teawrecks

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[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Literally yes. I mean, his goal, is to feel like a big boy who can wield an army to silence dissent. The goal of the wealthy around him is to fully dismantle the country so only they are left to pick up the pieces.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Unfortunately, it just doesn't matter. The GOP playbook has been: accuse the other side of doing the bad thing, and then do the bad thing, so that when you get accused it sounds like more of the same.

It doesn't matter if we have 1000 independently verified videos of Elon himself paying vote counters to fake results while holding the newspaper of that day up next to his birth certificate. People against trump will say "yeah, we know", and people for Trump will say, "he won, get over it".

It's the same reason the courts found Trump guilty of falsifying records, and then did nothing: that's not how this situation resolves itself.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago

It is very rare for the president to send the National Guard into a state without the governor's cooperation. The last time was when LBJ used it to protect pro civil rights protestors in Alabama.

Unfortunately, Trump's goal in LA is not so well-intentioned, it's to establish authority so ICE can continue disappearing citizens without due process. It is, for all intents and purposes of the word, an invasion. Thing is, if Newsom attempts to intervene, Trump would loooove to arrest him for treason. And if they do nothing, and protestors step aside, ICE will just continue disappearing people, moving state to state, pushing and pushing, further and further, hoping that someone gives him an excuse to escalate.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 month ago

I feel like we're all saying the same thing: if you make peaceful revolution impossible, you make violent revolution inevitable. It's not about what's right or wrong, or what the public should or should not do; it's about which of those two options Trump himself has decided we're doing. And he has chosen....poorly.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

as evidenced by his nazi salute earlier this year.

I would say the more compelling evidence is the fact that his entire family wealth is a direct result of Apartheid, and now that it has earned him literal richest man in the world status, he uses that status to go out in public and, without a hint of irony, say that white people in South Africa are victims of racism.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 26 points 1 month ago

Cooperating with the law is often percieved as an act of defiance with this administration, though.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Side note: If part of your prep for an OS wipe involves making copies of critical information, I recommend re-evaluating your backup strategy. You should be able to lose any device at any time without warning, and not lose any data.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

Every state should be involved in these lawsuits, especially the ones who pretend the civil war was about states rights.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

iirc it was using Method 3 on this guide (but my efi path looks different).

Edit: oh, I also definitely used bcdedit /copy to clone the windows entry, and then edited the clone.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 24 points 1 month ago

Steve Bannon, the one who has openly stated the strat is to "flood the zone," thereby rendering media coverage useless.

But of course this headline is important and we should all pay attention to it.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Unfortunately, the windows bootloader issues are also ingrained in UEFI for many motherboards. Every few days I start my PC up and it has decided my grub entry is garbage and does me the favor of removing it and defaulting back to the windows bootloader.

I've worked around this by adding a bootcfg entry to the windows bootloader that points at grub. Now any time this happens, I pick the grub entry from the windows bootloader, my PC reboots, and now it'll keep defaulting to grub again until the next time it decides to wipe it.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well...there is one thing they have in common.

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