Protest against the Omarchy/Omacom Foundation and the tech companies and executives funding far-right open source.

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    i just use CachyOS anyways, cause i prefer it more then Omarchy and Omarchy is just Arch Linux prebuilt like CachyOS.
    i did try Arch Linux Vanilla(no Archinstall),but i dont think thats for me.
    ngl Omarchy makes Manjaro look like a saint.

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      The fact that it’s described as having “an AI agent focus” makes me somewhat uneasy; I left Windows because AI in Notepad seemed like too much.

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    Why are you morons trying to make me try Omarchy? I wouldn’t really care about that distro without all the idiotic whining.

    DHH is calling you clowns. Good job proving his point.

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      The sign of a fully formed adult human:

      being “forced” to do a thing simply because people on a website don’t like the thing (also who actually cares why they don’t like it? Having values is for losers)

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      Go back to posting on your libertarian instance with no interaction from anyone else. The self quarantine was nice.

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      If you’re reading dhh’s blog, then you already know what he’s about. Which makes you a complicit jackass. Shoo.

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      *David Attenborough voice* And here we see a contrarian in the wild, see how they mimic the patterns of a fascist, but hold no views of their own? Fascinating

      It is as if they believe they can look more intellectual and interesting than they really are, a weak facade that everyone can see through.

      They will not last the winter.

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    I’ve Omarchy installed in one of my laptops & I’m going to keep using it. If you have a problem with politics, you shouldn’t be using iPhones for similar reasons. Steve jobs was worse & he drove people to delete themselves.

    As long as you have nothing to say about Apple/boycott Apple, I’m disregarding your takes on Omarchy.

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      Enjoy eating meals with Nazis and then breathlessly trying to explain to normal people that you’re not actually one yourself.

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      So you’re stance is that as long as there’s anyone in the world not speaking out against everything made by immoral people, you can use whatever you want?

      Also just FYI, Omarchy has a big history of beginner-level exploitable bugs, so just from a security standpoint I wouldn’t use it.

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    So nobody who make things cannot have an opinion anymore? Grow up.

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        I can’t imagine someone hearing racist beliefs and then defending them as just opinions someone can have. Like that’s fuckin crazy. Corporate media has done such a number on people they can’t even recognize the swastika on their fuckin arm.

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    The Omarchy Doctrine is a public, fascist creed: heritage as duty, hold the line, the will to power. It matches Roger Griffin’s palingenetic populist ultranationalism and Robert Paxton’s first stage of fascism: a creed, a leader, followers…

    this guy knows how to spot fascism

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        About which part bud? Use your words. Which part of DHH’s blogs do you agree with and which do you think people are saying is racist and fascist but aren’t?

        If you’re gonna defend Nazi beliefs, defend them.

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          He moderates and is the only poster of a Libertarian instance, definitely a little boot licking chud.

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            Im just constantly shocked how many people will come out of the wood work to defend people with Nazi beliefs when you just include one thing they did within society.

            Like a post about DHH being a Nazi feels like it would get no traffic, but say “the creator of Omarchy, DHH, is a nazi” and ya I guess the libertarians poor out of the background noise to shout about how someone who made something can’t be bad? Like why pretend you’re a libertarian if you’re actually just a fascist conservative who wishes racist policies were better for the economy. It’s cosplaying an enlightened conservative while remaining true to the core identity which is make everything worse for everyone at every opportunity.

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    And this is just going to fuel on the fire that is DHH’s crusade. He’s already called the linux community “a bunch of clowns” so this is just going to generate more money for his dotfiles and more than likely grow the userbase.

    Granted the Omarchy userbase are a bunch of morons. Also doesn’t help that youtube linux content creators are all pretty much praising the damn thing and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know why. Makes it easy to know which creators to unsub from but it literally leaves it with 4 left one of which doesn’t post anymore.

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      I don’t give a shit about DHH or Omarchy.

