Fair enough I see your point

I disagree boycotts are absolutely effective. Montgomery bus boycott. Even the starbucks boycott going on right now. If you hurt a companys source of income they tend to act pretty quickly.and it doesnt just apply to consumerism it applys to celebrities and politicians through cancelling and or not voting.

I dont know is the problem. For example I’m boycotting Nestle and i have been for years at this point. They’re the worst they dont think water is a human right etc. I tell everyone about it it when it comes up. But at the end of the day i dont think its doing anything to Nestle.

I support protesting however you can i guess, but I’m also very pessimistic about odds of success

I think that in large part direct action has become less effective as corporations have learned how to deal with them. And the way they deal with them is by ignoring the problem until people forget about it.

But thats the thing, are strikes even effective anymore? I haven’t seen one that succeeded in the way that the ones described in the 30s did.

The revolution won’t be televised. Direct action is largely toothless. Iirc somebody lit themselves on fire to protest climate change and it was barely reported on. But somebody puts paint on the Stonehenge or even mildly inconveniences the public and it draws attention via outrage for a while. Literally all a protest is trying to do is draw attention to an issue. And this is one of the only methods I’ve seen that still works. Srsly why bother with direct action when it won’t achieve anything

Yeah unfortunately root access is a requirement

Mine works fine but i might just be lucky. The phone is still based in android. I havent had issues with anything other android devices can do

Check out LineageOs. The point of the phone os is to allow you to keep using your phone for as long as you want. Bit of a pain to initally setup though

Iirc manjaros problem is that its half arch in that it does staggered updates which doesnt mesh well with aur.

EndeavourOS handles the install so you dont have go through a complicated install just like manjaro does. But from there you basically have a barebones arch install with no staggered updates or anything. So all the kde packages should be up to date there too.

I did try manjaro forst and ditched it but i dont remember why.

I do use gnome though so take this with a grain of salt.

I can say I’ve never had a stability issue with arch though.

Distro hopping gets addictive and honestly if you’re happy with where you are i wouldnt recommend you switch anything.

Buuuuut if you’re going to do it anyways EndeavourOS. Its arch for begginers you can branch out to more complex things if you want but the install is painless and works out the box. Arch is in general VERY customizable but its a double edged sword so having guardrails during the setup is helpful.

Imo not everything is for everybody and thats ok.

If marvel movies arent your thing just dont watch them, theres too much good media out there for this to be a problem.

And i think trends are moving away from the marvel style movies anyways. Has there even been one in theatres this year? That studio that made everything everywhere all at once has been putting out great stuff.

Have you tried Arcane? Its a video game adaptation executed extremely well.

Pls dont I like it here

This actually highlights my issue with it. Both this and racism feel the same to me. Even though I aknowledge that they clearly aren’t.

End of the day I’m still being judged for something i didn’t do and wouldn’t ever do. And that sucks.

But seriously fuck my feelings, do what you have to to stay safe

Plumbing. I could live without almost every modern comfort but a flushable toilet

EndeavourOs makes it super simple too

God I hate whataboutism. Because no really what about it? Why are you comfortable taking such blatantly hypocrytical stances arrrrg. It just seems like a way to ignore valid critiques

Thanks for the detailed comments. Is this the kind of thing you talk about at hexbear? I’d call myself a skeptic but I love the topic

Thank you I’ve gotten so many quality responses to this question and alot to think about.

Thanks for providing such detailed responses. I think my biggest problem with marxist ideologies is that I don’t know an example of them working outside of theory. It seems to me like greed is a natural part of human nature and capitalism generally feeds into that nature as terrible as that is. Its not sustainable in the long term, but that also tends to be when revolutions happen to redistribute the wealth