A transferee from Reddit. Also the person who does those imgur meme dumps.

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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • OK so I have used several DEs but right now I’m on Plasma 6 because frankly, it’s the best out there. It’s easy to use, customizable, intuitive and looks nice. Is it on the heavier side? Yes, but that’s okay. Also it helps that I have learnt the keyboard shortcuts on this.

    I have used XFCE, Mate and Cinnamon in the past. If KDE somehow vanished off the face of the planet, I would likely switch to XFCE because it’s light, customizable and fully functional.






  • > say they reject civilisation 
    > Ignore the resistance movements and organisations actively fighting Taliban rule
    > Ignore the independent media organisations being crushed by the Taliban for speaking out against the Taliban
    > Ignore the people fleeing Afghanistan every day because of the Taliban.
    > Ignores the geopolitical fuckery that gave rise to the modern state of Afghanistan.
    > Ignores that the Taliban was formed from the Mujahedeen, an organisation funded by the US to fight the Soviets.
    

    Yes, clearly the Afghani people are savages who cannot be redeemed. There’s no external factors for the clusterfuck that is the Taliban. Anyone who says otherwise is a liberal hippy. /s


  • So (not so) fun fact: Keffals, who was targeted by KiwiFarms for being trans (yes that’s all) and got Swatted. She then went to stay with another streamer (EllenFromNowOn) in Northern Ireland. Just for information sake, Northern Ireland is still a bit rocky security wise, Police there still carry guns on the regular. So when she went there, Ellen called up the police and explained the situation to them (they had never heard of Swatting weirdly enough).

    Sure enough, someone found her flat, posted her address (with a message referencing a Unionist Slogan, Ellen was from the Catholic Community), and sure enough, the police came. Instead of raiding her all guns blasing (which they normally would) they saw the warning, knocked on the door, saw nothing was wrong, called off the squaddies, and came in to basically make sure everything was okay.

    Bare in mind, this was in Northern Ireland, a place where the Police still drive Armored cars and have regular riots, and they handled this better than the Police in London, Ontario.










  • You’ve not fought against it very well, have you?

    • You have school “voucher” schemes for religious schools, which do shit like teach kids that Evolution is wrong because of the bible.
    • You added “In God we Trust” do your money and added “Under God” to the pledge of allegiance in the 1950s (The pledge, with or without it, is in itself a form of state worship).
    • You have had presidents (Reagan, Bush II) openly promote the idea that America is a Christian state through historical falsehoods.
    • One of the most powerful factions in your government are American Evangelicals who have used their power to promote religious based laws, especially against women and minorities.
    • Every President in recent times has had to show themselves to be openly Christian, with “not being christian (enough)” being a common attack strategy.

    And that’s just Christianity, if I was going to go into how you worship the state…

    • You have Four Faces of Presidents carved on a literal sacred mountain.
    • You make your kids pledge allegiance to the state every morning (I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands).
    • You have two (2) congress funded art pieces that depict George Washington as a God (Washington Enthroned and The Apotheosis of Washington), the latter of which is in the oculus of the Rotunda at Congress for everyone to see.
    • The Lincoln Memorial is straight up designed like a Greco-Roman Temple.
    • You have, as a social norm, displaying your flag outside your house.

    How is that not going to be interpreted as “religious”?

    Now, I know someone is going to be all “lol aren’t you from the uk where you worship the royal family” well guess fucking what:

    1. Barely anyone in the UK worships the royals, especially where I’m from (Scotland) and the people who do even in England are considered weird. Our relationship with the Royals as a country is usually one of aggressive irreverence. My family’s nicknames for the king includes “The Jug Eared Dwarf”, “Chuckie III” and “Tearlach an Chluas”.
    2. Despite having two (2) established churches (Church of England and Church of Scotland), non religious people make up the majority and the UK is aggressively secular.
    3. Despite the established religion and having the (in practice) head of state also be the (in practice) head of the Church, none of our politicians try and use religion to justify their bullshit and those who do are considered wankers.

    America, in the eyes of most of the world, is aggressively religious, not just in terms of christianity but also in worship of the state.


  • Teachers can make this backfire by teaching kids about how Jesus said, among other things:

    • Rich people don’t go to heaven
    • Jesus’s answer to religious people not wanting to see things was for the people complaining to pluck out their eyes.
    • How Jesus told his followers to sell their shit and give it to the poor.

    All things republicans hate because it goes against their ideals. Also they can talk about how in Acts it says Christians lived communally or just read James 5:1-6 verbatim.

    But I guarantee the schools will force their teachers only to read parts of the bible that the state demand, because it’s not about Christianity, it’s about using religion to control people.




  • That’s basically the idea behind these laws.

    Conservatives want to make porn illegal, which isn’t easy under traditional means, so they’re taking the “Putin” approach as I put it, make viewing porn hard, unattractive or even dangerous and make delivering porn to people hard, unattractive and dangerous.

    Requiring an ID from the government to view porn means the government can tell who is watching what. If one of those people happens to run for office or get a little too campaigny, their porn history can be named and shamed.

    And porn providers know this, and know that will drive people away from their sites, and on top of this implementing this will likely be bureaucratic and likely expensive, so they’ll stop serving an area.

    And when this is applied to non porn sites that have porn like Reddit or twitter or Tumblr, well guess what’s going to happen, those sites will ban porn from their site.

    It’s basically banning porn by making it impossible to get porn in a way that doesn’t end up with you getting blackmailed. Children have nothing to do with it.