      The sad part and why it sucks so much is because instead of feeding people we just gave $18m to a fascist to babysit some shitty post install scripts…

      Reality is stranger than fiction.

      Edit. FUCK every org associated with Omarchy. I’ll never give them a fucking dime.

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    Reading The Omarchy Doctrine made me physically cringe. That alone is a good argument to boycott Omarchy.

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      This is some deeply unserious nonsense. Omarchy will blow up the moment it gains any real traction. I can see the infighting coming from miles away, the money will make it worse. Stacking up on popcorn might be a good idea.

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    “Me: Oh a list of assholes to avoid, nice. Shopify, who tf is that? EZ. 1 keep sucks, lol. Dell…they make trash, easy. Meta, lol, already done. Coin base more like Rube Base am I right? Digital Ocean still relevant in the hosting world? I thought they’d have gone the way of Go Daddy, Ez boycott list.”

    “Brain: You skipped one.”

    “Me: reads again Fffffffffffuuuu”

    I have no fucking clue how to effectively boycott CloudFlare, gang. That’s…kinda the point of how they positioned themselves.

    Stupid fucks, they’re the only one who stands to make as much hand over fist whether open source enshitifies or not. Except if it enshitifies enough, their spigot stops spilling money.

    Greedy cunts and the allure of control, what a dynamic duo.

    The fuck to use to replace the quintillion different services CF sells?

    Asking for…several friends, actually.

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      Yea I currently own all of my domains through cloudflare’s registrar and use them for authoritative DNS. Migrating to another registrar and DNS authority sounds pretty annoying.

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        It’s really easy. Just check the documentation for transfers on the source and destination registrars. I used to do this all the time at a previous job.

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      Shopify is the platform that the vast majority of online stores use. It’s basically as hard to avoid as CloudFlare.

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      I cut out Cloudflare with a combination of Quad9 and NetBird Reverse Proxy. It’s not going to be free forever but if I don’t start putting my wallet behind my principles I might find out I don’t have a job or my kid won’t have a planet.

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      Depends. Everything can be replicated given enough time investment. Depends on the cost and if it is even worth.

      One can’t really dodge everything. But giving the bare minimum to pass is, in my eyes, acceptable.

      Perfect is the enemy of good.

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      I don’t use cloudflare for anything. I mean, other sites do, and I can’t control that when I visit them, and I’m probably not going to boycott them right away, but it will put them onto my “actively looking for an alternative” list. Meanwhile my own stuff is never going to be behind cloudflare, and yours doesn’t need to be either, and eventually with enough “you’s” and “me’s” we’ll have our own cloudflare-free internet and the rest of the corporate bullshit can all go choke to death on its own enshittification.

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      A good idea is to list which CloudFlare services you use and see what nerds have to say. There’s pretty much always a CloudFlare alternative, no matter the product

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    As someone who was vaguely aware of omarchy and an arch user already, I had no interest in using it. I am happy to see more people talking about why it could be controversial. It helps counter the propaganda being pushed by the influencers right now. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

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    I honestly don’t see why any of this should stop someone from using the software.

    It’s open source. If you don’t like DHH, his politics, or the people funding Omarchy, then don’t give them money. Don’t donate, don’t sponsor them, don’t contribute upstream.

    But the code is out there under the MIT license. Anyone can use it, change it, remove whatever they don’t like, or fork the whole thing.

    Using a piece of open-source software doesn’t mean you endorse the politics of whoever wrote it. If that were the standard, we’d probably have to audit the personal beliefs of thousands of developers before installing anything.

    And if people really think Omarchy has become some political project, then fork it. Change the branding, change the maintainers, change whatever you want. That’s literally one of the reasons open source is useful.

    Boycotting companies you don’t want to financially support is one thing. Treating open-source code itself as politically contaminated is another, and I don’t think that makes much sense.

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      And if people really think Omarchy has become some political project, then fork it.

