Is there anything in the US that gets better?

Immigrants are just the first wave of scapegoats.

I refer you to Martin Niemöller’s famous confession:

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

ICE is the modern American SS. They just need an excuse to arrest people arbitrarily - until they don’t need an excuse no more.

poettering is an absolute good guy here

Agreed. But he’s also an abrasive know-it-all. A modicum of social skills and respect goes a long way towards making others accept your pet projects.

pulesaudio protocol is used within pipewire and it works just fine.

I wasn’t talking about the protocol, I was talking about the implementation: PulseAudio is a crashy, unstable POS. I can’t count the number of hours this turd made me waste, until PipeWire came along.

I wish we still had some living memory to whoop these fascists in line.

I’m not old enough to have lived through WW2, but my parents and my grandparents did. And quite a few members of my family went to the camps. Some didn’t come back.

They told us kids what happened. They lived it, and they passed their memories onto us.

And so as a result, fascism is very much a living memory to me. It’s the memory of seeing those dear to us weep when they told us kids what they saw and what they had to endure.

Sadly, those of us for whom fascism is a living memory - directly or indirectly - are too old to whoop anybody’s ass. But I have a burning desire to. I can’t stand fucking fascists, and they’re running the country right now! I’m so fucking mad!

Poor little Grok is just trying to make Daddy proud…

I totally agree. I used to hate systemd for breaking the traditional Unix philosophy, but the reality is that a tight init and service-tracking integration tool really was required. I work with and appreciate systemd every day now. It certainly didn’t make things simplier and easier to debug, but it goes a long way towards making a Linux system predictable and consistent.

Poettering can go fuck himself though - and for PulseAudio too. I suspect half of the hate systemd attracted over the years was really because of this idiot.

Of all things that could lead to his downfall.

Too late for that.

And then what if he was impeached (and that’s clearly not gonna happen, but for the sake of argument…)? The next Nazi in line is JD Vance, and he’s much more dangerous than the senile orange buffoon.

And then let’s say President Vance dies in a freak sofa-humping accident: the next Nazi in line is Mike “I sucked Trump’s dick for this job” Johnson.

The American Reich is here to stay. And ICE will make sure people vote the right way at the next election.

It’s quite staggering how the Nazi playbook is being followed almost to a tee in the United States.

The previous stage was the incredible expansion of ICE, an unaccountable masked police force the law can’t touch, making it to Trump what the SS was to Hitler: a private army.

This is the concentration camp building phase.

Anyone who’s had history lessons in school should see what’s been happening since the orange utan came back to fling feces in the White House. It truly is the Hitler timeline, 1-to-1. Yet nobody peeps a word.

Plus ca change…

Well, I guess nuclear winter is a way to stop all wars ultimately…

But then it’s probably just more Trump BS: as Steven Kroft eloquently said yesterday, just because Donald Trump said something doesn’t mean it’s true.

Trump is quite amazing: everything - and I mean EVERYTHING - he does is clearly geared towards cruelty and hurting other human beings on purpose.

I mean other dictatorships are usually nasty towards certain groups of people, and most have at least a couple of redeeming qualities. But it really seems Trump has a grudge against other humans in general, and literally none of what he does is good in any way, shape or form.

He’s a head of state. That automatically qualifies him to nominate people.

Of course, the Nobel committee is also perfectly free to say “This nomination of a fucking fascist by a fucking genocidal maniac…Should we do a Kissinger again or shall we just close the file and go have a beer instead?”

A friend of mine is a Nobel Prize nominee. It’s not hard: all it takes is someone with vaguely convincing creds to write a letter to nominate you.

In his case, he asked a University teacher friend of his to write the letter. And just like that, he was nominated. He’d been putting “Nobel Prize nominee” on his resume to impress potential employers for decades.

Most people who say “Not my president” are Americans who feel ashamed. Nobody else in the world feels the need to say that because they have no reason to be ashamed.

Not my president

Sorry but he is totally your president. You can’t be in favor of the democratic process of elections and then distance yourself from the outcome.

You as a nation voted for Trump. He’s your president. You own the consequences along with all Americans.

I don’t keep up with everything he does

You should, if only to know when the ICE Gestapo might come knocking at your door or when it’s time to flee because it’s too dangerous to stay in the US.

Hmm, tell you what: maybe the migrants could live in shacks near the farm, so they wouldn’t have the difficulties of finding a place to stay without papers. And the farmer could provide basic foodstuff for them. The migrants would save on commuting and groceries.

And then to solve their undocumentated status, maybe the farmers could own the migrants: if they’re somebody’s, then they have a legal status, right?

And then we could rename the farms plantations.

Even the Waffen SS felt uncomfortable murdering innocent civilians, both in Germany and abroad. But guess what: they still did it.

That’s the power of military training. What makes you think US military will behave any different when the time comes?

Soldiers are indoctrinated into obeying orders despite their best judgment. That’s how human beings convince other human beings to voluntarily lay down their lives in someone else’s interests and against their own.

They are also told in no uncertain terms that they’ll face prison or execution if they refuse to obey.

So while they are cutely told they have a duty to disobey illegal orders, practically they are heavily biased towards doing the exact opposite.

Yes, it was a comment on what goes on in another country, for comparison.

Since when does fact-checking Trump change anything at all?

The unhinged sonofabitch literally told 30,573 lies during his first term, all documented, fact-checked and debunked, yet he’s been reelected and he’s busy turning America into the Fourth Reich completely unchecked.

You’re not gonna flip MAGA around by fact-checking Trump: nothing anybody says or writes touches a cult leader whose followers are either to entranced or too dumb to see past the lies.

Well, America has been running another experiment for decades that has left a lot of people unable to spell - or do math, or science or think rationally and critically: the destruction of the education system.