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  • I use it because 22 years ago it was more appealing than redhat or Mandrake. It forced me to learn more about Linux because I had to resolve almost everything myself than any other distro. I was using before it had a package manager and honestly after the dependency hell of rpms in 2000s it just seemed more problematic to use one that resolved dependencies than not. Usually I used to and sometimes still use it for a nice base to compile everything on. I dunno. It’s my Linux equivalent to my first car that I loved.










  • Are they shitty human beings? Sure. Despicable, corrupt, hypocritical and damaging human beings. Absolutely they are, but they’re still people. They might try to dehumanize democrats and liberals and I push back at that point as well. I don’t believe dehumanizing anyone, regardless of whatever they have done. People are capable of a wide set of behaviors and that has to be reconciled. Anyone is capable of becoming a monster, and throughout history anytime you start to dehumanize a group, you open the door for everyday people to become monsters. For me personally, I can’t claim to be morally or ethically superior to these terrible people if I’m not better than they are, by not painting them as subhuman.

    Most of the population is moderate and so painting this massive group as things that shouldn’t be is dangerous. It’s never worked out for anyone well when that basic, knee jerk reaction happens.