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Like y'all keep posting about it, praising it, giving it free advertisement, and what not.

But the dev is a fascist, the discord server is a fascist bar, and the project thus is fascist.

I've met people who were harassed, I browsed through now deleted messages of Vaxry using slurrs and more.

So I wonder is if the people who post constantly about it know and are complicit, or just don't know and would act otherwise?

It gets tiring to see the project be given "fame" when I know the roots of the plants are founded in toxicity & abuse.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison could have both had kids in their basement, would that stop me from using electricity absolutely fucking not, someone invents something I like, and is useful to me, I use it, I don't fucking care what he thinks about anything, he could be best mates with fucking Kanye and make music about how he fucked his cousin, I'd still use it, it's open source and useful, he works on it full time from what it seems and maintains it for himself and not you lot and your huge fucking egos who think everything revolves around you. He wanted to make something he'd find useful and decided to share it with the world.

Would you stop using anything mass manufactured, just because Henry Ford, who did in fact have actual Nazi ideals, hated Jews and worker's rights, invented the conveyor belt, and call anybody that uses mass manufactured items a fascist?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

i hate to be a pedant (who am i kidding, i love to be) but they didn't really invent electricity, so much as discover it and improve on existing technologies. ben franklin was writing about lightning rods a century before. also autoerotic asphyxiation. that's true, look it up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Vaxry's a shitbird and I'm glad people aren't quiet about it. "It's just software, why does everyone make it political", mfer software is inherently political. FOSS even more so. You can use whatever you want, but that doesn't shield you from contributing to a fash asshole's power within the community. If you're comfy with that, I'm just as comfy calling you out for letting the Nazi into the bar

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

This is akin to MAGA calling the pope marxist cuz he disagrees with them, some people are so one-dimensional its comical, you cant fight stupidity with stupidity, this is how actual fascists justify all of their extremist views, extremism just encourages extremism on the other side and gives those who are indoctrinated a bigger reason to support their indoctrinators. Tunnel vision is one crazy phenomenon 🤡

Regardless of his views I'll continue using it and supporting it. People will find anything good and look for a reason to ruin it grow tf up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Yes, I'm noticing it's getting worse as time goes on.

We're rewarded for our hysteria and punished for going against it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

American politics genuinely makes me lose braincells, backwards fucking country, MAGA or otherwise

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

is this the part where i get to smugly use i3? :P

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Use Vivarium instead, it works and it is very featured !

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 days ago

There's no drama like FOSS drama.

Agree with the other comments here saying that not everything in life should be viewed through the prism of politics. Civilised society is comprised of people putting their differences aside to work together on various endeavours.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago
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