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stop using a system made by fascist?
I wasn't sure what to make of claims that this random techbro is a fascist, so I decided to look for clues. I found this article from last month in minutes, and after reading it, I require no further convincing. Guy's a Nazi whether he knows it or not.
The creator and maintainer of NeoVim was also really against removing a DHH endorsement from the NeoVim website and called it cancel culture.
Quote from end of your linked article. Note he talks about humans:
This guy is complete trash. Does excessive coding rip holes into people's brains?
No, because until the dot-com era when "tech bros" first became a thing, a lot of the computing pioneers were leftist/hippie counterculture types. Think MIT AI Lab (RMS), The Homebrew Computer Club (Woz, Captain Crunch), Germany's Chaos Computer Club, etc.
Further reading:
https://bigthink.com/the-present/1960s-counterculture-created-silicon-valley/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_Dormouse_Said
He knows it. He just doesn't admit it.
Ugh, I stopped reading when he segwayed from wolves being a danger to humans straight into the "gypsy problem" 🤮
Also had a look at the site for this distro, he really seems to like cars and seems to be pretty full of himself about some neither-new-nor-original arch+tiling_wm distro.
WHOA. Bombastic claim there, brah.
He's a Eugenics aficionado, and racist-ADJACENT
The hard question becomes is it better for Linux (where anyone can contribute) to get the attention and donations or for commercial software where only nonhuman corporations benefit.
The more power such people have in such positions, the more money they get, the worse it gets. And the bigger the cult might get, which could suck people into the views and so on. Do not underestimate that.