Pretty porthole view of US geopolitics my dude. Peace isn't zero sum, someone always has to give up something, and people don't like to be made to feel like they've lost. I'd never want a homogeneous society either, too culturally bleak.
Gentoo and Debian. Debian will let you get back to what you really want to be doing whereas gentoo gives you excellent granularity over everything, but can be overwhelming and time consuming.
Really should ask yourself what you'll be mostly doing and pick a tool (distro) that let's you accomplish that.
All of this is just addressing tangential problems created by the fact that the federal government hasn't done anything about legalizing it. Cowardly move, but not unexpected.
As awful as it is, this should be a wake up call that systems need to be protected and security can't be an afterthought. Ev charging stations just be money trees for corporate groups to set and forget without consequences.
I don't feel bad at all for them. I will say that the political jab is absolutely trash tier though. What kind of mongoloid berates proponents of clean energy (rhetorical).
Reddit and twitters recent moves were the driving force behind me switching to mastadon and lemmy, but I ditched meta/Facebook services long ago. Adding those back into this fold really makes the choice for me kind of easy. Inviting meta to the party is just a non starter.
As long as it's moderated in a way that ensures it doesn't devolve into a bunch of thinly veiled or overt jabs at the usual groups I don't see why not. Do i have faith it will succeed? Not really
Struggling implies that they tried anything