Develop a popular web application framework and blog compulsively about exterminating the immigrants.

If the best sales pitch for your political movement is the trolley problem, your political movement is dead.

Gentoo is legit. Requires a bit of maintenance to set up and run, but it has excellent documentation and competent maintainers. I've been using it on my desktop machine for 6 years now.

It's really starting to sound like authoritarianism is "whenever we lose."

On the surface it is a very welcome improvement, but the slopification of kernel development continues.

It has to be Yemen. Who else is it going to be? I don't think the logistical situation has been transformed in any way since they had to pull back from Iran.

random post which crossed my timeline, treat as a rumor

Naa maybe they are that stupid.

I've never tried Obsidian, but I am personally a huge fan of Org mode. On the surface, it is an Emacs mode for making outlines, but it is extremely feature rich. I use it in combination with Syncthing, which I also use to keep my password database up to date. There is also a third-party vim plugin available - vim-orgmode. (I don't know if vim plugin mean it works in neovim though).

Documents produced in Org mode are just a form of structured text. It is like Markdown in this respect, where a document can be understood without any formatting applied. But with a proper editor, all of the sections become foldable, you can have functional checklists, TODOs, time tracking, calendars, tables (with formulas), embedded code snippets and more. There is also a lot of software for introspection and transforming org documents into other formats (like HTML). Support obviously is best in Org mode itself (in Emacs), but there are a growing number of third party tools which are compatible with the format (like vim-orgmode which you might be interested in, or Orgro which I use on my Android phone).

Currently, I am watching a series of math lectures and have been using Org mode for note taking. The ability to painlessly embed inline LaTeX snippets has made it very useful for this in particular.

Unlike browser extensions though twitter will start loading for a bit before it kicks in.

This can be averted with a two hop method using the libredirect extension to redirect to an intermediary nitter instance (I will be using xcancel as an example) then having the user script redirect from there to a random healthy nitter instance.

What about a user script which runs on the original page (the one with a link to x.com, e.g. Hexbear, but even just wildcarded) which replaces the URL of the links?

I guess I'm being literal in that i dont think Americans in general have the appetite for the kind of violence that comes with a literal revolution.

I agree, but I think this is typically the case. Good people characteristically aren't looking for an excuse to commit gratuitous acts of violence. Revolutionary violence usually takes the form of self defense, rather than a spontaneous righteous crusade against the status quo. Consider Minneapolis in 2020. After Derek Chauvin executed George Floyd on camera, people did the "proper" Liberal thing and assembled non-violently to pressure the government to bring criminal charges. For three days, they were surveilled and assaulted with batons and mace and "less lethal" munitions. Without this egregious overreaction from the state, the situation would have never advanced to the point of acute physical skirmishes between activists and police departments reinforced by the National Guard across the country. Within the span of a few short weeks, the situation transformed from the uneasy calm of the Covid quarantine, to the largest domestic uprising seen since the assassination of MLK. The largest Millennials have ever seen in their lifetime, anyway.

This is the pattern I expect to continue playing out. The government is losing its finesse and is reacting with brutality to political forces it was once comfortable ignoring completely. More recently, the crackdown against anti-genocide protesters on college campuses has been another example. Another case of tens of thousands of people applying the "proper" Liberal methods, non-violence, free speech, assembly, and being attacked with lawfare, expulsion, surveillance, SWAT teams, skirmishes with vigilante mobs, chemical weapons, imprisonment, and deportation. While this didn't advance to the same level of acute crisis, it did transform a handful of largely academic and self-gratifying (for lack of a better term) encampments confined to university grounds into a continuous series of national headlines and much more mobile and chaotic wave of demonstrations.

We saw this again with the skirmishes between anti-ICE activists and "Operation Metro Surge." We're still not at the point where we're just wasting pigs in the street, but acute physical confrontations between the state and the public are becoming much more regular. People are getting killed in these skirmishes. Doctors and mothers. We are already catching visceral glimpses of the battle to come.

We're far away from having a people's army, but I think people in general are much more prepared for a rapid pivot to "Plan B" than they were 10 or 20 years ago. The fantasy that any of our problems can be fixed with a march on Congress is thoroughly dead. There is a unanimous inevitability to it. It is only unclear what will be the spark. Which will be the situation that gets totally out of hand?

This is a good point. Liberals can only comprehend domestic opposition to the US (or the "West" more broadly) under a framework of social contagion. They are doomed to reverse the cause and effect eternally. Hasan is one prominent example, but this is the case in general. Before Hasan was in the spotlight, widespread hatred of "Israel" was TikTok's fault. Or going further back, it couldn't be that the public broadly rejected Hillary Clinton, it had to be Russian bots on Facebook. The public is never allowed to be correct in their judgement of things like "genocide is abhorrent," or "we need to disarm and dismantle the fucking pigs," or "Brian Thompson deserved it." The explanation always has to be that the public is immature, or it's being tricked. The cause must always be externalized to some "outside agitator." Why else would the humble slaves raise their scythes in anger against their benevolent masters?

From the Liberal point of view, the institutions are tautologically legitimate. They can never fail. They can only be failed by substandard leadership. They are fundamentally incapable of separating concepts like "democracy" from their idols, the US and "Israel." They cannot possibly comprehend why the destruction of the US and "Israel" are prerequisites to justice, democracy, civil liberty, academic freedom, cultural inclusivity, world peace, and all the other great things Liberals generally believe in abstract.

I was today years old when I found out gnuplot has no affiliation whatsoever with the GNU Project, nor is it licensed under the GPL.