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Haha, classic newbie blunder! You think it’s better to spend money on fixing the problem, instead of making money on redesigning public architecture? Haha, oh my!

It means they are ashamed of the distro they run.

See? You are being elitist. Your first thought is that they hope to elevate themselves somehow by saying they use Arch.

When they might just not be bothered (or don’t know) to say “Arch-based”. Because ultimately, there’s no difference. When you’re troubleshooting packages, or whatever, there’s no functional difference between saying “It’s Arch” and “It’s WhateverTheFuck OS (Arch-based)”. The latter just takes more time to type out.

If you want to go around telling people you use arch

See this? You think people go around telling other what distro they’re using. You are elitist. It’s just an OS, bro.

I think you just need to stop being elitist about it.

Who cares? Honestly - who cares how someone installed their OS? We should be doing everything to get people to switch to Linux (of any flavour), but instead dudes like you go “oh, you have XYZ OS? Well, that’s not really Arch, is it?” What even is the point?

love garuda

An equivalent of Rani should legally mandated to be on all Arch-based distros.

Yes

US and UK weren’t one country. US was a UK colony

Yeah, so exactly as with USSR and Ukraine.

that’s why they celebrate independence day

Yeah, so exactly as with USSR and Ukraine.

The only reason Ukraine and Taiwan want to separate from Russia and China respectively is because of American interference

Nobody gave a shit about Americans in Ukraine when the Orange Revolution happened, or during the Maidan Protests. They just wanted democracy and re-integration with the West.

One more time: Ukraine was an independent country around 400 years before Muscovy (proto-russia) became a thing. It got gobbled up by the various superpowers of the area, but always retained its national identity. Culturally, there’s a very clear continuation from the Kyivan Rus all the way to modern day Ukraine.

You might as well suggest that the Scottish independence movements exist because of “American interference”, even though they existed for hundreds of years before the American Independence.

You’re just repeating russian propaganda points verbatim, so I don’t know if you’re this ignorant, or a russian bot. If it’s ignorance, feel free to ask questions, I know lots of people are super confused with what’s going on in Ukraine and that area due to russian disinformation campaigns.

US and UK used to be one country. Should US now become subservient to the UK based on that?

Are you high, friend? They speak Ukrainian, it’s a completely different language. Similar, but different.

Imagine you’re suggesting that Spain is “basically Brazil” because they “speak Portuguese”.

Calling Ukraine “new” just shows how ignorant you are. Kievan Rus has been around since 11th century. Ukraine is older than russia by 3-4 hundred years.

and it is a former USSR territory

So is half the EU. What’s this got to do with anything?

That’s because 90% of these articles about their technological breakthroughs are bullsht.

Nothing they’ve done in recent years is ground breaking.

Room temperature superconductors? Fake.

Self-driving bus using painted lanes for navigation? We have trains and trams for that.

Thorium reactor? Germany had one in the 80s, shut it down because it was expensive, there’s around 20 different projects happening in Europe and North America to make it more efficient.

The fusion reactor from the article? They maybe potentially hypothetically achieved one breakthrough of the dozens still needed to make fusion viable.

Etc., etc.

100% agree. I tend to get my political comments downvoted a lot because I keep saying silly things like “capitalism and communism are both utopias that break due to human greed” or “anarchism won’t solve the issue of people like Trump grabbing power”.

Lots of weird people loving the power of magical words around here.

Your comment is like one of those “I love apples” and someone responding “SO YOU HATE BANANAS”

Most people who look to extreme solutions tend to be hyperfocused on their immediate surroundings without paying attention to the fact that alternative solutions or states exist.

For instance - the US or UK law and law enforcement systems are faulty (to put it extremely mildly), sure… But that doesn’t mean we need to throw the baby out with the bathwater, it means we should look to, and take inspiration from, more positive examples. Countries such as Norway, Finland, Switzerland have judicial systems and law enforcement systems that people can (mostly) count on, and trust them.

Anarchism is probably the most naive of all the available systems. It’s like it’s been designed by someone who’s never met any other human being outside of a very small, and very tight friends circle.

You have it backwards. We didn’t invent civilisation and then the ruling class decided to oppress the working class by inventing laws. We had an honour system, but because people are greedy cunts, we had to gradually replace it with a law system. And because people are greedy cunts, many of them being plain evil, we had to add an enforcement system (which used to be angry mobs).

Like, what do you think religions are? These are early, pre-“formal law” attempts at ensuring people behave according to rules, allowing for the growth of the community.

Think about it - you’re complaining that the enforcement of law is not equal for everybody, meaning that some individuals are effectively exempt from being affected by law, and you know that the 1% on the top are practically all in that group, you can clearly see how this 1% is fucking over the entire world… all of which you conclude by saying “there should be no laws for nobody”… Make it make sense.

EDIT - fuck it, I’ll watch the video and comment on it here through edits.

4:03 - “prisons are for holding people”

This approach is so hilariously US-centric that it puts the entire premise to question. Yes, the US considers it “job done” when they send someone to prison, because US is a failed state that prioritises profit over prosperity. Prisons are private, meaning “more incarcerated == more money”. But first world countries like Norway or Switzerland prioritise rehabilitation and reintegration to society.

USA has a 75% recidivism (2 year reconviction) rate, which is insane. Compare that to Norway (20%), Sweden (25%), Denmark (27%), Finland (30%), Germany (33%), or Iceland (35%), and you see that it’s not the system that’s at fault, it’s just the insanity of USA.

4:40 - “police are bad and ineffective, m’kay”

Same as above - a third world country guy complaining that the system doesn’t work. Well, it works in first world countries.