      There’s literally nothing to fork. From what I understand, it in and of itself, isn’t even distinct enough from Arch to be considered a fork.

      And how about we stop discouraging people from standing by their values?

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      To me it’s more that a tolerant society should not tolerate people or projects that have this kind of intolerance to others.

      Because, if we do, we lose our democracy.

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      Golly gee, there just aren’t enough Linux distros to choose from. I just have to go with the one by the worst people imaginable. What other choice do I have?

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        I use Fedora. I obviously don’t “have to” use Omarchy.

        But the existence of alternatives has nothing to do with whether using a piece of software means endorsing its author. Otherwise software selection just becomes an ideological loyalty test.

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          Using it increases the adoption numbers which can lead to more adoption, and therefore funding. It’s indirect, but it still shows support for the author.

          To me, DHH being a toolshed isn’t even the worst part of an LLM coded slop “distro” that recently had a significant RCE vulnerability that required the bare minimum to exploit. Every OS / distro also has vulnerabilities pop up, but that’s a known issue with slop code. DHH being a racist cunt is just the cherry on top.

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      It’s the same as hanging up a picture painted by Hitler.

      You just don’t unless you are a Nazi.

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        That’s just guilt by association with a Hitler comparison thrown in.

        Brendan Eich created JavaScript and donated to the campaign against same-sex marriage in California. Does using JavaScript mean you endorse that too?

        Of course not. Using someone’s work isn’t an endorsement of their politics.

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          JavaScript is not a standalone product produced by a single company who’s leader is blogging about how “foreign vagrants should be sent back to where they came from”, my use of a web browser does not directly enrich Brendan Eich.

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      Your points are correct. If they were about an irreplaceable library where there were only one or two options then yeah that’d be fine.

      But there aren’t. This is a Linux “distro” with a thousand other options. It’s literally just a Linux distro with a few dot files added. There’s zero reason to ever use this distro.

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        That still doesn’t really address my point.

        Whether there are two alternatives or two thousand doesn’t change what using the software means. If someone prefers Omarchy’s defaults, setup or workflow, that’s enough of a reason to use it.

        And if it’s really “just Linux with a few dotfiles added”, that makes the idea that using it is some meaningful political endorsement even harder to take seriously.

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          If someone prefers Omarchy’s defaults, setup or workflow, that’s enough of a reason to use it.

          And if I find out they’re a Nazi, that’s enough reason not to. And in this case there’s so little friction and it’s so simple to not use it, that it’s a no brainer.

          If I can avoid supporting a Nazi this easily, without altering a single noticeable thing about my life, it would be irresponsible not to.

          Do you understand now?

          There is a level of friction associated with changing anything like this for ideological reasons, and everyone has to have their own ways of deciding which ones are worth pushing against, according to them.

          “Avoid the Nazi that puts out a slightly modified version of Arch,” is just a no brainer. It takes no effort or energy whatsoever to avoid having that in your life.

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          To frame it better:

          Let’s say I cloned arch, changed the default wallpaper to a swastika, put up a blogpost saying “Heil hitler”, and then suddenly got over 50X donations than an actually useful and different OS.

          Since last year, Linux mint got $280k donations. Omarchy in the last few months got 15 MILLION. Linux mint maintains 2 distros, and 1 desktop environment, and is basically the gold standard for newbie friendly distros. Omarchy is a few dotfiles and a pile of nazis.

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            Let’s say I cloned arch, changed the default wallpaper to a swastika, put up a blogpost saying “Heil hitler”, and then suddenly got over 50X donations than an actually useful and different OS.

            And this fascinating thought experiment relates to Omarchy how?

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            Don’t forget Hyprland which is apparently even more problematic

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                From what I remember;

                Someone in the hyprland discord kept getting misgendered so they put their pronouns in their profile. At some point a mod then changed them to who/cares.

                When this came to Vaxry’s attention he said something to the affect of “I don’t care, sort it out yourselves”.

