I've been thinking a lot of about this and my educated guess would be - rising distrust with current institutions and/or bad experience with societal failures.
If you look through history of .ml posters they are mostly in western europe or US and there's always a specific grievance they have like the current societal system did them dirty. Most normal people just realize that all systems are imperfect and sometimes you take an L and continue but there's this trend of sore losers extremists in both far right and far tankie left that just have full identity capture and radicalization because of a one or few conflicts.
I almost fell into these pits myself several times because being owned by a system that doesn't give you sufficient tooling or voice to feedback on does feel really terrible. Especially these days when burying issues is so easy under automation, culture of indifference and political unseriousness.
However, imo most of these are just weak people and I don't necessarily say this as an attack but all societies have weak links that can turn to extremism but that just means we should do a better job correcting for this.
You could but you could also train real world practice. Example of this I really like is Japans school cleaning structures where kids learn and practice cleaning and taking care of their surroundings - because we all will need environment maintenance skills forever (or until personal robots).
I know it's not a exact comparison but developing crucial skills and more importantly practicing them is what peak education looks like.
For phone example this would be developing and enforcing phone culture so it caries on out of school. Kids can ignore a single class but a culture shaped within the school will stay with them forever.
Hot take but phone ban is schools is bad. We ought to teach kids how to use the phones properly as clearly personal computers are never going away and are fundamental part of our existence.
I know it's hard, I know that teachers will struggle but it's clearly an important investment as we're never going back to a pre personal computer world. It might change shape from a phone to a watch or something but it's never going away.
I'm not an american, but it seems like the only way americans will be represented by their government is if they out the 2 party system.
There's this vibe of self-destruction in american society that is rooted in the 2 party system: one party is your mortal enemy and another doesn't quite represent you - so everyone just low key feels like destroying the whole thing rather than working on making it better.
The problem with China is all of the fundamental lies that conflict each other. It's communist but also the most capitalist, it's free and citizen focused but also you have to sacrifice all of your rights and no complaining, it's unified but also you can't leave your province.
It's a generic authoritarian playbook that somehow tricked a bunch of people with red flags and prettu uniforms as if it's something more than that.
For me the litmus test is always freedom of information. No country is "for the people" while keeping people purposefully in the dark. Either it's a lie or extreme incompetence - neither should be taken as anything other but that.
It started as pure propaganda but got adopted by all of the basement dwellers living of social support in the west who turned China's propaganda into a lifestyle (aka tankies)
Same China that has 17% youth unemployment rate and says that the "lying flat" trend is "western propaganda". Same China that is notorious for 996 where people work from 9am to 9pm 6 days per week?
You know you can be critical of Chinese policy and propaganda without hating China or liking the US. Use your brain dude, stop being a sheep.
Yeah I know and KDE ans Gnome both have settings for this but as I used to setup a lot of machines it was always frustrating that the default is uppercase and some idiots don't actually read the XDG preferences and have default uppercase directories hard coded
You can't be serious? Lmao I don't even know how to reply to this level of ignorance
Maybe start here https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Genocides_in_history_%28World_War_I_through_World_War_II%29#Russia_and_the_Soviet_Union