On X11 and the Fascists Maggots : linux

[+] [email protected] -7 points 1 day ago

If only this wonderful opinion were published someplace else than blogs.gnome.org and by someone who's not a GNOME developer who are expected to lie by now.

X11 is not glorious past, it just makes sense.

Of course, when you freeze it in a certain state, only doing bug fixes, you can't utilize its modularity and extensibility to fix problems that can be fixed in an alternative with actual development happening. But it appears the solution of finally making a fork has been found.

I welcome anyone to find fascism, nazism, conspiracy theories (if that's about said freeze and refusal to break backwards compatibility in some things, then, well, that's a fact visible for anyone on the web) here.

“Concerned” Trolling about the Accessibility of the Wayland session

So for actual complaints they just say it's trolling and put quotes. That's not a valid response.

You all need mandatory supervised access to the Internet from now on.

Maybe snowflake GNOME devs need that? I don't use GNOME, so - won't really feel the loss.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The link is broken, unfortunately

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Alternative URLs have been posted in thread.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I will always be hated for this but fascism is necessary. It is the whip of the owning class. As long as you have capitalism, you have fascism.

In more detail if you wish:

Normal society: Person make chair, person sell chair, person eat

Thats the "natural" way of things.

Capitalism: Person make chair, person get tiny cut of chair because [mArKeTiNg cOsT, responsibility, land ownership and other bogus excuses], person eat less, capitalist eat more.

People dont really accept this because it is not natural or fair. Therefore you need a couple of things, depending on the stage of capitalism:

the carrot (you will have your own house! you will buy cool things! you can be rich!)

the veil (propaganda, telling you why it is the only thing that works, why you just need to comply, because compliance will be rewarded...)

the stick (a militarized police force that will shoot you if you dont comply)

As you can see, all western states are currently going down the "military disguised as police" route. Why do you think that is? It is because the capitalists want more yachts.

And after 100 years of propaganda, we actually believe there never has been a better system.

Have a great day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

And after 100 years of propaganda, we actually believe there never has been a better system.

If you mean the way a medieval village or town functioned, then this comparison omits the improvements of "capitalism" over it.

Person make chair, person sell chair, person eat - that's if they are this village's or town's chairmaker. If not, they are treated as if they stole from the chairmaker. Teeth kicked in, banished. Something like that. The chairmaker's role is transferred by inheritance or by apprenticeship from one person to one other person. Like a noble's title.

The way medical practice works in some countries with English law, I've heard, still reminisces that, and the results are not liked generally.

Choices and social mobility and social lifts are not present in a traditional society. That village remains in one place over many years. It may grow or shrink, but there's simply no need to allow cook's son to become a chairmaker, or vice versa. Or if there's is, the whole village may assemble and talk about such a decision once in 10-20 years. If he has two sons, then one of them works for the other, can't be cook on his own. If he wants to be his own man, he can try and find an apprenticeship, if some other master doesn't have a son or an apprentice. In other place maybe.

In a city it was similar, except, to scale the same "natural order", guilds existed and not small families, but guilds' heads would make such collegial decisions. Or heads of merchant families.

What you feel as oppression now is not really worse than what a medieval man felt, living all his life the same way in the same place.

I blame Marx for this misconception, he probably tried to play the "good old times" typical German card, but his followers, as a result, often believe that industrialization somehow made free people wage slaves. No. Try living in a village, today, in a western country. And then imagine you wouldn't work or travel elsewhere, all your life would be around that small place, with the same few people and families year after year. Social lifts and social mobility, vertical or even horizontal, were simply unimaginable in such a structure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I've always found it very useful to find the capitalist shills like this early in threads like these to block and clear the air.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Yes, one of the reasons I do this is so that people like you would clean the air.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

On the one hand, the guy who wrote this blog post is kinda unhinged.

On the other hand, I'm kinda living for it and agree with his views.

So really it all evens out in the end.

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