                Someone from redhat then either complained or was a member of the freedesktop CoC and he got banned.

                Now freedesktop is in an awkward position of one of the biggest wayland DE’s no longer being allowed to contribute to the Wayland spec.

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      Do you think just ignoring a festering fascist presence that is getting tons of funding in a community that regularly has money problems will lead to it just going away?

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        No see they want us to like it and get on board with it because they’re trying to design society in their minds like they design a C++ object; everything must follow the correct interfaces, getters and setters must be privatized, and if any management mistakes are made then processes must be killed.

        Im not on board though; no war but class war.

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      Voicing again my agreement, all of this energy going against DHH could be put into a fork and that would be way more powerful and effective of a move.

      It’s got kind of a tai chi element - move in the direction of the vector don’t try to go against it. It’s popular for a reason, and you don’t have to throw the baby out with the bath water. There are many things today that you could hyperfocus on the evil aspect of that people still use in their daily lives because it brings them utility.

      I used Omarchy and it inspired me to make a NixOS version of it that I called Omnixient :) Thanks to the open-source nature I now have my own awesome config that has brought me a lot of fulfillment and productivity I did not have before.

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        A fork of what? We already have countless forks of Arch. My understanding is that this one itself doesn’t even change enough to meet the definition of “fork”.

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        Publish it.

        Again the software and its functionality are not the problem, I just don’t want to support a jackass and his shit takes about dehumanizing people and passing the buck on problems society created.

        While he takes on million of dollars for a project that is not an innovator in the space.

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          but I’m honestly curious, what is this movement against him going to accomplish? I do not know this DHH character nor do I care to listen to anything he says. If he’s as bad as all of these accusations make him out to be then he’s someone who’s just going to write off all of this and/or it’ll fuel him.

          I’m genuinely curious, what is the real value or impact of this crusade versus putting that energy toward something constructive? While everyone here is writing about fascism, him and capitalism will keep developing.

          It’s just all sounds like terribly futile tactics…

          I had originally linked it, but damn! to be honest i want to have nothing to do with whatever is going on here and I’m just going to keep building stuff toward open-source decentralized future using whatever tools I have at my disposal to close the distance. I’m no trained software developer (learned C++ and python from mech engineering & physics) that can reliably maintain a repo people might depend on and this just seems like people flinging shit around. Noooo thank you

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          but I’m honestly curious, what is this movement against him going to accomplish? I do not know this DHH character nor do I care to listen to anything he says. If he’s as bad as all of these accusations make him out to be then he’s someone who’s just going to write off all of this and/or it’ll fuel him. I’m genuinely curious, what is the real value or impact of this crusade versus putting that energy toward something constructive? While everyone here is writing about fascism, him and capitalism will keep developing. It’s just all sounds like terribly futile tactics…

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    “How dare people I don’t like give away software”

    A political analysis of the founders and leadership behind every product you use must be an exhausting way to live your life.

    Unless you propose to gather all those somewhere and “deal with them”, the far-right people are still people. And if they’re not breaking the law, they should enjoy all possible social activities and the fruits of their labor etc. Basically whatever every living human would want and be deserving of.

    Your asking is unreasonable. And we all know that if the far-right people are excluded, they’ll just make a “better” Linux community elsewhere. Then the whining will be about them not letting any of the extremists far-left fury Marxists on it ever again.

    Also, this hyperbolic inflation of ad hominem “fascist” labeling just makes the word lose its meaning, and makes people lose their respect/belief in what you’re saying. If you want to have a rational discussion using critical thinking, attack the argument not the person. Define words before using them. Tell us what “fascist” means to you, and why you think it applies in this context. Then listen to what people say and try to understand their perspective before writing them off as some kind of lost cause.

    If instead you’re not interested in a debate, you’ve already made up your mind and believe there can be no other valid perspectives, well, then maybe you weren’t looking for truth OR intelligence in the first place. As a rule, strong feelings about issues do not emerge from deep understanding.

