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I'm not saying there are no right-wing tech nerds, I'm saying that your argument that tech nerds are right wing is overly reductive.
You concede my point about FOSS but then try to muddy the waters from there by citing "their platforms started getting cracked down on and [their having] adopted cryptocurrency" to try to make your prior pidgeon-holing still work. Mind citing me a source for either of those claims? Neither of those seem to me to be issues plaguing the wider FOSS community, and as a participant I'm interested to hear about this news I've apparently missed.
Silicon Valley is not representative of tech nerds in general. It is, like Hollywood, a small area filled with desperate people trying to turn their talents into fame and fortune. Insinuating that tech nerds in general have the same culture as Silicon Valley is like insinuating that actors in general dress, act, and think like Hollywood actors do. It's ridiculous on its face.
All this to say it really sounds like you've built up a stereotype based on what you read in the news rather than by engaging with the actual community in question.
It's my industry too.
I wasn't asking if right-wingers love crypto, but about what you were arguing about the FOSS community having "their platforms ... getting cracked down on and [their having] adopted cryptocurrency", which sounds an awful lot like a specific claim or two.
I literally still have no idea which events you're referring to, unless you're just saying "but crypto exists". I mean, we're on a FOSS platform right now.
Nice strawman, though. Honestly pretty ironic that you're implicitly accusing me of arguing in bad faith when you've misrepresented my question so entirely.
I asked you to establish the truth value of your claims about the FOSS community 1) adopting crypto and 2) being cracked down on. That's not sealioning. I genuinely had no idea what you were talking about and I'm in the FOSS community.
Even with this correction I think you're maybe referring to RedHat being shitty with regards to going corporate, which is a bit silly since they've always been the corporate-friendly for-profit Linux company. I mean it is worse than it had been but it's hardly indicative of a trend across the entire community.
I honestly still have no idea what you're alluding to WRT the FOSS community adopting crypto, though. Blockchain stuff I get, it was a trendy technology and IPFS is neat and all, but I've seen no trend towards cryptocurrency in the general FOSS community. Like what, did Apache mint some NFTs? Tell me what you're alluding to so I can Google it, even, if you're too lazy to send me a link.
Your strawman (from my perspective) was the reframing of my request as needing proof that "right-wingers love crypto projects" which was not what I was asking about at all. You decided that I was sealioning because I called bullshit on your claims about trends in the FOSS community, from my perspective. That seemed to me an awful lot like misrepresenting my argument in order to dismiss it out of hand, so, y'know, a strawman.
Do your coworkers know what you think about them? My coworkers do because I respect the hell out of them.