Aceticon

All those liberals going along with the idea that it's possible to discriminate in a positive way only have themselves to blame when it turned out that their "positive" support of those they perceive as representatives of an ethnicity whom they (the liberals) view as "victims" as whole (i.e. all individuals of that ethnicity, rather than just the actual victims) was just racist prejudice and discrimination and stupidly easy to abuse to support ethnic cleansing (as long as those doing the murdering are from a "victim" race).

Support for any kind of ethnic-wide assumptions about people and different standards of judgement and actions towards them based on their ethnicity, is the very same kind of view of one's fellow human beings as the Nazis had, just with different "good" races and "bad" races.

People should be judged on and treated based on what they support and what they do, not the ethnicity they were born into.

This kind of shit is a carbon copy of how the Nazis used claims of people being "against the Aryan race" to deflect criticism of the actions of the Nazis.

I think this is religion being weaponized to support the extreme depravity of an ethno-Fascist ideology, rather than an inherent drive in that religion.

In other words, the problem with Religions is not them having an inherent tendency for this kind of thing, is that they are extremely easy to capture and use to support even the most depraved behaviours, being capable of excusing actions well beyond what most other prepackaged belief systems are able to successfully excuse.

In summary, I don't think Religion is a driver of this kind of shit, I think it's an enabler.

The greatest antisemitism there is, is trying to link the most depraved nation state of the XXI century (so far) and its actions, to all Jewish People, both by its implying that any actions commited by that nation state no matter how depraved and violent are How Jews Behave, and because such "representation by a nation state" would only be possible if "all Jews are the same", both things which are extreme racist takes.

Holocaust admission AND Holocaust denial have now both been deemed antisemitic by the ethno-Fascist nation state that claims to represent all Jewish People.

I had the exact same experience: been doing Linux since the 90s, both for fun and professionaly - the latter mainly in pure server configurations - finaly got around to moving my home PC (which is mainly for gaming) to Linux (using Pop!OS, since I have a Nvidia graphics card and it just supports it out of the box) and it just worked.

Only problem I have with it is that on startup of X I usually get a blank screen and have to switch my monitor OFF and back ON again.

Oh, and startup times are a fraction of Windows startup times (my Windows 10 work machine literally takes longer to wake up from hybernation than my home Linux PC takes to cold boot, and they have equivalent SSDs.

I think I got more hassle with Windows than I do with Linux.

I mean, just from looking at History, we should've expected that the Dystopia we would get was one were things are shit for most people but we're constantly fed fables that "actually it's all good", "for you it's going to be fine (trust me)" or that "it's all the fault of the poor and foreigners" (or all three, in sequence, as things get more undeniably bad).

That said, at least looking back at teenage me, I don't think that at that age one is worldly or wise enough (and many people never are) to figure out that the most likely way for us to be screwed would involve some grand scale variant of the "one hand in our pockets whilst the other is waving in front of our faces to distract us" strategy.

Only a rabid racist would - through claiming that anything critical said about that nation is anti-semitism - imply that a nation station state whose actions approach those of the Nazis in their depravity represents all the Jewish People.

It's hard to be more anti-semite than conflation a nation mass murdering children with the Jewish People as a whole.

Rich people just love Fascism and here's an ethno-Fascist nation for some of them, claiming that their ethnicity makes them superior to everybody else, so of course they'll tend to support them.

It's not at all surprising that the moneyed elites amongst the Jewish People would side with a regime that says they're inherently superior, same as the German elites sided with the Nazis. I mean, back in early Nazi times even the British moneyed elites were very drawn to Nazism and its ideas of racial superiority (there's even a photo of young princess Elizabeth being taught by her uncle - the then King - how to do a Nazi salute) up until the point Germany actually invaded Poland.

You see the very wealthy supporting supremacists of their ethnicity all throughout History, no "conspiracy" necessary.

Historically, quite independently of ethnicity you'll find it's the well educated middle classes that most resist the pull of chauvinism, and that seems to be exactly what we're seeing amongst the Jewish People now that the self-proclaimed representative of them all as full revealed itself as a Genocidal project.

Ah, good old New Labour, siding with the modern day Nazis committing their very own Holocaust in Gaza.

The UK is almost as fucked up as the US.

(Though, judging by the march of 600k people against the Genocide, most Brits are not, and it's the power and money elites that, as usual, can't stop themselves from loving the most violent Fascism and Fascists same as when a young princess Elizabeth was being taught by her uncle and then King how to do a Nazi salute - the whole ubermenschen vs untermenshen view of the World seems to have massive appeal amongst British elites).

Logically, third party votes were only "effectively a vote for Trump" if you assume that otherwise all of them would be votes for the Democrat Party AND that the Democrats could not possibly win without those people sacrificing their vote to a party that doesn't represent them (i.e. that it would be impossible for the Democrats to appeal to those voters the way politicians are supposed to, by supporting policies that those voters wanted).

As an outsider, it's painfully obvious that the Democrat Party establishment strategy was to try and get those votes without trying to appeal to those voters using the exactly Propaganda you're still now parroting, and it failed miserably.

They tried to cheat at representative politics (by wanting the votes without offering representation) and failed (worse, failed when their adversary was a loudmouth buffoon), but you're blaming those who wouldn't vote for those who did not at all want to represent them.

Interestingly, Zohran is starting to show that the strategy of appealing to such voters is a winning strategy (in other words that the Democrat Party establishment did not won because of their refusal to represent in any way left of center voters), a proof which will become undeniable if the NY Mayoral race ends up as a three horse race with him, Cuomo and a Republican and he wins.

Trump won A SECOND TERM after his ineptitude during his first exactly because of that.

To try to win against an outright Fascist they were only willing to go as far cosying up to the Cheney family.