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That is the wrong interpretation though. It is the person in the house pretending to have friends when the pizza delivery guy arrives.

They can afford it. After all there are only two entries on the Republican federal budget: 1. grifting money. 2. money to the paramilitary to foment and subsequently suppress dissent.

They never believed in any of that. They pretended to because that is what they felt was necessary in order to keep their grift going, but Trump has shown them that they don’t have to pretend anymore. They can openly grift and their voters will love them for it.

That is not what the OP is about though.

grab another disk and try dual booting and poking around.

Yeah, that is what I have decided to do. Not least just to test how compatible my hardware is. I may need a new GPU since my current one is nvidia, but as far as I understand it, it may still be able to run.

I see. It is google translate though (the translation duckduckgo provided was even more horrendous).

“Salut maman, Comment tu vas ? Coincé pour un moment avec son jeu de mort, avait-il déclaré. Ça va trop loin. J’ai l’impression d’être séquestré avec leur concept de merde. J’en ai marre, je veux me barrer, l’autre il veut pas, il me séquestre”. (“Hey Mom, how are you? Stuck for a while with his death game,” he said. “This is going too far. I feel like I’m being held captive with their shitty concept. I’m fed up, I want to get out, the other guy doesn’t want me, he’s holding me captive.”)

Source

Because Trump the Putin-sycophant will threaten to remove all aid to Ukraine for the nth time if they do it without his permission.

People thought Hitler was charismatic as well. I think the thing is that these kinds of people are only charismatic to a certain subset of people. Hateful narcissistic morons mostly, and then probably because they see themselves in them.

Definitely. His favourite decisions are when he can both grift and satisfy his pathological narcissism at the same time.

Lots and lots of Americans are perfectly fine with tyranny, as long as they believe it is their tyranny being imposed. Also what does size have to do with anything?

Yeah, as a non-American, having lived with being exposed all my life to the American propagated myth about Americans being the most freedom loving and individualistic people on Earth, it is a bit curious to see how quick and unopposed the implementation of dictatorship in the US is.

If you are a power user like me, Linux is getting closer to a real alternative to Windows

As someone who is on the verge of making the switch to linux, it is a bit daunting that linux is presented as only “getting closer” and not actually being a real alternative to Windows.