seitanic

seitanic, 1 year ago

Whenever I try to use GNOME, there never seems to be a setting for the thing I want to do.

I convinced a friend to try Linux once, and she abandoned it because it didn’t have a setting that she needed for her work. Later, when I tried KDE, not only was the setting there, but it was the default.

It really sucks that desktop is the default for so many distros, because most users coming from Mac or Windows don’t even realize they can use a different desktop environment. So, if your only experience with Linux is GNOME, and you think “Linux sucks”, I can hardly blame you.

seitanic, 1 year ago

Fascism has already won if you’re a person of color.

seitanic, 1 year ago

Well, yes and no. The Democrat Party is structured to prevent takeovers like what happened to the GOP (e.g. super-delegates). I think it is moving to the left, but glacially slowly. 20 years ago, somebody like Bernie would have been a joke. Now, he’s a viable contender. Maybe in another 50 or 60 years, they’ll be where European leftist parties are now.

seitanic, 1 year ago

Yes, voting is the baseline. It’s the least you can do.

I’m sure that there are anarchists out there who refuse to vote out of principle, but they still do activist work such as participating in mutual aid groups and so on. They’re wrong, but at least they’re still helping society in some way. I think the vast majority of people who don’t vote are just lazy, though.

seitanic, 1 year ago

Even when the Proletariat does win, they often still install a dictatorship. Because those are the kinds of people who lead revolutions.