Okay buddy

From your own link, Fedora:

…is now the upstream source for CentOS Stream and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

So yes, I’m pretty sure.

Red Hat is based on Fedora, not the other way around.

Things are not nearly as bad right for nearly as many people as they could and would be during a rebellion. If there really is no hope for a better future, then maintaining this shit system “might be the best you can actually accomplish”. But I don’t believe that. A better world is possible and we or our descendants will deliver it.

Rebellion without a vision for the future is a recipe for unmitigated suffering.

no utopic visions to be upheld

Well what’s the point then if there’s no striving for a good alternative?

Oh, that’s a pretty cool feature.

That looks like a webserver, not a file.

They want to be able to open an HTML file without spinning up a webserver first.

I wouldn’t bank on it. People seem to be using their brains less and less every year.

Who wears a watch on their penis?

What makes it a personal pizza is that it is eaten by a single person in a single sitting.

The one pictured is an American sized personal pizza.

a personal pizza

My fellow American

Literally, it is not.

I was unaware of the technical definition. Point conceded.

That you think North Korea is a positive example in this situation is fucking telling.

What does it tell you, exactly? I didn’t praise North Korea. I used them as an example of a country the US would love to wipe out but can’t easily because they have leverage, including nuclear weapons.

And as for Iraq and Libya, both countries had been pursing nuclear weapons. Libya gave up their program. Iraq attacked Kuwait before finishing theirs. It didn’t turn out well for either of them.

Regardless, my point this whole time has been that the US doesn’t need to be involved in every place in the world. To the extent that some of these places are threats to its people, that’s because we have been antagonizing them for decades.

And to the extent that some of these places lack freedom and democracy, we should try getting those concepts right in our own country before exporting them.

But you and I both know that’s not why the US does what it does. Its all about hegemony and ensuring Western capital’s unhindered access to markets.

EDIT: Removed some unnecessary snark

So a country going from 50 nukes to 100 isn’t proliferation?

Putting key words in bold in your comment doesn’t prove your point.

Anyway, recent history tells anyone who’s paying attention that if the US has you on their shit list, te last thing you should do is give up your weapons programs. Contrast Iraq and Libya with North Korea, for instance.

The US is not a force for peace or progress, regardless of who is in charge here. Dems are better than Reps at masking our Imperial ambitions, but either way we make things worse. We should stop meddling in foreign affairs and fix our problems at home.

The US had an agreement with Iran that was working. Trump 1.0 unilaterally pulled out of it. Biden then put ridiculous conditions on Iran to reinstate it. I’d argue that the US has lost all legitimacy in negotiations with Iran.

If the US really cared about nuclear proliferation, it would start by reducing its own nuclear arsenal. It would pressure Israel to denuclearize. It would deescalate with China so they’d have less incentive to increase their nuclear stockpile.

Anyway, saying inaction is a course of action is rhetorical nonsense. There are an infinite number of things that any person or entity could choose to do. Not doing them isn’t an “action”. For example, I didn’t take an “action” last week by not getting cosmetic surgery, or by not going to Aruba, or by not becoming a real estate agent.

this wasn’t the only course of action available for the USA

This presumes the USA needed to take any action at all.

The average American citizen does not benefit from US hegemony. Neither do the citizens of the countries we “liberate”.

The US government clearly doesn’t care about freedom or human rights. Look at how it currently treats its own citizens. Look at how its treated marginalized people on its territory, including minority citizens, for its entire existence. Look at all its authoritarian allies. Heck, its favorite West Asian partner is an Apartheid state.

We Americans need to stop buying the propaganda we’ve been fed that we are somehow duty bound to be the world’s police force. That only serves the boogereaters bourgeoisie.

Frankly I didn’t realize how much of myself I was masking by trying to maintain relationships with people who have anti-civilizational worldviews. I thought I was being open minded and accepting, but I was actually just dimming my own light and giving their horrific beliefs legitimacy.

It feels liberating to have solid boundaries.

I also have “lost” “friends” because they couldn’t pull their heads out of their asses.

Many won’t. And that is understandable. But our only hope for the Star Trek future I’ve wanted since a kid is international solidarity among average people, regardless of what their stupid governments do.

You’re not responsible for being born on the same plot of land as a bunch of morons you don’t even know