I feel for you. I’m a German American dude married into a family of Salvadoreños and we have illegals in our circle of friends/family. Very few of my family members are taking this seriously or treating it with the level of concern it deserves. People just don’t have the capacity to understand unmitigated corruption and evil. Most people have something that stops them from being shitlords, whether it’s their god, some sort of moral compass, a desire to be liked by others, or whatever. Trump and company don’t have that at all. It’s pure evil and corruption to the core. It will not be pretty when these two groups and their goals clash.

I hope you can eventually find your way to a blue state, but I’m honestly not even sure that’s enough when they’re planning on sending national guardsmen from red states into blue states to do their bidding. Couple that with the fact that elections are effectively over in this country and it paints a horrifying picture for the country and the rest of the world.

I’ve had thoughts about checking out that I can’t share with family or really even online for the sake of triggering others and for fear of giving the thoughts credibility in my mind. I have a wife and two young kids that depend on me, so I suppose I will do my best. Their German passports arrive this week and we leave shortly before inauguration day.

Trump’s tariffs will wreck Europe’s economy. Refugees from Ukraine will come pouring in. AfD will continue to make gains in Germany. CDU will probably win the snap elections that are coming after Scholz loses his vote of confidence. They’ll eventually work with AfD as voter pressure ramps up and thus give AfD credibility in the coming years.

I’d still take my chances with Germany rather than stay within the USA.

Many of those countries use the USD as their primary or only currency. Though if the collapse is more gradual I suspect they’ll be using the RMB like the rest of us before it’s all said and done.

Even a blue state would be better. Though I think that depends on how much blue state governors resist.

I feel exactly the same. I think people should start to self sort. I’m moving to Germany so of course the government collapsed.

People don’t seem to understand that Trump is the Russians’ inside job.

The call is coming from inside of the house. The policies are meant to be bad on purpose. The people that destroy the country will be on planes to Moscow when all is said and done.

Russia won. The oligarchs won. We lost. That’s all there is to it.

It took me around an hour to do it but I think it was either skim or 2%. Not sure I could’ve done chocolate or full fat. I got really dizzy and felt like total shit. I had to fast for a few days to feel normal again.

Apparently it’s really dangerous. But I was 23 and big into competitive eating at the time so I had probably prepared myself physically somewhat if such a thing is possible.

0/10 do not recommend.

I did this once and shit cold milk out of my ass.

The major porn sites should go dark right now in protest. On inauguration day. For a month.

I love that brain worms has fully entered the lexicon at this point. Can’t wait for those New Year recaps.

This was consistently for me too. I learned more world history from PC games than I did in school.

My history classes were how heroic the founding fathers were (nothing about how they owned slaves until college), how the civil war was about states rights, how we kicked total ass in WW2 except FDR was kind of a dictator and had too many terms, and how LBJ fucked up Vietnam and it was his fault we lost. They did offer an AP History class and it was a bit more truthful than what I had so far up to that point, but was still subject to the same school board’s oversight.

It was very “both sides had a point but the rightmost point is the correct one”.

This was in the 90s and early 2000s in rural Appalachia.

Once I got to college I was like uhhhh what? It’s crazy to me that the federal government subsidizes and provides education that is going to lead to its own downfall. Maybe we DO need to dismantle the department of Education.

Holy shit did I just red pill myself?

Joking of course. These people can’t even govern their own impulses (see Epstein and rampant pedophilia on the right).

The first time it was sort of like “Holy shit. They won?” and there were adults and career bureaucrats in the room that limited some of the damage. Even though it was still really bad. A million plus people died in the USA because of covid being politicized. Now, he’s been prosecuted and found guilty for all the illegal shit he did while in office, so for them it was win or die in jail. And additionally, they’ve now got Project 2025/Agenda 47 (theyrethesamepicture.jpg) and years of preparation as to how to do the most damage. They’ve also shown that they are willing to undo decades of legal and historical precedent with their repeal of Roe v Wade. So yes. We “survived”, but he irreparably damaged the country once before, and now he’s back for round two. There’s a high likelihood there will be no meaningful resistance as over 2/3rds of the country tacitly (through non voting) or actively supports this administration.

Climate change? That’s gonna get a lot worse. Ukraine Aid? That’s gone. Protection for LGBTQ And marriage equality? Likely gone.

They have promised a massive dragnet deportation scheme where red state national guard will invade blue states and kidnap their residents to be deported without any proper training to know who is legal or not.

And that’s just day 1. So no. It’s not looking great.

