open military opposition to the genocide in Gaza. They are doing their best to enforce a shipping blockade pending a cessation of Israeli war crimes. The US obviously wants the genocide to continue, as well as all shipping trade through the area.