Yeah, that’s the point, but if you’re as much of an adult as you seem to think you are, you should be grown up enough to push past a little backlash to a tonedeaf question. Maybe learn something from it? Idk

Edit about the video games: You get to do whatever you want when you’ve grown up. It’s cool, you’ll love it.

It honestly sounds like the kind of question people ask when they’re severely bored. When I get bored like that I play guitar or video games, so as not to say bubble-headed crap on the internet.

I meant to say internet. Tysm for correcting me. I’m truly grateful and humbly request that you take an unchaperoned bath with my teenage daughters.

True, but from my distro-hopping I learned there are quite a few Linux distros that throw tantrums when you try to install w/o wifi, and some ISOs that flat out don’t allow it. I’m not technically sharp enough to find the link, but this and most of my other problems with Linux went away when I stopped using distros built with systemd.

CachyOS is fast, sure. But have you tried Void? MX? Artix? PCLinuxOS? All very fast, and way fewer tantrums/stability issues. Systemd acts like a bureaucrat that checked out long ago, but keeps the job because of the benefits and does it as spitefully as possible. It’s about what I’d expect from a corp like Red Hat, and one day it’ll ask for your government ID to install.

The Linux community should get serious about systemd and how it talks to newcomers about it. It’s annoying now, and it’ll be a liability later.

My understanding is that MAGA is mostly the criminal element of white, upper middle class suburban US. The lumpen bourgeois, with some white senior citizen hanger-ons. Rednecks where I live are largely liberal or apolitical, and my friends in other states say about the same thing.

There’s this liberal myth about the majority of rednecks being virulent racists and MAGA diehards that needs to be put down like a dying dog. It’s perpetrated partly by shutins with little reference to society outside of what they see deliberately conveyed on screens.

While there are unhinged, bigoted rednecks who tend to speak loudly in public, they’re a despised minority who don’t even get invited to family events, in many cases. This can be seen in the suburban variant of MAGA too. It might not be your dad, but instead, your estranged uncle who’s divorced 7 times and can’t hold a job down, while he can’t be trusted not to make things weird at cookouts.

The “redneck = MAGA” trope is kept alive through bourgeois media, like when Taylor Swift depicted a bunch of farmish-looking people as militant homophobes in the video for ‘You Need To Calm Down’, or maybe on boring liberal late night TV.

A clearer picture indicates that MAGA is largely a movement drawing from minorities of the white upper and middle classes, situated in cities and suburbs. They’re mostly small business tyrants who aspire to be big business tyrants, but feel they’ve been held back by changing social attitudes and regulatory government.

The poster child for MAGA isn’t named Cledus, it’s Preston.