The USSR existed back then and the USSR was doing very well at the time up until 1975,
right after the petrodollar scheme was made and SWIFT was introduced.
Because of that, the US had strong labour unions.
Socialism was popular back then,
although the US was also able to propagandize that it was explicitly not doing that in the slightest.

Nowadays, the US will have to fight again against capitalism.
And capitalists are warring to survive, not just abroad,
but at home as well.
Their ideology currently is that capitalism has won,
communism has lost and therefore any concessions to the left
will no longer have to be made.

And US Social democracy isn’t coming from the top this time,
when FDR decided to take a turn for the left and continued going left,
up until Jimmy Carter was replaced by Ronald Reagen.

This time it’s coming from Zohran Mamdani
and this time it looks like it’s taking the form of democratic socialism,
a step more to the left than social democracy.

With better job availibility, your father would have had a much easier time
maintaining a good income and thus a family.
You however, would have a trade-off.
Better job security, but little to no knowledge of your sexuality.
Also terrible medical practises, barbaric in some fields.

Linux Mint?

Risug is in trials forever.

It’s very likely to have been
deliberately held back for decades now
by a true conspiracy and for petty reasons.

1. Vasectomies (+ birth control pills)
2. animal testing for human research.
3. I’m sure that anyone working in a hospital can cough up a few dozen more.

RISUG has been invented in 1978,
is reversable, cheaper, zero side effects,
and with so far 0% failure rate when implemented properly,
Vasalgel, an improvement on RISUG by having a longer shelf-life,
has been invented around 2015.

So this stuff has been invented in the same year as the first Star Wars movie,
had gone through all trials multiple times with flying colors,
and instead we use knives and pills with large side effects.

If any invention could be been ubiquitous in use at a much earlier stage,
then this would be it.
It could and should have been widely used by the 1980’s.

For animal testing we have 3D printed human tissue.
So why test on animals if your question is “Does this stuff work on human tissue?”
The answer you’ll be getting is whether or not it works on mice.
Mice are not human.

Arch is better because…

• pacman, seriously, I don’t hear enough of how great pacman is.
  Being able to search easily for files within a package is a godsend when some app refuses to work giving you an error message “lib_obscure.so.1 cannot be found”.
  I haven’t had such issues in a long time, but when I do, I don’t have to worry about doing a ten hour search, if I’m lucky, for where this obscure library file is supposed to be located and in what package it should be part of.
• rolling release. Non-rolling Ubuntu half-year releases have broken my OS in the past around 33% of the time. And lots of apps in the past had essential updates I needed, but required me to wait 5 months for the OS to catch up.
• AUR. Some apps can’t be found anywhere but AUR.
• Their wiki is the best of all Linuxes

The “cult” is mostly gushing over AUR.

No, Gentoo is the hardest.

the wiki and forums are the best of any distro

If you don’t participate in it that is.
If you veer only a little off of their strict rules,
then Arch forum will ban you and they won’t allow you to even read the forum.

Unity would be the first example, and although Unity was actually a good DE,
it was too bloated and almost non-modifiable.

People jumped ship to Linux Mint that had its priorities straight.

Mir and Snap were bigger issues though
as Wayland and Flatpak were great replacements for
X11 and AppImage and did not need another competitor.

But the privacy issues were the straw that broke the camel’s back.
People left windows for linux so they wouldn’t have to deal with this kind of nonsense.

I actually jumped when Ubuntu jumped to Gnome 3.
Gnome 3 was too bloated for me and it looked ugly.

I decided to see what Arch Linux was about
and eventually settled for Manjaro Linux.
Arch + Xfce for the win.

• Apps not available in distro repositories
• Apps with dependency conflicts

Oligarchs and their bootlickers

Boomers = 1950-1964
Gen X = 1965-1979
Gen Y = 1980-1994
Gen Z = 1995-2009
Gen α = 2010-2025

So ages

18-29 30-44 45-59 60+

Georg Hub, is that you?

As long as you don’t use any of the windows and use the front door like my pet penguin, I won’t mind.
And there’s a kernel of truth in there and by that I don’t mean the kernel of an apple.

I don’t think that’s bold.
It’s already at 25% last month and 50+% in China.

I’m going to agree with you here.
I put Mandami left of center until I rethought
on what I often see and hear from the center-left,
and words often used by the left.

“I don’t think we should have billionaires” sounds very much left-wing to me,
rather than center-left.

Well, when I look at the party’s stances of my country I see a pattern in terms of type of language used,
so maybe one can use that to model how right or left wing one is instead of using some arbitrary
policy like gun laws as a measuring tool.

Hmmmm… those are articles about him.

Does Zoltan have a written election program?
Perhaps by the tone of language I might be able to better tell on what wavelength Mandami is,
compared to the Dutch political parties.

Although I will have to adjust the translation a bit,
to retain the type of language used,
so for example I adjust the translation
in order to keep the language strong,
where strong language is used.

I’ll post an example…

Extreme/Far-right stance on housing (first paragraph)

Our housing crisis keeps getting worse and worse.  
While the Constitution tells us that the government must provide a sufficient amount of housing,  
the reality is that an increasing number of Americans can't afford a roof over one's head.  
This US government completely failed.  

Go to very deep cave. Then write down “资本主义每一次都会导致法西斯主义”

Maybe the decent folks have moved to derivative OSes?
So while techie absolutists stayed at Debian/Arch/RHEL,
the commons folks have gone to Linux Mint/Cachy OS/Fedora?

Can I tell you off from Arch Linux?

There are around three Linux families to choose a derivative Linux OS from,
some are more obscure ones and then some really obscure ones.
Choose one of the Linux family OSes and choose the most popular derivative of that one.
So for example Aurora is a derivative of Fedora, which is a derivative of RHEL (derivative-(in)ception).

The reasons to choose derative OSes and not one of the basic main three is that:

1. The Linux derative OSes have bells and whistles build on top of the parent OS. This is especially true for the extremely bare bones Arch Linux, that will throw you back into 1985.
2. And this is most important… community support! You will at some point have issues and a forum where developers and experienced users can help you out are a godsend. Derivatives tend to have better community support than the bare bone ones. I’ve experienced this with the Arch Linux community. I’m not sure if Debian or RHEL communities would haved fared better, but to me this community felt like having a conversation with a real life Sheldon Cooper. I am really thankful for the excellent expert level help I did get there, but I will not go there back again. And I don’t know if I even can, because the last time I was there, I got banned for a third time.
   I’ve had great experiences on the Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Manjaro communities. Other communities from less popular Linux OSes have been too small in my experience to get help on time.

For Debian, the most popular one right now is Linux Mint, a derivative of Ubuntu (derivative-(in)ception). It used to be Ubuntu, but Ubuntu tends to take big moves and risks that don’t always pay off.
Linux Mint I consider to be the safe option for beginners.
Debian is known for stability.

For Redhat it’s Fedora. I haven’t used it that much.
Redhat is known for good security.

For Arch it’s Endeavour OS and recently Cachy OS.
It used to be Manjaro, but they fumbled a lot on security issues.
Arch is known for having the best documentation,
and the largest amount of software available,
especially made by fellow users,
and if I may add myself, having the best package manager.

I still use Manjaro myself, because I don’t feel enough need to switch to a new one,
and I like the community there.