The downtown of any major city.

Why do you think almost every major city has a subway? The number of people who need to move around in the city far exceeds the available road space, without public transit, the entire city would be clogged with traffic.

Even in a more meta sense, cities can and should be healthy places that are built on a human scale. Necessitating cars for everybody pollutes more than just the air. Tires and brakes wear down, leaving microplastics and heavy metals to be washed into rivers when it rains. Noise pollution from cars makes cities unpleasant and the air quality creates worse health outcomes for the people living there.

Human societies have existed without cars for thousands of years, and we already have a way to traverse cities effectively that predates widespread adoption of personal vehicles, mass public transit.

Those things are fine, but why does every single person need to drive their own car everywhere, including the places where public transit is the far more effective and healthy choice.

I would recommend being familiar with config files and comfortable with the command line and bash. It’s a very powerful being able to rebuild your OS at will. I would also look into Bazzite if you are interested in immutable distros.

I recommend firing up a virtual pc first with the distro first to get a feel for it.

I think the Dutch are doing it as well. I’m all for it, when I switched my laptop over from Windows 11 to NixOS, it stopped running at like a 100 degrees while doing nothing more than streaming video and light compiling.

Their senate seats need to be replaced with people like Mamdani either way

I mean, they are probably running RedHat or Debian on their servers anyway, so if it’s reliable enough for them, then it’s reliable enough for clients.

Yeah, that’s a good thing, but Senate minority leader and deputy are actual positions of authority and that means their decisions and opinions matter. Which is the source of my criticism of the DNC

The point being argued here is that they need to be replaced by people like Mamdani, so the party can actually start digging the country out of the hell hole we find ourselves in.

The DNC has to start pushing out the establishment Dems or the party WILL disintegrate.

You must have some memory loss ,because Mamdani lacked the establishment Democrats support. https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/11/04/congress/schumer-ultimately-rejects-mamdani-endorsement-00636312

Schumer caving on Trump’s big grift bill was the final nail in the coffin for the old Democrats. Ain’t it a coincidence that the 8 non-republicunts that voted for Trump’s dogshit weren’t up for reelection, so they could push the bill without damaging their image.

That’s entirely meaningless that he supported mamdani in the general. Who tf else was he going to endorse? Silwa?

He supported him because he had no choice but to and Jeffries support at the 11th hour is just as meaningless. The DNC needs to be reformed, because the only other path is to go the way of the Whigs.

P.A. Luty’s expedient homemade firearms

All that obesity is about to come in clutch.

The abandoned this a few days ago because of a law suit that rightfully pointed out that because ICE refuses to make themselves easily identifiable, the rule is impossible to follow. A drone operator can’t know where an Ice vehicle is before launching a drone.

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So Finland was a legitimate target because 20 years prior they were a jumping off point for the losing side of a civil war? Is that the gist?

It was actually precipitated by the Soviet’s demand that the Fins cede territory that kicked off the war.

You are siding with the imperialists here.

Oh, I assure you, I have no red tinted glasses for my home. We are run by a decaying orange pedophile and his fascist sycophants.

That means I’m less inclined to trade one set of unaccountable “elites” for another just because they don’t like each other.

China is a state capitalist society that has the very same problem the US does. Overproduction of a group of “elites (parasites)” that need more and more power and wealth so they can get more power and more wealth.

Chinas actions towards the HK protestors and towards Taiwan indicates they are imperialist, which is a non starter for me already.

“Gawd Dam LibrUls”.

You sound like my Trumper Dad

Not being able to disagree with how your government conducts business without legal punishment.

Non authoritarian states don’t have dissidents in exile or political prisoners.

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The Soviets invaded Poland in conjunction with the Nazis under the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, are you sure you want to go down that route now?

So 13 out of 14 people do not belong to the only political coalition (the 8 parties with 700,000 members total don’t really count as “opposition parties”) that is legally allowed in their country?

In reference to my original post, we agree that authoritarianism is bad and you are arguing the case that China and the CCP is not authoritarian, correct?