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      m. Tell us what “fascist” means to you, and why you think it applies in this context.

      DHH—creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO at 37signals, and Shopify board member—has published white-nationalist essays. He called a Tommy Robinson “remigration” march “heartwarming,”[1][2][3][46] and wrote another comparing Roma people to wolves to be shot and deported.[4][5] Anthropic’s own model refused to translate it, calling it dehumanizing.[6]

      wrote another comparing Roma people to wolves to be shot and deported

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        I still don’t see a definition of fascist, only baseless accusations with the worst possible interpretations of their posts.

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          The standing definition in left-of-center bubbles seems to be “people who have said a thing somebody with social media influence didn’t like”. Funny how these things flip, when I was young it used to be the crazy right-wing christians who did that, and leftists and anarchists were the voice of sanity.

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          a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti)** that exalts nation and often race above the individual**, that is associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, and that is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by** forcible suppression of opposition**

          From DHH’s blog:

          Because as the number of wolves has been rising sharply every year since 2021, so too has the number of dead sheep. In 2021, it was 78, then in the years that followed, it was 162, 336, 521, and last year, it was 1,285! But the official line is still that shooting a wolf without a special permit is strictly prohibited because they’re an endangered species, so maybe sheep herders could just try some more fences?

          You don’t have to be a statistician to see the problem here. When you have a surging wolf population, you’ll have the rate of dead sheep following suit. If the only answer to the situation is “maybe try some more fences?”, you’re going to get more of what you already have: an out-of-control population that’s an increasing risk to sheep, livestock, and potentially humans too.

          This is the most basic consequence of inaction in the face of a growing threat: the problem just gets worse.

          Cue the gypsies in Copenhagen, and their increasingly brazen behavior, after the city legalized overnight sleeping in parks and other green areas last year. Because “it shouldn’t be illegal to be homeless”, so the police refuses to act.

          This has predictably led to these foreign vagrants setting up camp in the green areas around some of the city’s metro stations to the great dismay of neighbors. The vagrants are literally shitting in the bushes, which obviously stinks, and the area isn’t made any more inviting by the open-fire cooking that’s also going on.

          Please tell me what the charitable interpretation of this is, and how it is not leaning towards “remove the foreign animals by force before they destroy our beautiful white culture”

          EDIT: Let me not forget the best bit:

          Standing idly by while your livestock is devoured by predators or your neighborhood is taken over by migrants is a pathetic abdication of any functioning society’s most basic duty to its citizens.

          When wolves get out of control, you shoot them. When gypsies take over public spaces, you deport them. This isn’t hard, it isn’t cruel. It’s the basic logic of self-preservation.

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            He did not call for them to be shot, he expressed that he would like to deport homeless vagrants who were not Danish citizens. If vagrancy is a crime, then deporting a criminal is not a controversial stance. It is, in fact, standard operating procedure for any nation-state in the world that can afford to do so.

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              If you think “follow the law” is the part of his argument that I take issue with, you are being purposefully obtuse.

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              fascism
                  n 1: a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical
                       government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism)
            

            Please point to where they are advocating for an authoritarian government.

            Hint: It’s not in the posts “As I remember London” or “Wolves, sheep, and gypsies”.

            That doesn’t sound fair does it? That’s exactly what people are doing by making these claims without critical thinking and having their minds already made up.

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              “No one has provided me with a definition of fascism! I’ll provide my own!”

              [removes everything from the definition except advocacy of authoritarian governments]

              “See guys! YOU where wrong!”

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                Even with the stripped out version of the definition, that still clearly defines the current Republican regime. It’s a self own if I’ve ever seen one.

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                  DHH explicitly calls for a strong leader and that they must be followed. I read ONE of his blog posts to verify he’s what everyone is saying he is, and ya in plain English he was parroting the same racist, racist, authoritarian bullshit every sad loser who refuses to go to therapy is spouting. Literally break bread with a black person, get offline and read a book written by a famous dead marginalized person (like Frankenstein or something it’s not hard to find an applicable and enjoyable book), and realize poor immigrants can’t afford the housing in London and then think about why housing everyone is getting more expensive AND the world has a trillionaire.

