if white men couldn’t vote, we’d see a lot of advances I’d like – but I don’t want anyone disenfranchised.

hang on, hang on, let’s not let perfect be the enemy of good here.

The same thing happened to me on Pop OS.

Buuuut I’ve been on Debian for the past year with absolutely no issues. I think that, for 99% of computer users, the whole “rolling release” design for an OS is more trouble than its worth. Give me a stable release that I can get used to for a couple years, then one big update at a time - little updates every day that unexpectedly change and sometimes break things just make the experience of doing things more finnicky and unpredictable.

That was also the final straw that made me leave Windows, for the record.

According to this document from 2021, most of them are “assistants” and “aides” of various types, although it seems there are a few thousand registered nurses and other licensed healthcare providers and technicians. Maybe they get licensed on a visa and then overstay the visa?

where did the free Palestine protestors go

Well a bunch of them got expelled, deported, blacklisted, arrested, and more. Many of their organizations were forcibly disbanded, and the campuses where they were active have been thoroughly militarized.

the CCP is evil, Ukraine

Do, uh, do you know which country it was that invaded Ukraine?

He starts a lot of shit, but dammit if he isn’t right most of the time.

when it’s the state/government/leadership that is using acts of violence

So when a corporation uses or sponsors acts of violence it’s not authoritarianism? I guess Coca-Cola-funded fascist death squads are just smol bean libertarians fighting the oppressive tankie socialists!

You can’t even get your talking points in order. The main people on lemmy.ml are anti-capitalist, they would accuse those who would censor them of being anti-communist.

True but only for terminally online liberals. I still haven’t heard anyone in real life ever use that word.

Hell, even in The Matrix they were going to have Switch be an explicitly trans character but got blocked by a producer.

I really want to try a bunch of slurs out

This is surely the most rational reaction to being slightly inconvenienced by a word filter.

your misuse of the word literally in this post figuratively gave me an aneurysm.

Americans have the most individualist “fuck you I got mine” ladder-pulling-upist culture in the entire world. Maybe someday we’ll have a cultural revolution and come out the other side less anti-social, but in the meantime if you want anything done in this country you’ve got to convince people that there’s something in it for them.

politics is a battle of voting for the less shitty option so you can take baby steps toward something better.

Every single time Dems have won since Carter, we have been baby stepping towards something worse. The victories for gay rights under Obama were a brief outlier in our country’s otherwise uninterrupted march towards fascism.

If people want to get excited, they should go to a theme park.

Welcome to America!

If they have a shred of civil responsibility

lmao