Ok, dad.

Hehe. The world is what you make of it, fellow human.

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Love Debian as server. It’s decent on desktop, but its documentation isn’t exactly geared towards that, and aside from that, I wouldn’t recommend it to a newbie.

but there are a lot of good Debian based distros out there, for desktop and other - and for good reason.

Love Debian as server. It’s decent on desktop, but its documentation isn’t exactly geared towards that, and aside from that, I wouldn’t recommend it to a newbie.

but there are a lot of good Debian based distros out there, for desktop and other - and for good reason.

PikaOS!

They did argue that beauty lies in the eye of the beholder - so successfully, that you wrote paragraphs to attempt to fight their causal words, and ended up bringing that statement up yourself.

Yeah. We have other shit to deal with right now.

When someone points out something I normally care very strongly about, but also absolutely can’t do anything, my reaction is brief euphoria, including giggling sometimes.

This makes it so that I sometimes giggle at inappropriate times.

Basically, just hearing about the situation charges me up to do something about it, but that tension is released before I can do anything, because it’s literally impossible to do something. This is the same psychological mechanism that powers most jokes, it just isn’t triggered as often by real events, because real events aren’t engineered to “hit right.”

I just came back to this thread. All I see is a blasted wasteland of shame. I can infer some of what happened, but holy cow.

Reasonable point.

It should have had /s, apologies. I’m indirecly saying you have a very reasonable viewpoint.

I get your perspective. I just don’t agree. The response has depended on good documentation, and clear innocence. Even Good didn’t inspire this kind of response. Pretti is someone who clearly had the capacity to do harm, being armed, and yet didn’t even draw. He couldn’t even vaguely be conceive of as “armed”, unlike Good (regardless of how much of a stretch that was). And Pretti was filmed from multiple angles by people who were, by the way, organized and galvanized due to events involving Floyd, Garcia, and Martinez.

Aside from that - I knew where this was going when dubya hit office. But I understand people trying their best to make things work, and knew it would take a lot to get the ball rolling, particularly with the naive bent on the “left”. …and I understand that people of any color will believe whatever fits their world view. If they’re wrong (and we all are, to some degree), some are lucky enough to have a willingness to grow, or to have that world view break. The rest live in their assumptions and pay the psychological and physical price for their views until they’re dust.

Good luck out there.

Calling people you imagine to be enemies fragile doesn’t make them fragile, and may not even make them your enemies. Case in point.

Glad it found a home.

You’re seeing the effectiveness of community organisation efforts to impact larger groups of people. That community was largely established in response to events like Floyd, González and Garcia.

The event with Pretti was filmed from multiple angles by community members. The evidence is unequivocal.

• he was carrying, and didn’t attempt to draw, which establishes ultimately peaceful intent
• the gun was completely removed from him before shooting began
• he was shot while under control of four other men

There was zero justification, and it’s documented. That is why there’s such a major uptick in response. …and that documentation was in direct response to the prior wrongdoing which was not in response to white people being threatened.

This is a lot of people, from different backgrounds, looking out for each other. What more do you want?

They’re probaby a propagandist, just like OP - and if they aren’t, they’re just free labor for ICE, since they’re acting like it. Slavery, and the wounds caused by that, have many layers. Don’t let 'em get you down, just live your principles.

I’ve seen a lot of respect for the Black Panthers showing up to open carry from 2A folks.

I’ve been saying this for fucking ages. Thanks for posting it, it’s nice to see.

You’re not on “the right side of history” if you’re just driving people to the fascist right with your rhetoric.