The World Internal Security and Police Index (WISPI), which evaluates police capacity, process, legitimacy, and outcomes across 125 countries, gives you a pretty good context:

5:11 - “prisons are for torture and abuse”

Again, projecting the state of USA on the rest of the world.

5:40 - “Crime is a product of hierarchical social relations…”

“… specifically a legal order with the authority to categorise actions as either ‘legal’ or ‘illegal’”

Holy shit, “solving the problem of crime by missing the point”, I’m absolutely dumbfounded that someone unironically said these words with the intent of making a legitimate point…

The proposed solution is equally childish. “We believe that laws are not necessary because if everybody believes in anarchism and adhering to social norms, laws will not be necessary”.

7:20 - the Ludovic Nkoth quote

Yeah, if we completely forget the entirety of human history (or are ignorant to it), that quote slaps.

Again: laws were created as the response to the lack of general social concern with the avoidance of harm. Or, well, not “general”, but prominent enough that having a group of people that protects the weaker from harm, and then codifying what actions are permitted or not became a necessity.

7:30 - mediation as conflict resolution

Look at what’s currently going on with Venezuela, Greenland, Palestine, and Ukraine. Do you think that mediation was not attempted here? Do you think that laws caused these?

7:50 - transformative justice

And how will you protect the victim without a security force?

How will you protect the community without a fighting force?

How will you work with the “harmful actor” if the harmful actor is Putin or Trump?

Around 8:40 - socialism as the solution to most forms of crime

Sure, I agree. But you literally cannot create socialism without a state, because, if nothing else, you need logistics to transport goods between communities. Without a state there will never be the finances for that. It’s another thing that anarchists completely forget about - taxes keep your roads and pavements in workable order. No state == no taxes == civil infrastructure goes to shit == fragmentation of communities.

9:28 - food safety standards?

Regulations?? In my anarchism??

How do you create (and enforce) regulations without state?

11:30 - the state cannot protect us from bad people

This is probably one of the most ridiculous statements in the history of mankind.

“Law enforcement in the US sucks, capitalism breeds greed, and people at the top tend to commit crimes with impunity due to the accumulated power, therefore state is completely powerless against bad people”

Like… Fuck me, even in a third world country such as US, locking a rapist behind bars protects women from him.

11:50 - “policing attracts rot”

Again, “things are bad in the US therefore things must be equally bad planet-wide”. Absolutely childish approach.

16:40 - game theory and radical solidarity

Once more - how do you retaliate to harm against self or others if there’s no state to support you? Let’s say you’re an academic (ignoring, for a moment, the fact that academy wouldn’t exist without state). Your friends are, therefore, academics. Not the most athletic people, right? You are robbed by a group of violent thugs.

How do you or your social circle handle that, exactly?

17:05 - “I believe we can expect…”

Yeah, that’s an excellent basis for introducing anarchy. Belief and expectation. Absolutely bullet-proof methodology here.

17:21 - Retaliatory strategies -> consequences

Yeah, there’s no retaliation or consequences without enforcement, there’s no enforcement without state. Or rather: there’s no equal enforcement. The thugs from the previous example will have zero issues retaliating and bringing consequences for bad actions taken against them. Academics though? They’re just perpetual victims.

18:18 - social boycott

Jesus Christ, is this guy twelve? Go on and social boycott the Proud Boys, or the Ku-Klux Klan, see how well that works.

The rest seems to be just rehashing these points.

So, yeah, it’s a prime example of a person who is ignorant (missing a lot of context) and hyperfocused on the issues in his immediate surroundings lashing out in an extreme way against these issues, completely ignoring (or just not being aware) that their situation is not universal.

Wait… Do you think that “any law system” is essentially evil and only anarchism will save us…?

They weren’t created out of the blue. They’re the connection of two other federal agencies - naturalisation and customs service.

As you noticed, they were created at the time of Patriot Act, meaning they’ve been around for 25 years now. There weren’t any issues with them during Bush or Obama, were there? Or rather: there weren’t any more issues with them than there were with Border Patrol or ex-Customs Services, etc.

Basically, issues pop up whenever Trump’s in power. Because he has stupid policies. Like when Border Patrol was supposed to hire 60,000 agents within a couple of months to “strengthen border protection and stop smuggling from Mexico”. Lo and behold, they ended up hiring active cartel members and smuggling stats went through the roof. Which anybody with a semblance of a functioning brain expected to happen.

Now it’s the same exact situation - ICE received the order to kick out 1,000,000 “illegal immigrants” in 2025. For context on how ridiculous this number is: deportations increased steadily during Biden admin, reaching 72,000 in FY 2022 and 143,000 in FY 2023. FY 2024 saw the highest single-year total with 271,484 deportations.

And now Trump wanted 1 million. Which meant, just as before with Border Patrol, that they had to basically hire anyone who wasn’t running away from their recruiters fast enough. And exactly the same thing as before happened, only this time it’s US not Mexican criminals being hired. All the Proud Boys and what not.

The existence of the formation is fine, every country on the planet has an equivalent agency, it’s Trump’s policy that’s fucking everything up - as is tradition.

You do realise that ICE wasn’t all fascists from the get go, right? That they actually served a lawful purpose? Which is why financing them wasn’t a problem?

There are far too many cases of the law being selective in who it protects and who it punishes

No. *There are too many cases where the interpretation of law is selective", and/or “there are too many cases where the enforcement of law is being selective”. There are no laws (that I know of, correct me if I’m wrong) that say “if you’re rich, this doesn’t apply to you”, or something like that.

I think it’s functioning exactly as its corrupt creators intended.

And this is where we disagree. Because, to me, thinking that every single lawmaker in the history of humanity (we have laws that date back thousands of years and are just copy-pasted between countries) was writing laws with malicious intent is some form of paranoidal insanity on par with “lizard people are controlling the government”.