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[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

IIRC Linus is self-declared as "woke". The exact quote is:

I'm a card-carrying atheist, I think a woman's right to choose is very important, I think that "well regulated militia" means that guns should be carefully licensed and not just randomly given to any moron with a pulse, and I couldn't care less if you decided to dress up in the "wrong" clothes or decided you'd rather live your life without feeling tied to whatever plumbing you were born with. And dammit, if that all makes me "woke", then I think anybody who uses that word as a pejorative is a f*cking disgrace to the human race.

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Linus is Liberal as a pejorative.

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 14 hours ago

He's a political/economic pragmatist. If you have record of him promoting capitalism or bashing socialism, please share, but as it is, Norway is one of the dozen most-socialist-leaning coutries on earth.

Maybe don't apply USian non-sense everywhere. Liberal vs Mamdani as a prejorative is relavent. Liberal vs Torvalds as a prejoritive makes about as much sense as saying the same about Xi Jiping, Kim Jong Un, Miguel Díaz-Canel, or Lenin.

It's absurd, obtuse, and besides the point, every bit so as the DNC using identity politics only to silence, promote, or ignore real voices for change.

[–] SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ah, the liberal progressiveness. Not the seizing the means of production for the proletariat kind. My bad, I wasn't being fully open in my past comment because I know the world 'socialism' triggers many in the technology bubble.