One could argue that fascist run FOSS projects might be working against your interest as a user.

Fascist is not just a silly label. The political collapse of neoliberalism made a lot of closet fascists emerge and they seem quite common among what was earlier thought of as "techno libertarians". E.g. the VPN provider owner (forgot which) just lately.

If there was too much crying wolf 15 years ago, doesn't really matter now anyways.

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hypfer 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> One could argue that fascist run FOSS projects might be working against your interest as a user.

I guess so, but that's abstract and hard to grasp for most people.

"The guy has clearly lost it and thus is probably not making sensible decisions" otoh is pretty easy to understand, signals effectively the same and side-steps basically all the drama.

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rightbyte 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Sure. You need to relate to the overton window to not seem like a tinfoil hat alarmist hysteric to normal people. I can agree on that.

It is really hard to keep your cool.

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markovs_gun 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> "The guy has clearly lost it and thus is probably not making sensible decisions"

That isn't the problem though. Fascism isn't mental instability, it's an ideology. Someone going off the deep end and making bad decisions does so essentially at random, while someone driven by ideology messes things up in very specific ways. In the case of Fascist ideology, the specific ways they ruin things are specifically intended to harm specific groups of people, so I think the distinction matters. Writing it off as the guy having "lost it" obscures the specific goal he is working towards.

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hypfer 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Dude I am trying _so hard_ to hammer the point home that no one cares anymore about all this twitter virtue signalling stuff.

Can we please stop and start doing _effective_ stuff before we actually all get right-wing ruling parties?

My god. Third person to try to pull everything back to the thing that is proven to not work _at all_ against the current threat. Are you even real? Is this just agentic AI?

I'm going to force myself to stop replying now before I start just degrading into agonizing screaming.

break;

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fwip 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I think this might be a case of "speak for yourself." Plenty of people don't want to support fascists.

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hypfer 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Okay, no agentic LLM on the planet would suffer from reading comprehension this bad.

So thanks, I guess. Thanks for the proof of humanity. At what cost though.

	▲	fwip 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm a different person (or at least, user account) than the other one you were talking to. So I suppose they could be AI.

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inigyou 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It was one of the Mullvad owners.

We should probably ask ourselves why there aren't more Mullvads. I think the answer is twofold - first, developers can't business, and second, running something like that carries massive political risk which that type of person is more willing to shoulder. If one doesn't feel afraid to help found a Nazi party they sure won't be afraid to run a VPN service.

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watwut 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>,If there was too much crying wolf 15 years ago, doesn't really matter now anyways.

There was not. I used to think they are crying wolf, but imo, it turned out they were correct all along.

They were paying attention to what these people were saying and doing. They then concluded these people are fascists. Then a bunch of us, not paying attention crowd, came in accused them of crying wolf.

Maybe, crying wolf is about a boy who sees a wolf, causes commotion and protects the village. Then they dont feel like going in one time, wolfs eats them. But, village just wont admit they were obviously wrong and blames the boy.