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If we're talking about actions that fucked up the world, pretty much all of western Europe should still be bearing that cross. On the other hand, we could just acknowledge it's probably pretty low IQ and bigoted to take out your impotent rage at a state on regular people who have very little if anything to do with it.

That said, it doesn't really matter that much, because as the other guy said, outside of the Internet most real people don't actually care that much. Probably because they managed to realize the above.

Hungary. We order our groceries online and the app lets you tip right as you order. For prepared hot food, we often don't order through one of the major services... we in fact try to order direct from the restaurant whenever we can so they don't lose on a commission to a service we really don't need, and in this case we always tip the delivery person. In restaurants, at a minimum you're pretty much expected to at least round the bill up the nearest 1k forint for a nice sit-down meal, more is common. Some places have mandatory service charge similar to what some places in the US do. Again, we aren't talking the expected 15-20% of the US, but tipping is certainly expected for some services here. Cabs, barbers, lots of services.

The bigger point to me is that Europeans, rightly, get upset when American tourists refuse to comply with cultural norms they don't agree with... it's just as pig headed when European tourists to the US refuse to do the same in my opinion. It's being a bad guest.

We all pay for it anyway via the negative impacts. It should be the consumers buying the thing that pay for it. Why should society at large be paying for the negative impacts of a product not everyone is buying? Makes no sense. If your product is causing a big environmental impact, that needs to be paid for by the company making the product and the consumers buying it.

Definitely agree with that. I'd say he's near the edge of politicians currently in an actual elected position in the US, but that's about as far as it goes. Even in the US, there have been politicians further left in power historically. Absolutely no pipe dream.

Way too many people in here speaking for "Europe". I live in Europe as well, and here tipping at a restaurant or a delivery driver is 100% expected. It isn't usually as much as the US, but tipping exists here as well.

Also, when in Rome... plenty of people here get upset at Americans for not following cultural norms, seems fair to get upset at people visiting America for not doing the same.

I dunno, I switched my 7 year olds laptop over specifically because Windows updates kept breaking things. Everything worked out of the box with Linux and hasn't broken yet. He doesn't care either way, he just wants to use his programs, and that's been easier since switching. I say this as someone who very painfully had to use Linux for a few years about 10 years ago... the experience is just very different today. I don't think a day to day user will notice any difference beyond better stability.

My experience is that once set up, the easy linux distros are way less likely to randomly stop working and need support. And by set up, I pretty much mean "install the OS and grab Steam".

I think it's more like people still hold onto a view of the difficulty that hasn't been true for years now in the big ones (Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, etc). I agreed with this position 10 years ago, but not anymore. Users that aren't super technical are likely just browsing, watching video, and playing games. All that works out of the box now with nearly no set up in my experience. My 7 year old has been using it with less problems than he was getting in Windows 11 (seriously).

I had to spend the better part of a day fiddling with the USB stick, but honestly once the actual install was done I was pretty much running out of the box. My 7 year old uses it. Steam is even an easy native install now. There's just not much to set up anymore if you're just doing games/video/browsing. I spent another day doing some fancy stuff UI setup for fun, but it was working right away. A far cry from the days of messing with alsa or the tears behind getting wifi set up, let me tell ya! Was really surprised as someone who had been away from Linux distros for nearly 10 years.

Well yes, but that's my point, this trend has been global since the 80's with Reagan and Thatcher. Continental Europe held out longer, but even here it pretty much rules the day. A lot of Americans have a very, very misinformed view of what politics here look like thinking it much more to the left, and that just hasn't been the case for arguably a few decades. There's a few issues we're even to the right of Americans on. Sure, there are some holdouts, but not many that have impacted politics much in recent history.

So I'd repeat my follow up question: aren't there quite a few peoples who could claim ongoing discrimination as a justification for founding an ethnostate? Should the Roma in Europe be given an ethnostate? Why do you only extend this to Israel? The Roma face far more open discrimination in Europe today, measurably. Should Europe hand them land that doesn't belong to Europe in India because that's their ancient ancestral homeland?

Heck, look at the anti-Islamic rhetoric and attacks that have happened post 9/11... doesn't this, using your reasoning, justify the existence of an Islamic State?

I don't think you can fight racism with more racism, and ethnostates by definition require some degree of racism. All you do is encourage more racism, and I think quite clearly this pans out as the rise in antisemitic views has directly coincided with the actions of Israel. Or you'll have to walk me through how they don't... if ethnicity is an institutional dividing line within a state, you necessarily have to engage in racism to uphold it.

(Also not sure what you're referencing in the Night of Long Knives... I really hope this isn't an oblique National Socialists are socialists reference, because that would be pretty ridiculous. Even the Strassers, while you can certainly argue had some socialist ideas informing them, were not really traditional socialists. National Socialism was a distinct movement from socialism, and the latter never really aligned themselves with fascists, they were actively bleeding fighting them).

I do agree that DSA, as a whole, aren't generally socialists, but I also think it's a little disingenuous to say they're they same as the Hilary cadre which is more what you went on the describe. They're certainly to the left of them. If the entire Democratic party was aligned with DSA vs the more staunch neoliberals in the mainstream, what a wonderful problem we'd be faced with compared to where we are now...

Fair point.