that’s totally false. people feel all kinds of ways about things done hundreds, even thousands of years ago.

lots of people will tell you about their “line” being “traced” back to such n such. most prominently all royalty everywhere but lots of normal people have stories.

sounds like it should be ok

have been using for years: https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android

have been using for years: https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android

the reason you can’t provide a counter argument is that his position is completely incoherent. Not saying that just cause I disagree either. You posted 1 sentence that has 4 or 5 different thoughts that are irrelevant or contradictory to each other. Maybe the reason he likes kamala is they are on the same wave length in terms of cognitive context?

But seriously I don’t know if logic is the name of the game here. If you are going to try to reciprocate the gift of communism and pull him out of the pit, I wonder if checking for emotional salience might help. I would ask who or what has changed his mind? There could be a relationship: with a person, group, identity, even a parasocial relationship or other indirect influence, that has contributed to this. Or has his relationship to his context changed? Has he discovered a new/latent class allegiance? One of the various trains of thought mentioned is “this time its not like doing this abstract process”. What the heck has changed to make it concrete/direct now? Nothing has changed in the system to make it more tangible. If something’s different, it’s him.

I’m also curious about the variation between the post title and the body. The latter is his weak ass attempt to justify his own behavior which is one thing. But why does he want you to do the same so badly? Surely he knows “might as well” isn’t a compelling argument for anything. I won’t leave my house for “might as well”. Might be downplaying his own commitment to avoid cringe. Or maybe he really cares what you think and wants you to endorse his behavior. Or he has adopted a new theory of change that involves each person getting one other person to vote. In any case, if you can draw that out, it would be clarifying for you both.

I personally don’t see the fascism inherent in this small amount of information that others are pointing to. I have heard some almost-compelling arguments made on the issue of abortion alone. I can imagine if I was a different person, with different experiences, and less stubborn, I could be swayed if it came from the right source. We are all influenced by those around us. Some people are really easily influenced.

To inquire in the opposite direction, I might ask him what would convince him to change his mind. Perhaps leading in the direction of a viable political organization to join and act with. Evidence of class power. Instead of focusing on his current trajectory, imagine a different one. A few minutes of world building to get out of your heads… Imagine a left that wasn’t in utter disarray, would you still be making the same argument? If not, why? Because there would be hope! What would it look like? Now is that what the democratic party looks like? Is that what it feels like?

At the end of the day, there are some lessons that can only really be understood and internalized through struggle. You can learn in 30 minutes of experience things you can’t learn in 30 years of reading and discussion. Has he done anything communist or was it more of a talking thing? If not, he should.

his crimes are numerous, I’m sure it would take many books to detail them

for a slightly different scent you could try Cedar; I never knew one personally but it was chosen name of Cedar Paul who was a communist trans lator (not a trans girl).

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Fuck at first glance (reading from the middle out) I thought it would be a hit list for Jan 6 2025 posted by a lingering qanon account.

Nope, posted by Kamala.

What a loser mentality.

TP Link, idk, archer 600

Ah I see: tp link ac600? Yup all the instructions seem to involve git. I’d say fuck that, spend $10-20 for a known compatible device. (Unless money is worth more than time, in which case try another distro and see if you have better luck…)

here is a list: https://github.com/morrownr/USB-WiFi/blob/main/home/The_Short_List.md

Or just search on amazon for linux + read the reviews to see what others have said.

Well Fred Hampton wasn’t a Chinese peasant but he didn’t let that stop him. ;)

and considering some of the fucking people that have power in it, I would seriously fucking love to have Hasan take their place lmao.

But that’s a totally different thing than emulating the BPP. While the Panthers did attempt electoralism they didn’t meet much success and it’s not what they are really known for. Their legacy is of grassroots organizing, mass education and the theoretical/political contributions derived from these. It’s a completely opposite approach to just incompetently filling a seat like you describe.

Anybody can get elected if they have enough cash, but I don’t know if Hasan is on that level. People who buy themselves political positions don’t just have a lot of money themselves, but they are embedded in networks of friends, family and fellow travelers who are also wealthy/influential who will support them. He’s rich, but is wealthy?

