Merely being in the same room as his stinky ass might very well suffice.

Because he misses having threesomes with Jeffrey and Ivanka?

This just in: Yes-men say “yes”

Crime is up in Trump’s immediate vicinity because he keeps committing crimes and surrounding himself with people who commit crimes on his behalf.

But that’s a sampling error. Most of the country is not as crime-ridden as wherever he goes.

The suggestion is “don’t link to Nazi sites”.

Try text.

Even in a home poker game, it is not possible for all the players to go home having made a profit, whereas that is very possible in the stock market due to growth, labor, and natural resources.

(The coal miner who gets a wage and black lung is not a player in the stock market. Neither is the sun, which provides free energy to agribusiness.)

In gambling, the house always wins, by extracting value from the players. In stock trading, the players (capitalists) collectively always win, by extracting value from labor, technological growth, and natural resources. These are not the same picture.

Sure, you can take on as much risk as you like using derivatives, and emulate a gambler using the stock market as a source of randomness (volatility). But that’s not how most traders behave, and it’s not how most traders’ payoffs work.

As the article mentions, Red Hat is IBM.

For what it’s worth, getting in the habit of making excuses for one’s use is part of alcoholism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_National_Jews

Abject prostration to fascism will not save you, and tankies are fascists.

The Democrats have been a solidly center-right party for decades. JFK wasn’t a leftist! Today, the party has a small left wing, the DSA, represented by people like AOC; but the mainstream of the party remains solidly right-of-center. Democrats support big business, private land ownership, free trade, wage labor, and the rest of the center-right consensus.

The Republicans, however, drifted from “a little bit right of the Democrats” to “for-real fascist” over the course of the Reagan, Bush, Cheney¹, and Trump administrations. Today, the leader of the Republicans is a Hitler fan.

So, as usual, the first-past-the-post voting system sucks utter ass … but Americans today have a choice between a center-right president and a Nazi president.

¹ Yes, the Cheney administration. Nobody believes Bush Jr. was actually calling the shots.

I blame Likud.

Accelerationism aims at putting fascists into power; thus it is a species of fascism.

SLS and Yggdrasil came out in '92; Slackware in '93; Red Hat in '95.

The Debian project started in '93, but the first stable release wasn’t until '96, along with Linux kernel version 2.0.

Ubuntu didn’t come along until 2004.

Third, I know you’re just trying to troll, but we generally use anti-semetic to refer to anti-jewish.

More specifically, “antisemitism” comes from the German Antisemitismus which was popularized as a more technical-sounding euphemism for Judenhass (Jew-hate). It never meant “antipathy towards Semitic-language speakers”.

The people who proudly called themselves antisemites, and formed the Antisemiten-Liga (Antisemites League) did not target Arabs, Ethiopians, or other speakers of the Semitic language family; they targeted Jews.

So you’re into sending the police after the writers, directors, and producers of the Saw movies, but not the audiences?

I dunno man, that’s still too fascist for my tastes, but you can keep fantasizing about it. I promise I won’t try to send the police after you for your perverted fantasies of state power.

I hate torture-porn movies like the Saw series, but a lot of people are fans of them. Should I worry that those people are likely to commit kidnapping, torture, and murder? Should I advocate that the makers or watchers of those movies be investigated for kidnapping, torture, and murder — without any evidence that a crime was committed?

We don’t send the cops after people for liking murder stories, theft stories, industrial sabotage stories, or treason stories. We shouldn’t send the cops after people for liking stories of Harry Potter getting fucked by Severus Snape either.

I think you should be more careful to distinguish fantasy from reality. Most fiction readers and writers have no problem doing so.

I’m just saying, police investigation of fiction creators and readers for the content of their fiction is way over the line of a lot of social and political norms.

(Also, I think you’ll find that police abuse children a lot more than pervy fiction fans do; so really, who should be investigating whom? Investigation into crime is supposed to start with evidence that a crime actually occurred — not with your personal disgust towards someone’s reading matter.)