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I’m not sure how to link directly to a subsection of Wikipedia.

Mouse over the link to the subsection in the sidebar, right-click, copy link location.

Not sure if there is a way to link to a specific paragraph though. Since you seem to be new to Lemmy you may want to take a look at this for formatting your posts: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/02-media.html

And since it seems you already had a post deleted, there is a modlog. You can reach it from the sidebar of any instance or community. So if you go to [email protected] then click the modlog link in the sidebar, and scroll down a bit you will see the reason your post was removed. You can then appeal that action to either the mods of that Europe community or the admins of the feddit.org instance.

As you seem to be American and inclined to research, here are a few keywords you may want to look up: Operational Security, Signal Intelligence, End-to-end-encryption. Be advised that up/downvotes as well as a lot of other metadata is essentially public on Lemmy, because it is available to every instance (you can host one yourself if you want to). Your government may be blind on four eyes right now, but there is still one remaining.

Also don't get drawn in too deep into the reasons why any of these people do what they do. It's interesting to the point of being too good to be true, I'll admit that, but it is a distraction. Focus on organising yourself and the people around you. Good luck.

Tortoisegit is God awful, stuck in 1999.

If it works don't fix it. Not that it's my go-to.

you just indicated you enjoy reading man pages

I have indicated that I do it, not that I enjoy it. But yeah, I prefer it to skimming 20 verbose blog posts and outdated Stackoverflow questions to find one that is actually related to my specific use case. And often enough the search results will be online versions of the man pages anyway. Not quite sure why you are so hostile about it, I just said "read the docs" basically.

My account is too new to upload screenshots

Guessing you wanted to show something like this? Otherwise you might be able to post links at least, not sure what your instance does in terms of restrictions.

And yeah, it's interesting that Trumps territorial threats seem to pretty much match this "vision" so far, with the exception of Gaza I guess.

This isn’t exactly fascism, this is the first technocracy in the works.

Could still go either way I think. But good point, the Night of the Long Knives is certainly going to be interesting. I kind of see Trump as having the edge though, with large parts of the cult being loyal to him as a person.

A ton, like the ones integrated in many editors/IDEs, GitHub Desktop, the one with the little turtle icon, forgot its name... Using gitk all the time. Don't get me wrong I have nothing against a GUI, just saying I had a much better learning experience with git once I started using the CLI and man pages instead of a GUI and random tutorials for them. It's just a lot more accessible and better documented in my experience.

For many European languages and some non-European ones there is the CEFR, so you could look for an "A1" or "A2" level language course in whatever you want to learn. They aim to establish exactly this basic level of communication.

According to your opinion. But you are not in charge. He is. And he’s doing what people who voted him in, asked him to do.

Well of course it's just my opinion. I think it is pretty clear we disagree, no point arguing that. Just wanted to let you know my perspective, since that seems to be allowed here instead of being an echo chamber, which I respect. But you seem to be hell-bent on learning this lesson on a personal level, so no stopping you I guess. Kind regards from Germany.

Then you have nothing to worry about, right?

The thing that worries me is that Trump seems to be consistently acting against the best interest of US foreign policy.

Hasn’t happened yet.

Alea iacta est.

I don’t care about that. You all can fix your own shit. If you don’t like how we do something, then you all fucking do it.

You know what, if that is how you feel, fair enough actually. I just don't think that's how your former and current governments, including Trump, really feel about it.

I don’t think so.

You don't think losing the US dollar as the world reserve currency would hurt you economically? Because that's where this is going.

It has damaged your reputation as a country. It hasn't damaged you domestically (yet), which is why I advised looking at it from a foreign policy perspective.

And make no mistake, just giving up on global hegemony will hurt you domestically as well in the long run. Not that I'm opposed to it, on the contrary actually, it just strikes me as utterly misguided since it's done for selfish, and I think foolish, reasons.

The argument you are getting and setting here seems to be a domestic one primarily, but I think from a foreign policy perspective it becomes much clearer, especially given what this post is about.

US global hegemony after WWII rests on a several aspects, a few key ones of which are free trade with US dollar as the world reserve currency, a system of international alliances, and resulting from that the ability to have bases all over the world for immediate power projection anywhere.

Trump is practically giving all of that away for no discernable reason whatsoever. He basically just publicly announced to all of Americas allies that your word, like as a country, is worth nothing.

Feels like decades though...