Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On 1/5/25 7:19 AM, D wrote:

  On Sun, 5 Jan 2025, rbowman wrote:
 

On Sat, 4 Jan 2025 12:35:14 +0100, D wrote:
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This is very beautiful! I should get an NRA hat as well to give myself
an option for when the MAGA hat is not quite right.

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Join and you get trinkets. I've got a couple of the hats, proudly made in
China by 11 year old slaves. I've very mixed feelings about the NRA and
have dropped my membership a couple of times. I was overjoyed when that
greasy bastard LaPierre got booted. However it does support legislation to
preserve rights.

 Just the fact that a swedish socialist might give me the evil eye is enough for me to get an NRA hat! ;)

   Heh, heh ... I understand  :-)
   It IS a 'civil-rights organization'.
   Alas, even post-LaPierre (a real shit), that
   hat and membership card may be too politically
   dangerous at this point. Ain't gonna be MAGA
   forever (GOP thinks it has four years to coast)
   and soon enough the ultra-left will regain power.
   Being NRA means you're an Enemy Of The People,
   a terrorist, a 'threat to democracy', a maniac.
   They'll push that and then send midnight raiders
   to your house to 'save America' the way Vlad
   disappears 'dissidents'.
   NRA offers some perks - but not a squad of high-
   powered lawyers to deal with and un-do this kind
   of political bullshit this side of 20 years.
   SO ... I'd suggest 'off book' donations - an
   anonymous money order or such to the org. May
   need a new org with a neutral name.
   A return to a more sensible/tolerant America ?
   No longer sure that's possible. We've kinda
   drifted into the 3rd-world mentality of
   dictators, czars, warlords, presidents-
   for life and ayatollah-substututes. Hard to
   come back from that. Not everything lost can
   be regained.
   It'd take a real, prolonged, space-alien
   invasion. Don't think the Jersey Drones
   are gonna do it.