Which is heavily influenced by words (propaganda of any kind, media, etc). Moreso these days, where most people know nothing about how things work…

Well, the public knows about those issues because Maduro talks about them all the time. Why wouldn’t they vote for him if they know it?

I don’t think even 5% of Venezuela’s economic issues derive from Maduro’s government. Not that I like him particularly. We severely underestimate -or pretty much ignore- the actual implications of being subjected to the sanctions and isolation Venezuela has been. And the huge social fracture derived primarily from the middle to upper class being annoyed at having to redistribute wealth for decades ain’t helping. I know this first-hand and the insolidarity, entitlement and neoliberal kool-aid drinking from that part of Venezuelan society is a fucking bleak reality.

María Cochina Machado

I recommend this one too

There are others worth checking out but I went with Nobara, it’s been the easiest distro to switch to for gaming on my main PC. It’s developed by the same guy who develops Proton (the compatibility layer that Steam uses to be able to play Windows games on Linux) so I trust his work. Lots of tools and configs out-of-the-box. Very beginner friendly and nice looking too.

Yeah I’d recommend Magic Earth as well, I use it practically every day. I tried many other apps and it’s annoying that this one isn’t FOSS but I needed something that actually works

Are you a dog

Switch to peertube mate

She’s pathetic.

I love the ‘piss on carpet’ end statement

Cryptpad for a Drive/Online Office Suite replacement, it’s fantastic

Oh dang. That’s true.

I don’t like their default launcher either, it’s indeed very iphon-y. I just installed another launcher and that’s it. It’s essentially Android so that’s no problem. I also disabled microg entirely, which is possible.

It’s gonna make for colourful toilet paper for Google, but interesting nonetheless.

Murena does ship them to the USA, but with /e/OS preinstalled, which is great if you’re into privacy and degoogling. I don’t know how it works with US carriers though. Feel free to ask them on their forum, community.e.foundation

Impeccable

Never sell land. Use it!

It’s not that simple. I’m from Spain and the case with our own far-right party is different. They’ve lost momentum gradually, through multiple figureheads leaving or being kicked out, with the main guy still standing, but the scandals and the lack of actual policies proposed have definitely hurt them. The problem is that those who vote for them are exactly the ones who used to vote for the traditionally ‘moderate’ conservative party. Same as in France. So it’s just a constant voter dance between the two parties. The actual number of right-wing voters hasn’t changed much.

One can only hope that disenfranchisement as you call it (I call it chronic planned distraction) will eventually lead to some form of working-class rebellion, as it tends to happen historically.

But this will definitely hurt the European far-right. Le Pen was one of their main bastions and believe it or not, those types are not so easily replaceable. People lose interest quickly and they’ll tire of the ‘this was all a politically motivated complot’ rhetoric. I’ve seen the same happen in my country. In fact, the right lost the last general election because they were so sure they were going to win, their campaign sucked.

I still think this is good news though. Should help the far-right lose momentum. But then again it’s getting harder all the time to distinguish them from the ‘moderate’ right.