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  • They are deporting people because their job doesn’t pay them enough?

    Yes.

    Edit: Not only that. But when the state is the employer! (In a broader sense, at least, eldercare is regionally organized, not nationally)

    So since Sweden is part of EU and Schengen, it cannot deport EU citizens on this basis. So they tried to import EU citizens instead to fill the gap (who did not speak Swedish like the people they deported).

    It is the apparent inconsistency of the salaries being too low and too high at the same time which reveals what their intention is: racism. Do they think the salaries are too low? No, because then they would approach the public sector unions and say “we fucked up, here is your money”. It is only too low for some people. For some people, it does not matter if they speak the language, have a job, or whatever. Some people just need to go.


  • That does not matter to them. The far-right are completely unfazed by inconsistencies like that. In Sweden they started deporting immigrants – well integrated, working immigrants – because they had too low salaries. What was the limit? Higher than the collective bargained lowest salaries agreed on by the state and the union. Did the state raise the salaries then, because they just admitted they are too low to fucking live here? No. “Stay poor” is the message they want to give to citizens, and “go die” to immigrants.















  • Your control over the system is so great in Gentoo. While other distros may pull in a dependency you will never use – say like cups – gentoo allows you to remove the dependency by removing support for it at install/compile time.

    I love how the portage packages are maintained, it is so easy to find which versions are available, select version, read about why a package is masked and having all the tools for overriding that decision by the package maintainers and install anyway. They inform you about important updates and migrations when you sync your package repository. It is also super easy to patch the code being installed.

    I would not say portage is complicated. For most operations you just install a package, sync, and upgrade like you would in any distro. It tales time to do this, sure. What is complicated is, I would say, figuring out how to boot your machine. You want encrypted this or that, dropbear, systemd or openrc, want to manage your initramfs with dracut or make one yourself, distro-kernel or another flavour, and on and on. I also think that the wiki is not very detailed on a lot of what the different systems do and how they talk to each other.

    Anyway, I love it. If I would start with Gentoo today, I would install a Gentoo Prefix

    https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Prefix

    There you can get used to the portage package manager withour messing up your system and without doing a reinstall.