Additionally Trump has dementia and doesn’t seem to know how tariffs work so the economy will probably be fucked again (remember those 4 am Mcdonald’s Hamberder shit tweets that tanked global markets at random?). Vance will eventually be president when Trump is too far gone and who knows what that kooky bastard will do.

Also, they didn’t even need to cheat. Dems didn’t turn out, and now the republicans have control of the house, the senate, the supreme court (for generations now no less), and the presidency. So the American public has given these lunatics a mandate.

It is incredible isn’t it? The Germans have seen first hand that some speech should not be free and they understand that the intolerant cannot be tolerated. Which is why they have the Brandmauer and there are talks to ban AfD. Trump should have never been allowed to run this time around, and if AfD is found to be undemocratic, they will be banned as well. 15% of the country may not like it, but that’s tough shit.

Their system is actually a modern parliamentary government where it’s not winner take all. Proportional representation with ranked choice voting is what the USA needs to move to. We need to get off the two party system, but the parties who benefit are the ones who make the change. Also our third parties are absolute dogshit. Green and Libertarian. So culturally the USA needs to field some better policies and candidates. The problem is the right wing is so powerful that the left cannot meaningfully put together a real competitive coalition. Even the democrats would be center right in most other developed countries. So yeah, fascism is coming to the USA, whether it comes in 2024, 2028, or 2032, it’s coming and hopefully it doesn’t take the rest of the world out with it. The EU needs to be prepared to lose the USA as a primary trading partner and as the head of NATO. This Russia problem we have doesn’t seem to be going away.

I just don’t want my kids getting drafted into some dumb ass fascist conflict. My hope would be that blue states resist when red state national guard is knocking on people’s doors and performing their dragnet deportation operation on anyone too dark a shade of brown. I just don’t see any of this ending well.

I would love to be wrong about all of this by the way. But I grew up in the south, and I’ve seen first hand how the majority feels and thinks about cities, immigrants, LGBTQIA+, marginalized groups, POC, etc.

Got called a nazi kraut my whole school career just for expressing pride in Lebkuchen or Christmas traditions or knowing a little bit of German despite being culturally American and speaking English as my native tongue. The USA has some serious cultural issues to reconcile, and I’m not sure a milquetoast centrist former prosecutor has the right formula to do it.

That’s assuming she wins. She loses, I guess I’m flying out of Canada in January prior to inauguration day.

Installed Pop!_OS from Windows 11 two weeks ago myself.

Ah yes, a family man who wanted a quiet life backed into leaving his country for a place his children might stand a modicum of a chance of having a normal life is the violent one. Not the fascists touting project 2025, turning the military on American citizens, sending red state national guard to blue states to round people up for camps, etc., but I suppose “legal” political violence is okay with you.

I’m fairly certain this has been the plan all along.

Yeah don’t stop there. I’m close.

Good. You orange fuck. You rapist. Racist fucking shit stain asshole. I hope the rest of your sleeps are troubled. May the tightness in your neck grip ever harder in your final days. I hope you’re too much of a coward to commit suicide and you have to live with your actions and see your narcissistic collapse bring the house of cards down.

You’ve forced me to move my family to Germany because of the fascist movement you’ve brought to the US. You’ve had me doomscrolling since at least 2015. You’ve had me changing my travel plans checking flights out of Toronto in order to avoid flying from the US after your inauguration date so that my latino family will have no in-person interaction with any government agent from your regime despite their being citizens. You’ve fucking disrupted an entire world order due to your complicity with Duginism because of your insatiable greed and character flaws leading to Russian kompromat on you, or you’re just a piece of shit because you need the Russian money to keep coming.

You should be in jail at best, and facing a similar fate to Mussolini at worst. So fuck off with your sleepless nights you fucking weak minded piss poor excuse for a person.

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I game on both the deck and a desktop with pop!_os. I can say gaming on my desktop is just as good if not better than the deck for because it can leverage my desktop hardware and it’s way easier to go under the hood with proper peripherals. Linux has come a long way with gaming. Most of the shit that doesn’t run on linux are games that cost too much for too little content or they’re just gonna be battle pass/cosmetic farms that cater to whales and aren’t actually fun in any sense of the word.

If you’re gonna be a top 0.0001% competitive gamer, you’ll probably wanna stick to windows. If you don’t play FPSes competively, a linux based gaming PC is probably fine. Me? I’m a middle aged dude with kids who racks up about 20 hours a week somehow, and linux more than suits my needs.

I’ve had more success with Lutris and Wine in getting certain abandonware games (Black and White for example) to run than I ever did on Windows.