I think what you are kind of getting at is something akin to Upton Sinclaire’s campaign for governor of California in 1934. He was a well known leftist author who’s writing was syndicated in newspapers and broadly popular. His book The Jungle led to the creation of the FDA which was a significant step forward at the time in terms of food safety. (Although it had less of an impact in terms of worker safety and veganism which were arguably points the book made more strongly.) Although he lost the election, it is still looked at by some as a positive contribution, e.g. a Socialist Candidate Who Succeeded Through Failure.

I don’t totally hate the idea of leftists throwing themselves at the political system like spaghetti at the wall, but I can’t fault any specific person for not doing it. I’ve known people who have run for office in small political parties or as independents. Even a campaign that you know is going to lose last place and you are mainly doing as a kind of placeholder or to make a point is a huge undertaking. I’ve never known anyone personally who has won a campaign like that but it does happen now and again. Usually as a protest when people are mad at the main parties. Never really comes to much. Occasionally it’s a big splash like that fetterman guy. What good he ever do?

Something has gone awry if you are using git pulls to get basic wifi. I rarely rarely ever need to do that kind of thing, usually only if I’m fucking around, never for something as essential as networking. I’m curious how you ended up going down that path. Is it a very weird NIC? what distro are you going with?

I would suggest trying a different distro. Just boot it up from the USB and see if you can find one that works with your wireless and other essentials by default without any wrangling. Some computers are just more compatible with certain distros. The wizards will tell you it’s not true because the linux kernel is the same… but it’s the path of least resistance.

Whichever of the following you haven’t tried, go for the next in the list: Mint, Fedora, Ubuntu.

You can use a utility called Ventoy to create a bootable USB with a selection of OSes/distros so you don’t have to reflash all the time or have a zillion USB sticks. I have a couple dozen linuxes + Windows on my ventoy USB. It also lets you have a persistent file storage partition on the same USB which is VERY handy to keep documentation, notes about what you did, etc.

In terms of remembering, that the way you learn command line stuff is by repetition. The stuff you use, you will eventually recall. Stuff you don’t use, you don’t need to recall. You just look it up when you need it. Like you don’t really need to remember the commands to fix your wifi because ideally you’ll only do it once. (It’s worthwhile to keep a note of what works in a safe place though in case of reinstallation.) And you will probably just be following a guide from online anyway. It’s good to be able to read the commands so you can tell if they are OK to run but you don’t need to make them up from scratch.

There is a utility called tldr it is on my top 5 things I always, always install right away on a new system. I would never have become comfortable on the command line without it. It is a very abbreviated in-terminal help system that gives a small number (5-10) of clear, useful examples for a given command. Use use it like this: tldr ls which gives you an idea of how to use the ls command. This would be the output. You can always go to man ls for comprehensive information, but you won’t need to very often. Unless you end up liking the command line as I was eventually forced to.

The other way to remember stuff is also not to remember it but to make use of the shell history. That’s a bit more complicated to explain and how it works by default varies by distro. On most systems you should be able to scroll with the up arrow or possibly page up at the empty prompt. You can also usually start typing and hit [tab] for auto complete. Some obtuse systems have these disabled by default. But there are very sophisticated systems/utilities for managing and navigating the shell history. By which I mean to explain that this is actually how people who live in the command line manage to “remember” things. They don’t remember them… they just have a good way to access all previous commands which serve as mnemonics.

All this to say don’t get down, it’s a learning curve but it’s doable. I’m not particularly well suited to this kind of thing. Learning it was a real struggle at times but even I manage. You feel like you aren’t getting anywhere but you know more now than you did 24 hours ago.

To my understanding it’s only in the last 10-15 years that Hirshfeld, Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, WhK etc are being recovered even in Germany.

It is so egregious. At the site of the Opernplatz book burning, which is the nazi book burning etched into our collective memories by the nazi-produced filmreels (they were bragging!), there is now a commemoration: Empty Library created in the 90s:

With a plaque reading

“Das war ein Vorspiel nur, dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen.”

(“This was but a prelude; where they burn books, they ultimately burn people”).

Nothing here to suggest that the specific target was chosen due to contributions to the liberation of LGBTQ++ people, that it was primarily motivated by hatred of gay, trans, and gender non-conforming people. Literally just participating in the erasure set in motion that day.

