Now that’s what I call a bold strategy.

“Let’s see how that plays out for 'em, Cotton!”

All of this can be true. I’m exceedingly pissed at how the vocal anti-fed 2A crowd was talking all tough, and now they’re licking the heels of the feds as those agencies literally carry out all the conspiracies we were supposed to need that 2A for.

If Tyranny == Law:
Rebellion == Duty

???

Something like that?

Ugh. What a bunch of cowards.

Edit: I’m not even advocating violence. Where’s all the peaceful open-carrying protests? That’d at least be a start towards a polite society.

Thugs in unmarked vans with masks would be a lot more hesitant to beat on civilians with 50 legally carried rifles in the vicinity. Jussayin.

I’ve had some truly memorable ones before. I can’t ever figure out how to influence them though.

Lately I’ll dream that I’m stressed at some ex-job again, with surreal situations (like a restaurant cut in two, but the kitchen was far from the seating area, so I had to run a tray like 100 meters across the open desert in the middle of the night from side to side and people were pissed)

I’m sad that when I see my late dad in my dreams he’s usually a bit angry at me over something.

But a lot of the time it’s just a random cacophony of random fleeting things that felt like 3 seconds and suddenly my alarm is going off. :(

I do miss my weird not-nightmare dreams…

A large part of me really wants to believe that skiing video game was SkiFree 95.

… Because I probably had bad dreams about that yeti as a kid LOL

These are the types that will push government to send people to gitmo for littering and jaywalking without mercy or relent…

…then when draconian law inevitably turns on themselves they’ll beg and plead for exceptional leniency and understanding.

I also want to point out how often these violent goons dress exactly like the sterotypical violent goons showcased in “get your CCW!” posters and targets; the ones responsible Americans are supposed to be training to protect themselves from getting jumped by.

Weird, huh?

Otherwise they dress like the school bully whose mom gave them $50 to spend at the airsoft store.

Are we thinking of World at War maybe? The one where you were a sniper stealthily sneaking through the Red Square with a Mosin Nagant?

That game was amazing. Along with Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, I’ve played it through multiple times.

MoH:AA also featured a brief stint as the Soviets, too.

Both also made sure we knew the PPSH “pe-peh-sheh” is one of the coolest SMGs ever made. :D

I remember Call of Duty 3 on the Wii had a section where you played as a Polish tank crew!

Yeah, I know people will say “It’s been happening this whole time maaaan”

But for real, it feels overnight, watching how quickly all of this “That doesn’t happen in this country.” Piles on at once…

I mean heck, 2020 feels like it was a year ago, and things sucked really bad, but it’s crazy how much “flooding the zone” with bullshit really manufactures a sort of resigned compliance.

We need to be pushing back at every turn. Even though it’s exhausting. I myself have been (respectfully) badgering my lawmakers to strike down these Internet ID bills, for instance.

These are the episodes that we’re talking about, where we have had repeated, direct, violent attacks on American civilians in order to veto the ballot box with violence.  And the fascist justifies this violence to himself by saying that they alone are the arbiters of what is right or wrong – not the law, not history, not civilization, not public opinion, and certainly not God.  The authoritarian assumes for himself judge, jury, executioner.

Fixed it. This would go great with bodycam footage of the countless ICE atrocities this year alone–Oh yeah, they conveniently stopped recording those, didn’t they?

Who knows, maybe one of his gigolos will be feeling particularly brave one evening.

Isn’t it interesting how they never give actual examples when they say shit like this?

Yeah, you know! Left wing violence! Like that gang that wears the masks, always going around dogpiling and point-blank-executing U.S citizens at home, in church, on the street… That kinda violence? Pfffft.

Republican policy is exceedingly simple and always boils down to one simple statement: “It’s okay when we do it.”

This pisses me off beyond all reason.

EDITS: Lol I kept remembering more and more empty platitudes every few seconds…

“Rah rah, sheepdog. Rah rah the fedz are comin. Rabble rabble Ruby Ridge and Waco. Rah rah learn mixed unit tactics to take on the glowies. Muh gunz protec muh free speech. Live free or die. Molon Labe. 1776 no step on snek! Remember the rooftop Koreans! It’s our Constitutional right to open carry at protests! The feds are planning death camps for dissenters! An armed society is a polite society! When tyranny becomes law rebellion becomes duty!”

[Armed gangs of LARPing fatasses in Walmart gear and balaclavas start killing Americans in the streets and dragging citizens into unmarked vans to take to blacksites on foreign soil without due process of any kind.]

“WeLL, tHeY’rE LaW eNfOrCeMeNt ThO…tHeY aRrEsT cRiMiNaLs. . .”

[crickets]

“…Wut?”

For the record, they were mostly right about all that stuff, on the surface.

But when it comes time to show that American spirit and “nut up or shut up” …they choose to shut up.

…Or they actively goosestep in line with a pedo-billionaire mass murdering megalomanic nazi who’s robbing them and selling them out by the day. . . because that makes sense.

