Darorad

Yeah, starmer kicked him out for not being centrist enough, which is why he ran independent (and beat the labour candidate)

Secret service makes that pretty hard

Yeah, Fascism isn't great at surviving long term, the problem is how much damage it can do while it is in control.

They value the in group more than being correct, so it's really hard for them to pass between leaders. Not to say it's impossible, but historically it hasn't worked well.

We'll be lucky if it's just 4 years now

Yeah, but the president has pardon power over the dc courts.

https://www.justice.gov/pardon/apply-pardon

I mean yeah, but as long as they do it in dc, is there anything they could really do?

Yeah, but he can just pardon them.

It's absolute immunity for "core constitutional acts" and presumed immunity for every other official act.

The ruling also said trump can appeal rulings on if specific acts receive immunity, so they can overturn a ruling they don't like.

For legal reasons my answer is no.

Oh yeah, they're free to decide, I just disagree with them! I get the decision though, and if I were on charge of a large distro, I'd probably make the same choice (until plasma is on a normal release cycle)

Yeah, like I'm all in favor of having an opinionated design, but their dominance makes their bad decisions actively harm every other de. Stuff like refusing to compromise on cross-desktop protocols

Their whole attitude towards development is similar, down to not working with other dekstops and insisting on doing things the way that works best for them regardless if it's worse for the linux ecosystem overall.