> 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.