(Also I really have to say that the tragedy of this event isn’t that they burned books as in published works which exist elsewhere. but that they burned thousands of documents which were totally unique. The Institute contained the world’s largest collection of LGBTQ++ culture and in-depth first person accounts of LGBTQ++ life around the world from all walks of life. It’s just my little hobby horse but I think it oughtta be considered a destruction of primary documents, not a book burning. We lost not a library, but an archive.)

Sorry for being so vigorous in my agreement… I concur the split is worth looking at and understanding because it became a sort of template for a pattern that would keep happening over and over again in LGBTQ++ communities, each generation having to go through it anew. The ones who embrace gender variation vs the ones who eventually become fascists. (Also they had another split on the subject of criminalizing sex workers which sadly Hirschfeld was on the wrong side of due to his class affiliations, but he lost and the org as a whole made the right decision. But then unfortunately the nazis took power so everyone lost.)

I don’t have any opinion about this dude and my only involvement with him is meta conversations like this one. I find the whole streamer thing kind of odd but understandable. That said I disagree with the critiques as stated.

If you don’t think Fred Hampton had millions of dollars to help him along than why aren’t YOU the new Fred Hampton? Why be any more disappointed that this guy isn’t Fred Hampton than that I am not Fred Hampton? (I’m not.) Its a criticism than applies to 99.999999999% of people so I am not sure what is the meaning?

If you think that he himself should try to become Fred Hampton, I don’t know that I could agree with you. On what basis would a person in a position like this be organizing and what kind of organization could they possibly create? I can only imagine the hijinx of a political party who’s basis of unity was a twitch streamer. Whatever wacky shenanigans would arise, the BPP it won’t be. I just don’t see it going anywhere. Whatever skills/charisma are involved in becoming this kind of famous, is there any reason to think it would translate to being an organizer? If I heard someone like this had such a plan I would think they had a mega inflated ego.

disappointing that nobody is really willing to give up their comforts of everyday life to actually do something.

If it is about nobody/everybody, I think the importance of this guy is being over stated. He’s not representative of everyone, just himself. It isn’t fair on him or to all the rest of humanity to conflate the two.

If you use one of the commonly-advised main linux distros I really don’t think it is worse than windows overall, it’s just different problems. You are accustomed to all kinds of work arounds in windows but linux will require different work arounds.

If you deleted your boot sector without realizing it, than you must have been using a disk formatting tool as super user. Certainly windows lets you completely format a disk if you want to?

When you say it “looks like a nightmare” do you mean it’s ugly or is that an overall assessment?

An old tradition. See for example Adolf Brand (1874–1945)

To this new group, male-male love, in particular that of an older man for a youth, was viewed as a simple aspect of virile manliness available to all men; they rejected the medical theories of doctors such as Magnus Hirschfeld who found that a gay man was a certain type of person, the intermediate sex.[5] The GdE was a sort of scouting movement that echoed the warrior creed of Sparta and the ideals of pederasty in Ancient Greece, and the ideas on pedagogic eros of Gustav Wyneken.[5] The GdE was heavily involved with camping and trekking. They occasionally practised nudism – the latter then common as part of the Nacktkultur (‘culture of nudity’) sweeping Germany. In the 1920s this would develop into the Freikörperkultur under Adolf Koch.

The Gemeinschaft opposed Hirschfeld and the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee’s stance that homosexuality existed on a continuum with femininity. Brand and the Gemeinschaft instead believed that homosexuality was the epitome of manliness and brotherly love, to be expressed by any man. The group tended towards elitism who based their ideas of attractiveness around Germanic racial purity. Their views towards women were often misogynistic.

i heard on a podcast that police abolition is definitely tankie

which made me too wonder what the tanks were for

I think it would be completely ignored by all media. Either no coverage at all, or if it couldn’t be immediately contained the news cycle would move on after 12 hours and would be quickly “forgotten”. Meanwhile she would be disciplined quietly to act as though it had never happened or otherwise neutralized.

Regardless how stupid the above is, would she be able to do anything against the deep state?

kazoo

I recall recently I think amber mentioned people being upset by pig poop balls and I don’t know if there is any other context where that exists.