Exactly. Arch on my laptops and desktop, Debian on my server.

This is the way.

What if I run both Arch and Debian?

Race is a social construct. We are all just variants of the same species.

Ethnicity is a thing. Race is not.

Or feeding the homeless and housing the hungry.

What I DON’T want my tax money going to is rich people and corporations why don’t fucking need it.

Well thank goodness we bombed all of those innocent civilians to teach them a lesson!

…and?

Their country. Their rules.

Iran COULD do any number of things. Sure, let’s invent more stuff they COULD do to justify murdering them.

I seem to remember seeing other stories like this about Jan 6 rioters and child porn. WTF is wrong with people?

So that’s 36 House Republicans attached to Epstein. How many Democrats are suddenly leaving office?

Seriously, at this point can we just start the fuck over? Can’t we just kick them ALL out?

Israel can fuck right off.

Fuck Netanyahu in the ass with a 2x4.

The Israeli government has become the 21st century equivalent of the Nazi party.

Fuck Israel.

Well, shit. There goes the neighborhood.

The more we participate in it, the more slop they create.

This is a NO from me.

PLEASE! Please rapture all of these smarmy self-righteous know-it-all assholes off of the planet so the rest of us can get on with our lives in peace!

My server is Debian. My desktop and laptops are all Garuda Linux.

Pete Hegseth is a fucking war criminal and he fucking better be prosecuted for this.

I have a problem with being touched by random people while in large crowds, but I avoid the problem altogether by avoiding large crowds, not by being homophobic.

Not advocating violence, but shit like this is going to lead to violence.

I agree with your points. The scheme will fail because politicians will use it to punish groups of people they don’t like. I said in the beginning that I don’t know what the solution is, but somewhere along the way, we threw out our values of community, service, thrift, education, and fairness (among others) for “I got mine, fuck you.”

Citizenship doesn’t guarantee me equal protection under the law. It doesn’t guarantee me fair treatment, freedom from racism, bigotry, harassment, or currently keep me from being murdered or forcibly deported by my own government. It doesn’t guarantee me an education and it doesn’t get me food, clothing, shelter, or healthcare.

But if there are some brown people that my government wants to bomb, or some tax breaks they want to give to some billionaires, you can bet they will happily use my citizen tax dollars to do it.

You have to earn it in other countries, plus people coming to the US have to earn it as well.

We talk a lot about our freedoms and liberties in the US, but we don’t talk much about civic and personal responsibility to our neighbors, communities, and country. We look down on poor people and people unable to participate in the economy. We give away all of our power as citizens to people who exploit us.

We don’t participate in our own government.

I think citizenship and all it entails should be taught in schools, and once you’re nearly an adult, you take the exam and then you get your certificate or whatever, just like anything else.

I’m not saying that you wouldn’t have any rights until then - I’m viewing it more like an educational degree - but you would know a LOT more about how your government is supposed to work and what your actual rights and responsibilities are. I see it as empowering, not exclusionary.

I’m not entirely sure. I feel like citizenship and social responsibility were things that were talked about in elementary school once or twice and then never spoken of again. Civics class was forgettable.

We push the idea of individual liberty to the point where I feel it’s detrimental to the goals of living together in a community and society.

I don’t know what the solution would be, but EARNING your citizenship sounds like it would mean more to people instead of it being granted automatically.