I don’t understand all the friction Gnome gets. Yes, I’m satisfied with everything default on the Debian/ Fedora Workstation. That’s because the DE get’s the hell out of my way and most everything can be easily managed without touching the mouse.

Those two things alone are so important to me, and such an improvement over Windows, that I’ve just never gotten around to trying other DE seriously.

The reason circumcision is common in the US has more to do with people like RFK jr. than it does with people like Epstein.

Gary Webb killed himself. He was divorced, unemployed, and his professional reputation was ruined. His reporting on the CIA importing cocaine was retracted after it was fact checked, and his editor would not stand behind the reporting.

But his article was published and is still available to read. The idea that the CIA assassinates people 20 years after they “spill the secrets” stretches credulity. Makes since he’d punch his own ticket.

The idea that he was shot twice “in the back of the head” is a myth. He did shoot himself twice, but that’s not so unusual. 42% of gunshot and penetrative wounds to the brain are survivable.

This meme irritates me because it depends on the misinformation that suicides are unusual or suspicious. Suicides are common as dirt. To the tune of like 40K people/ year in the US. It’s a major public health crisis but gets ignored because of taboo and because it’s a gun issue.

Who you gonna shoot? I’m serious. Stalin was a bankrobber. Haitians drove Napoleon’s army into the sea with machetes. The Black Panthers took several pigs off roll-call. What’s your plan, revolutionary?

Kid Rock is music for dudes who can only see their kids on the weekend, but don’t.

Miss Rachel is not a radical activist, that’s Zionist propaganda. Portraying her that way, even as a joke, makes Mossad laugh.

The American war for Independence is a pretty sad example of revolution.

Think of the average American, how much did their material conditions change? Now compare to the French Revolution, Haitian Revolution, and Bolshevik revolution.

America by comparison, was just an “under new management”.

People on a budget can just slow the fuck down. Speeding tickets are not cheap.

I love this. The Luddites were an early labor movement and their reputation is pure capital propaganda.

I’ve been told that Kaczynski’s manifesto is compelling and some of his ideas about the danger in technology makes more sense now than when he was captured. I’m kinda scared to read it.

Gnome get’s up and out of my way. 9/10.

I don’t understand what you mean. How is one “memory holed”? Presumably this means to encourage people to forget, which is why Sandy Hook is a weird example. Not only was that one of the biggest stories of that year, it echoed through the news cycle for years through lawsuits, the Alex Jones thing being the most famous.

It’s ironic to use anything as an example of something people forgot.

2 more weeks and that’s vanilla beans.

You could have just said ignorance is bliss.

This works on libertarians too.

Fiat currency is socially constructed and would cease to exist if we stopped believing in it. It’s just that the value of gold works exactly the same way.

Sci-fi eugenics is still eugenics.

The Nazi term is “useless eater”, but I suppose “drain on society” is a pretty good translation.

Media criticism has become so full of right-wing messaging, that quality-slop doesn’t sound off-base. Kinda like poes law.

These CHOADS take the time to learn media-criticism jargon and aesthetics, but they use those to make single-digit ‘your Dad’ type complaints. The most popular being the existence of black actors.

I’ve seen people vehemently argue scientific accuracy in Star Wars. People are aggregated right now at the “unrealistic” casting of black actors in a Cyclops movie. Next to this insanity, quality-slop sounds pretty reasonable.

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Anybody can cook like Paula Dean. All you need is lots of butter, cheese, and racism.