KillSlaveOwners [they/them]
I do think your points are valid, though I think part of the reason for Americans mostly viewing everything in American context comes down to the size of the U.S. The country is so big and there is even a bit of diversity of culture in different regions. Each U.S. state was (debatablely) originally meant to act as its own nation, with the federal government being something more akin to the EU.
The analogy isn’t perfect, but what I am getting to something here. Though I have never been to Europe, I do understand that there is a larger breadth of culture, largely a product of much more long standing civilization and history, most of which developed centuries ago when long distance travel was less easy. In the modern era, it is more common to travel in between countries and even speak multiple languages, making it much more obvious how diverse the cultures of the world can be.
Coming back to America, it is a settler colonial nation that is much younger in scope, so the culture is a bit more hegemonic but far larger in scope. All that is to say, an American who lives in New York could travel to Florida (roughly 1100 miles), and the culture would be a bit different, but no where’s near the equivalent travel of, say, a trip from Poland to Italy.
Again, I want to be clear, this is not a defense, just an explanation of part of the reason you see such American centric discussion. For many Americans, even if they have traveled, they very well may have largely only ever experienced the greater American sphere of culture.
His music is properly just folk/ballads but I only bring it up because it matches every other criteria and you might be surprised how much you like him is David Rovics. I’d recommend starting with something like “Who Would Jesus Bomb”
If you like hardcore punk, “Stray From The Path” is also great. Some of their more political songs being “Goodnight Alt Right” and “Guillotine”.
To be fair with Pat the Bunny, I think some of his earlier work glorified substance abuse a little. Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains specifically teetered the line between “it’s messed up that I’m an addict” and “I’m gonna get high in this parking lot”. That said, as a whole, his bands really mark his stages of recovery in a way that is very interesting.
I recently introduced my otherwise cool libertarian coworker to Mischief Brew (The vocalist’s band following The Orphans) and am hoping it speaks to him.
Oh sick! I’ll look into this more. I see you mentioned Plan9 in your bio. That is one level of Unix I haven’t dabbled in yet, have you messed around with 9front? I’ve always been intrigued at their commitment to maintaining an authentic Plan9 experience while adding support for modern hardware.
To my fellow nerds, does anyone know what the gui is? It definitely looks like an old school window manager. I’ve played around with the standard Xorg one that no one uses outside of a pure openBSD install as well as fvwm but I don’t think it’s quite either of them.
Not the point, but the Socialist Republic of Chattanooga continues to amass its power.
The biggest out of the box difference on desktop is that openBSD has a working X system and session manager out of the box. It’s a very bare bones ones, but it is there. Freebsd is a fully functional CLI system post install. Setting up a GUI is simple, just not pre-installed.