                  It’s really not very hard to draw the correct connections vs the wrong one.

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      And we all know that if the far-right people are excluded, they’ll just make a better Linux community elsewhere.

      Lol, no they won’t.

      They are people, and they do have every right to live there lives, but not consequence free. Racists, bigots, etc all deserve the hate they get. By using products they create and profit from, the user is helping fund that person’s beliefs and actions. I for one gladly will not use their products. The little bit of extra work keeping mental tabs on those products or companies and doing my best to avoid them is far better than supporting them in any way. I don’t always avoid them and in some cases it’s not feasibly possible, but I can try.

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          Like I said, I try to avoid things when it’s feasible. Cutting electronica out isn’t feasible.

          Here are the core principles of fascism. Republicans check all of the boxes. That’s why we call them fascists. It’s not just a knee jerk title to draw shock it’s a fitting title based on their actions. Feel free to try and dispute any of that.

          Core Characteristics of Fascism.

          • Powerful and Continuing Nationalism: Regimes constantly use patriotic mottos, symbols, and songs, whipping up fear of external threats to unify the populace.
          • Disdain for Human Rights: Basic civil liberties are ignored or suspended under the guise of national security and public safety.
          • Scapegoating and Identifying Enemies: Popular discontent is redirected toward a common enemy—often minority groups, immigrants, or political dissidents—blamed for the nation’s problems.
          • Supremacy of the Military: A disproportionate amount of national resources goes toward military funding and glorifying armed forces, viewing peace as weakness.
          • Controlled Mass Media: Independent news outlets are either directly censored, state-run, or intimidated into compliance through propaganda.
          • Obsession with National Security: Fear is utilized as a primary motivational tool by the government to keep citizens hyper-vigilant and compliant.
          • Intertwining Religion and Government: Ruling parties frequently leverage dominant religious identities to shape public policy and project moral superiority.
          • Protection of Corporate Power: While populist rhetoric targets the “everyman,” actual economic policy typically preserves and collaborates with wealthy corporate monopolies.
          • Suppression of Labor Power: Independent labor unions are outlawed or heavily restricted because they threaten state and corporate synchronization.
          • Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts: Free expression, academia, and critical thought are viewed with intense suspicion and suppressed if they challenge state narratives.
          • Obsession with Crime and Punishment: Police powers are expanded, and local laws are enforced with extreme, unchecked authority.
          • Rampant Cronyism and Corruption: Friends and loyal associates of the regime are appointed to powerful positions, looting state resources without legal consequence.
          • Fraudulent Elections: Democratic processes are manipulated, rigged, or completely abolished to maintain the ruling party’s absolute grip on power.

          crickets

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            Sure, MAGA republicans are fascists. I don’t think that needs to be disputed.

            Still a bit hazy how DHH and silly little project relates to all this.

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              Then go read DHH’s blog before you defend a guy with Nazi beliefs dude. Are you seriously responding everywhere in this thread and you’re happy to call MAGA fascists but not DHH?! He’s talking about the exact same political hate speech. “Migrants are bad, we need a strong leader, free speech is dying (but actually my only examples are racists and homophobes getting arrested for disturbing the peace)(explicitly not the Palestine speech arrests)” like not a single word about the ultra rich destroying his country and culture. Not a single word about valuing people who don’t look like him. Not a single positive thing that would tell someone “oh this isn’t a boilerplate nazi”. He is nationalist, he is racist, he is afraid, and he is too stupid to point to the source of the problem that every country in the world is facing right now.

              And you’re defending him. A guy with nazi beliefs. Online, where everyone can write a note next to your username and go “defends Nazi’s”. And you’re saying you haven’t even read his blog?!