[Nervous laughter remembering my history class textbooks…and the History Channel specials…and appreciating how games like Medal of Honor and Call of Duty showcased many other countries’ contributions to the effort I was never even aware of]

Heh. Heh? :3 lol

Cool! Yeah, they don’t seem to be referenced as much anymore, but they were seriously impressive and had their use cases. :D

that “long as you like” is still going (jeez 8y at this point lol).

Yeah, Mint is often referred to by folks as a “beginner distro” implying you’ll somehow inevitably skill up and distro hop, and sure, plenty do, but it really doesn’t have to be that way!

(Heck, Eliot the super hacker in Mr. Robot used it as his home distro! Lol 😉)

I mean, it’s stable, you can still get newer stuff and gaming via FlatPak, and it’s just overall friendlier. The community is super helpful and nice too!

I personally jumped to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed because I like having new features sooner. (I blame Blender haha!), and honestly, I didn’t expect to fall in love with KDE as much as I did. I really like KDE. :p

I’d always encourage people to try other distros just to see if they do something that fits them better or something, but yeah, you shouldn’t feel any pressure to “graduate” from Mint. It’s lovely. :D

Reminds me of this tweet/meme I still remember. Something like:

“Oh it’s fine that we just rolled out another $6bil aircraft carrier, but mention that people should get healthcare or education and suddenly Grandpa’s pulling out his fkin abacus.”

XD

I would love so much to go to college, but yeah, at this point in my life it becomes a business question, rather than about personal betterment. Everything is a desperate “Return on Investment” calculation anymore.

Yeah, it definitely pushed me away. I can do art and gamedev without a degree (but haven’t made it yet for a plethora of reasons), but you need a bachelor’s if you want any hope of escaping the country. Drat! Cornered.

I teach myself stuff all the time, but it doesn’t come with a paper that says I put myself deep in debt to do it, so, I’m automatically disqualified for “good” jobs. :(

I’ve been contemplating… trying to start some kind of “PC Computing Club” or something. With the goal being to outreach and educate people toward computer literacy.

It would have to be something that’s “cool” to be a part of, because nobody actually seems to show up to “computer classes” even though they all clamor for them. Especially old people. They think they want to “learn computers” and then just drop out if they show up at all.

There’s gotta be a way around that. 90’s computer users were passionate and would be staging riots at what’s been done to the Internet, privacy laws, and on and on…

This “deliteracy” campaign is entirely intentional. They want to create an idiot cow-sumer class, which only exists to labor and pay subscriptions, without understanding anything.

Hey there! You’re not overstepping at all and in fact your concern is heartwarming, I sincerely appreciate it.

I’ve kinda had this concern before but…I don’t really see it…yet? Honestly, I think it really is just a result of “skill rust” from how computing has changed and normies moved their lives to their iPhones.

I also notice this trend with many people, but boomers especially, where if they aren’t already good at something, they just drop it and find the easiest most convenient solution, rather than risk learning something. =\

She basically stopped using a traditional PC like after the Win7 days pretty much, if that. The thing that really sucks is I try to encourage her to do more challenging things with her brain, like play adventure games and stuff like we used to, but after we lost my dad she basically just takes care of her house and her dog, exercises, and watches (a lot of “reality”, ugh) TV…

I signed her up for a library card too, because audiobooks are fun and brain stimulating, but I don’t think she’s bothered. This is a real sore spot with me. :(

might be a good idea to get her checked out

So…I dunno. How the heck do you even bring this up? Is it something they could just screen for? It really couldn’t hurt, I suppose.

Because I’ve heard all the stories, and that stuff is no joke. It’s absolutely brutal. She’s living in another state right now, so it isn’t easy to just trot on over there. :(

Would love to know how you managed to get your mom to bother with any of it.

I hope everything is going okay with your mom. Lots of love and prayers for her! <3

Favorite is OpenSuse Tumbleweed. It’s stable mostly, and quite fixable when it isn’t. Just a great overall balance.

My first was actually DSL: “Damn Small Linux”, contained entirely on a CD to remove a TERRIBLY resistant malware from my Windows XP machine. (It was awesome for that! Had no idea what I was doing lol.)

Tried Ubuntu, then Ubuntu Studio, but they didn’t like my Wi-Fi devices back in those days, so I didn’t get to do much with them!

Used Mint seriously on my aging laptop and loved it. It’s such an excellent on-ramp and you can hang out with it as long as you like.

Later tried Manjaro for a while but…it started having some controversial project decisions and just didn’t feel like home.

Using EndeavourOS on my gaming laptop and it works great! Considering migrating though: Arch is an excellent teacher, but I’ve had to spend unexpected weekends fixing weird hitches after updates.

Honorable Mention: Puppy Linux! I used to be able to boot it to any laptop from my Android phone, and that was a really neat trick for public computers and stuff.

I feel it. As a distro itself I’m not a huge fan of how it does things, but I really do like their theming, colors, font, aesthetic, logo, all that.

Thankfully easy enough to make any distro look like anything, with a little effort. :)