Like most words it can mean different things depending on context. I’ll do my best to cover a few without spoiling it with my own opinions.

The most common usage is as a blanket pejorative aimed at anyone who identifies as leftist but also openly endorses authoritarian means or ends.

There are also those who embrace the term and they are also not all the same. There are Marxist-Leninists who believe the only path to a stateless egalitarian society is through a revolutionary vanguard party. There are also those who argue that egalitarian society can only be achieved and maintained through benevolent authoritarianism.

In any case, the term carries an implication of authoritarianism and/or revolutionary violence, hence “tanks.”

There has been a noticeable uptick in new rightist accounts lately.

Instead of blocking people, I tag the bad actors in Voyager and have noticed that most of the toxicity comes from the same small group of specific people.

Try Bazzite first. It really is the best beginner Linux distro, especially for gaming.

If you decide you want more control, switch to Fedora KDE.

Bazzite and Fedora, in my experience, are the two distros that “just work” best for new users on the widest variety of hardware.

Cachy is fantastic, but I wouldn’t recommend switching to it unless you need even more control and have become very comfortable on the command line. It’s not a distro I would recommend anyone start with.

You will also see Mint recommended often, but I’ve had problems with hardware support — usually on newer builds — and I absolutely hate Cinnamon, its default desktop environment. I would honestly only look at distros that include KDE Plasma out of the box, and Mint does not.

This is good, but I wish it included suppliers. Too many restaurants don’t actually know if some of their ingredients — especially processed ingredients like flour — may have been cross contaminated and don’t want to statements about certain things as a result. I worry this will result in false sense of safety by consumers with allergies because the restaurant doesn’t use it directly but uses a contaminated ingredient, or restaurants listing all potential major allergens on everything to cover themselves.

Republican Party

Build a time machine and go back in time to stop WebOS from being sold to HP.

Image description: The Time Magazine cover from April 13, 1936, depicting Adolf Hitler.

Because the American theocracy is built around their most holy of books, “Atlas Shrugged.” Greed and selfishness are noble pursuits, and whoever is hurt by them deserves it because they weren’t strong enough to fight back and win.

Because that is historically what they have done. Republicans know that can take advantage of Democrats “weakness” of being able to compromise. The illegal firing of furloughed workers is metaphorically the Republican terrorists executing hostages until their demands are met. They don’t care about the damage they are doing, but they know their opponents do. They have also historically used the tactic successfully.

They expect it has worked in the past. They will keep executing their hostages and they will keep blaming their own willful destruction on those who won’t just give them everything they want. What they are too stupid to realize is that many of their hostages are their own people, and the only thing that makes a rightist reconsider their sick ideology is when it comes back to bite them personally.

There are two “just works” distros I recommend to new users: Bazzite or Fedora.

Start with Bazzite. It is familiar and has lots of guardrails so it’s nearly impossible to break.

If you decide you want more control over your system later, switch to Fedora KDE.

If you decide you want even more control and flexibility, consider CachyOS or OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.

You will see Mint recommended a lot, but I don’t like it. The default desktop — Cinnamon — is very Windows 95, and I much prefer KDE Plasma, which doesn’t work well on Mint. Mint also has driver issues with newer hardware. But if you like retro and your hardware is older, give it a try.

Avoid Pop_OS right now. It’ll probably be amazing in a year, but the new Cosmic desktop (currently a beta) has a lot of annoying bugs with common linux GUI packages.

GamePassBox is not popular while people struggle to afford even the basic costs of living? Who could have predicted this?

“Rapist murderers gotta look out for each other.” - Trump

Illegal firings. All of these are illegal.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-hamas-united-states-negotiations-gaza-ceasefire-witkoff-netanyahu

I have not allowed myself to feel proud or hopeful as I know that, at any moment, they will give the fascists everything they want and all of this will have been for nothing.

SalesForce also owns Slack and Tableau, in case you now need to find non-nazi platforms to migrate toward.

Remember, non-US alternatives are good, but be aware that fascism is metastasizing globally, don’t assume a non-US alternative is automatically safe. To beat this, we need to use due diligence in all things.

“Don’t give money to charity!”

What is it called when tell you people to do the exact opposite of all the things Christ commanded? If only there were a word or phrase for that.

To a fascist, everything left of fascism is “radical left.” It’s mostly ignorance. You don’t become a rightist by being smart or nuanced.

Liberalism sounds leftist at first because the word suggests permissiveness. In reality, liberalism allows for the consolidation of wealth and power in ways that naturally result in society moving rightward. Neoliberals take it a step further by being more active in their theft of wealth and power rather than passive. Liberals are often described as “center-left” but they are essentially a kind of right-leaning centrist. You might also hear the term “enlightened centrist” used pejoratively for liberals who haughtily want to pretend to be “above” the left-right spectrum.

Leftism is ultimately about egalitarianism, particularly of wealth and power. This requires certain controls to prevent consolidation which results in rightist structures like feudalism, dictatorships, oligarchies, and the like. Liberals are against such controls, and so are enablers of rightism.

This is the leftist viewpoint, at least.

Notice which instance you are on and then remember that liberals are not leftists.

Microsoft is already starting to lay the groundwork with their CPU, SecureBoot, and TPM 2.0 requirements.

Apple has been doing this for a long time, though there are ways to get around it on MacOS, for now.

On PC, the answer is Linux. For mobile devices, things are looking more bleak.