It’s not that hard, just read the install guides and instructions. My first Arch install was like 8y ago and I expected it to be difficult - it wasn’t.

Friends don’t let friends use Manjaro

Use EndeavourOS or another Arch derivative instead.

You didn’t do that a couple of years ago when Musk decided to push his own posts and right wing content to the top of everyone’s feed? I dropped twatter that same day.

Mastodon works well, tell your twatter refugee friends.

It’s possible that there’s more than one problem that needs addressing. We’re on the same page w.r.t. the Democratic party being an absolute policy failure for decades.

Ah, I’m wrong then. In CA we have to study and pass this in 8th grade: https://www.ixl.com/standards/california/social-studies/grade-8

That should be a national requirement.

Or maybe actually give them a civics education? I’m behind a free online basic civics class every 2y that gets you a $250 credit on your taxes or something. There has to be a reason to actually take it and pay attention.

Fair enough. IIRC there’s a mandatory civics test to complete 8th grade nationwide which was, ostensibly, intended to prevent electoral problems like this

I honestly think we should have a 20 question multiple choice basic 8th grade civics quiz before people are allowed to vote. We no longer have an electorate that’s informed enough to be capable of voting. Score 60% or higher on that quiz or get the fuck out of the booth.

Edit: I’m incorrect, there’s no national requirement that I can find. In CA we can’t finish 8th grade without studying and passing a civics test covering this material: https://www.ixl.com/standards/california/social-studies/grade-8. So yeah, I amend my opinion - these standards should be followed nationwide.

I read this as preparation for round two of the USA’s China tariff boogaloo

Time to donate to teen shelters in the blue cities because I suspect a whole bunch of kids are going to be needing that help soon.

And yet with all of that being true his response to covid was objectively better than Biden’s for the reasons that were already written down when you decided to reply to this post and not that one

You realize that the entire reason COVID spread so fast and sickened so many is that Trump gutted the CDC (and more specifically gutted the CDC’s pandemic task force) then aggressively pushed misinformation during the opening phase of the pandemic right? The few folks remaining at the CDC were under politically motivated orders to play down the pandemic the entire time Trump was in office so that Trump could try and pretend his economy (which he inherited from Obama) wasn’t shitting the bed while he ran for reelection.

Remember the bit where Trump thought a big pandemic would be good for his voting numbers because it was supposed to hit the blue cities harder than his red state supporters? Remember how we needed freezer trucks as temporary morgues for a year as a result?

Were you not following the court’s impact on public health policy at all? Every sane state passed a mask mandate and other public health measures to combat COVID spread, then the courts (appointed by Republicans no less) crushed those efforts

Remember 8+y of “Thanks Obama” when the dude passed a healthcare act that got tens of millions affordable coverage?

“business man like me, he say it like it is”

Business man: word salad - slur - word salad

I think that was a huge part of Trump’s appeal. It’s hard to be happy about watching the wealthy drain the country for 35y while you’re stuck working at Wal-Mart or a gig job and effectively treading water while waiting for a medical emergency to bankrupt you or for prices on everyday goods to outpace you. It’s a choice between getting fucked over while a certain class of person gets richer or fucking everybody over and that appealed to a whole lot of people.

It doesn’t work, they ran plenty of ads on P2025 and people responded that “Trump won’t really do that, Dems are just trying to scare us.”

Most Americans have never had critical thinking as part of their educational curricula. If you’re very lucky you’ll cover critical thinking skills as part of AP English in highschool, otherwise that’s a second semester course your freshman year of college. Most Americans can’t look at a particular piece of media and unpack what it’s saying and why it’s saying it. Americans are ridiculously easy to manipulate as a result.

Hard to pull that off when the entire core of the DNC is permanently latched onto the corporate teat.

We have a lot of work ahead of us if we want to break the core of the party and force even a smidgen of compromise out of them that costs their corporate donors profits.

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Dems fucked around are in the process of finding out that you can’t run as the pro labor party when you haven’t done much to improve labor’s material conditions in like 35-40y.