True.

Yep. And those rules of etiquette are, no means no, no touching without asking, and if someone tells you to knock it off you stop the behavior immediately & permanently.

My concerns aren’t that they are doing it in an unlawful way, my concern is that they are doing it period.

Inserting a layer of bureaucracy into the process doesn’t make it in anyway better or okay.

No but you don’t understand, suddenly now that the media is telling me how bad ICE is, I care about this. When a blue president is in office the media doesn’t talk about it, so I just assume everything is okay again.

Not talking about things = progress!

Apparently you died waiting for the perfect revolution. Sorry you had to find out this way.

We aren’t anywhere near the idea of perfect revolution, people are still caught up with perfect action planning, perfect rallys, perfect protests, perfect meetings! So many people over think the most basic stuff, it comes from a good place, but it usually leads to impotence.

“Golly gee, our org is so terribly white, that means we can never organize around or make a statement regarding black issues. What if we get something wrong and someone calls us out?” and then the group proceeds to do nothing

That’s the type of shit I hear damn near every single time I’m in an irl organizing space. That’s where the “radical left” is in my area. I know you all have dealt with it too.

You gotta use the information and experience you have to the best of your abilities and move forward. Doing something imperfect will get you far more community respect than doing nothing.

Even if all this was true (I don’t agree but besides the point), Israeli bombs still blow up women and lgbt people. Getting blown up and colonized is hardly progress.

Gonna second the soatok hate. This guys just been signals #1 fanboy for the last several years and it really gets on my nerves.

Fair.

So, the law as written quoted in the original post, atleast to me and I’m not a lawyer or anything, doesn’t seem to imply that it would actually be illegal. Police might still charge you (because they’re scumbags), but I’m willing to bet its something that a judge would throw out.

Basically how it works everywhere, the statute here literally says you can walk on the extreme left side. Cops are wrong.

I’m gonna be the odd one out here and say that route is hardly unwalkable, and with some minor changes could even be somewhat safe compared to the walk I make to work everyday. I went down the entire route road by road in street view, you’ll be hugging the shoulder in spots, walking in grass and cutting across the road a few times, but you can manage it.

Just so you know, nothing of value (you) was lost.

While I understand how you feel, you gotta think about how news gets reported.

Republicans aren’t so far off when they talk about the “liberal news media”. The news reports democrats failings significantly less, or frames it using more neutral language than how republicans are reported.

During bidens presidency I literally never heard anything about deportations, yet he did deport a significant amount of people. More than the amount we’ve seen from trump (so far).

No matter the justifications, the tone, or the methods, deportations still happened, and currently more of them happened under both Biden and Obama than with Trump. People most certainly were hurt and/or killed in that process too.

While I don’t personally uphold them, they’re arguably the easiest of all the “AES” countries to make a case for.

Obama and Biden are allowed to have as many deportations as they want. Infinite deportations. Its only bad because Republicans are doing it.

You said no ubuntu so here’s some debian distros ;) MX linux, Sparkylinux, LMDE, Q4OS

No seriously though, all of those have their fans and in my opinion deserve a look. MX linux has one of the better xfce setups out of the box imo, sparky has lots of cool DE packages, LMDE is mint but better-nt, and Q4OS is one of the few distros that includes an out of the box trinity setup.

You won’t get what you’re asking for, because what you want is windows to not suck, not for Linux to have GUI. Me too tbf.

I started playing around with linux back in the Ubuntu 11.04 days. I was a tween with computers as a hobby and linux repeatedly humbled me and left me troubleshooting for hours. I had fun playing with it but I stayed with Windows on my main PC.

When I finally could not take it anymore in 2021, I started using fedora, which I grew to hate then moved to opensuse, which I grew to hate so I moved to Debian, and I’ve more or less stayed struggling in the Debian sphere since.

I’m a regular person, I don’t code. I can’t even hello world in python without help. I just need my laptop to be able to serve me the slop that I crave. If you’re that person too, you’re just gonna have to suck it up and learn how linux works. Suffer through it. You’ve been using windows probably since you were eating boogers, don’t expect to just pickup linux over night. I moved to linux for political reasons, and I suspect you’re doing so for similar reasons. It doesn’t get easier, you just get better at using Linux.

If you want my suggestion, pick something based on an LTS distro. I like Debian, but I’m sure there is good stuff based on RHEL, SUSE, whatever. People will sit here and tell you how “out of date” Debian is. You’re coming from windows, you probably regularly use software that nobody has maintained since 2009, you don’t care if bonzibuddy.exe got an AI update, you just want to turn computer on, watch youtube, play vidya game. Don’t let user johnthunderfuck69 in r/linux tell you his arch install has never broken in 20 years of using it. He is built different and you are not johnthunderfuck69.

I’ve had good luck with some of the gui tools included in MX Linux, SparkyLinux, and LMDE(mint debian edition). If you look hard enough between those 3 you’ll probably find a big red button that you can click to order pizza to your house.

Choose Cinnamon, XFCE, or KDE as a desktop environment.

You can make criticisms of both. Just actually talk from a place of knowing what you are talking about when you do it.

While I’m not a leftcom, Bordiga is probably one of the more solid critics of Stalin. I disagree with Bordiga’s criticism, but I can track and understand where he was coming from because he very clearly actually did the reading.

What I don’t always respond kindly to, is someone going “14 kajillion dead, worse than hitler, authoritarian”.