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  • I would say that’s definitely not the case, this is pretty textbook as far as fascism is concerned to keep the Party distracted with purity tests. It’s also a lot easier at the beginning to obfuscate all of your dastardly plans by saying it’s to marginalize demonized outgroup x so people don’t ask too many questions about why they’re doing obviously unrelated thing y

    Obviously the end result of this is more and more infighting and more and more drastic “No True Scotsman” purity tests as more distraction outgroups are deleted by the government leaving larger groups affected over time but it’s still in the beginning/mid stages in the US and they still have plenty of time for larger amounts of mass persecution :)

    I also want to add that you are very naive if you think at some point the people in charge (or at the very least policy setters) didn’t sit around a table and specifically and intentionally pick trans people as a target because they’re very easy to demonize to their base and they also occupy a relatively small portion relative to the population size of the US

    Like all the people in this post who are like “all the bad things happening in the US and they focus on this”

    Yes they focus on this - that’s the entire point of doing this to begin with



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    22 days ago

    Dude I put in the work over a decade ago and haven’t had to change since…

    I also don’t know what to say to the take that “punishing people for their flaws is why maga is where it is” I think it’s quite the opposite

    Idk about everyone else, but this reads like AI… maybe it was the phase

    “Instead of bemoaning our failure to rise, you’ve got to approach it with understanding and appreciation for the goopy human core and advocate for realistic solutions” lmao






  • The reality is the majority of all healthy food in the US is gated behind high prices, forcing the average/low income consumer into eat foods high in large amounts of globally banned dyes and syrups, which results in massive weight gain unless you buy into the weight loss meds, unless you want to do something crazy like eat beans and rice for every meal.

    this + all the hostile city planning preventing you from walking anywhere means that it’s both very easy to gain weight and very hard to lose it once you have it

    Anyway, this is a harder problem to solve than dumb gotchas like “why don’t americans just exercise more, why don’t americans just calorie watch”








  • I think a lot of people are confusing what the AUR actually IS. It is NOT the official package repository used by Archlinux - it’s more like a bunch of community install scripts for stuff that isn’t officially supported yet - for popularity or other reasons.

    So for all those people complaining and saying “debian does it better” it’s very likely that you would not even HAVE a package to install and would have to come up with a build script on your own - the AUR allows you to skip this and instead just verify that the script itself isn’t malicious, which is usually fairly obvious.

    A lot of people here seem to be under the impression that all of this effort should be abstracted for them - but that’s what you chose when you left windows - a system that you control intimately with a necessitation to actually do some upkeep yourself because a giant company isn’t doing it for you.

    In other words. RTFM and stop expecting other people fix all your problems for you, because that’s exactly how windows got to how it currently is.