this is a pretty typical actual centrist tendency. Most of the centrists I know have been voting blue (and loathing it). A decent number have, though, given up on that in favor of shtf.

The problem has been “vote mostly blue and hope they don’t alienate anyone too badly, because the right will take advantage of the alienated… oh, shit, they did it again.”

like, if some ethnic or other group of people thought they were better than others, and wanted to rig government policy to adversely affect other ethnic or other groups, and tell them what they can and can’t do with their own bodies?

but… maybe I’m being unrealistic, and that would never happen.

…or maybe… …just maybe… you’re caught in a viscous loop of which you are a primary contributing party - where you are hurt by the world, so you lash out at people who aren’t a part of the problem, and see enemies everywhere - thereby relegating yourself to an unmanageable situation that is only partially (but still significantly) of your own making.

maybe… …just maybe… you have to take responsibility for your own situation, even though it’s not your fault, but just you being caught up in the larger evolutionary sweep of life.

Are other people also a part of the problem? sure. But you can’t address it if you’re off-balance.

meh

I support equal rights all around. That means people can do whatever the fuck they want tp do with their own bodies and their own lives, and it doesn’t matter one whit to me what a person’s gender, sex, religion, or whatnot is. Trans people and women should have the same rights as any other fucking human. Not more, and not less.

The person’s actions and attitude towards the world are their biggest impact, and the metric by which I judge which associations to keep in my life. … not their gender or any other category. Demanding extra rights because you’re male, female, white, black, cis, trans, gay, straight, etc will fall on deaf ears for me. Asking to be heard because you’re hurt won’t.

But if you use your pain as an excuse to assume the worst about others, while trying to come off as being a good person, I’ll continue to say this:

Grow. Or repeat. It’s the law.

Huh. Yeah. I just probably did what was necessary and didn’t think about it too much, but that’s just because I’ve been using Linux for ages.

looks like the easiest way is if you have them on two separate drives. I don’t, they share an efi partition… … but, Windows has also overwritten things on there before, and I had to rescue the Linux side. Not most peoples’ cup of tea.

boycotting can be effective. But protesting, when not an issue of actually taking action, is largely ineffectual when appealing to a public that already knows and doesn’t generally know what to do, and a government that simply doesn’t care, and has it’s own myriad issues without caring about what the protestors are saying.

The civil rights movement was largely appealing to a moral, uninformed public - not a public that had been inundated with every micro-issue that anyone can come up with, and manipulated to be completely blind to what’s in front of their faces, while both parties lie or get away with grevious wrongs.

You really didn’t bother to find out how much we agree on. If this were war, you would be shooting allies and neutral parties. Aside from that, you put a hell of a lot arguments in my mouth that didn’t come from me, and i’m not really going to bother with them. It’s classical zealotry and bigotry, and you are incapable of seeing it, because you are being it.

It doesn’t matter that you’re technically right about some of what you say. I can come to those conclusions on my own, and act on them, without virtue signaling to you. But the world you would create, if people bought into your way of thinking, is an absolute wreck, because what you have inside is an absolute wreck.

And you want tp play at not knowing what growth is? It doesn’t matter what centrist views are - your growth is your own. You either reach for it, and grow, or pretend you can’t.

gtfo, yourself.

I didn’t remember doing that, but I’ve been using Linux for ages and might have shrugged that off and forgotten.

dunno

this is beautifully awful.

the “obvious and important differences” are obvious and important to you because you drink the left’s koolaid while the right drinks your milkshake.

the reality is that the Democratic party exhausts it’s voters’ emotional reserves, and consequently is ineffectual at winning hearts and minds, Then they blame the public for apathy.

That is a strategy that is basically guaranteed to put fascism in power. Who knew?

The centrists knew. And when we tried to engage you in conversation about it, you ridiculed and attempted to maneuver with rhetoric, instead of truly engaging.

the funny thing about this is - or sad, maybe, I’m not sure which - is that centrists often have the emotional wherewithal to handle extreme situations. We’ve been dealing with extremes all of our lives. We see how they feed into each other because we actually grapple with the things others would rather blame other people for. We see that what the left is doing is ineffectual. We see that what the right is doing is vile. We act on it - actually take action, not protest - in the ways we can, in our own lives.

So… …if the right wins, and it really goes poorly, it’ll be a fucking shit time for all of us. But it’ll be beyond that - it’ll be hell for you who have ridiculed others instead of growing, because not only will you have to face the physical reality, you’ll have to face the psychological and emotional realities you always refused to, in the middle of everything else going to shit.

Grow, or suffer. Grow, or repeat. That is the law you are bound by, and yet you don’t make a rational choice.

absofuckinglutely.

We voted, alright. it’s called a vote of no confidence.

the left general public: let’s alienate the people that might agree with us, but be shocked when the right wins.

Subtle.

pop os. most apps you can right-click to run on discrete graphics card, and they tried to make it gamer friendly.

worth a shot, anyhow.

Who the fuck does this?

I’m so proud of you.

issue is, so many things have been called transphobic, from mere personal opinions to accidents to actual transphobia, i just can’t trust a blanket “foo is transphobic” comment.