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[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 3 points 30 minutes ago

Can't wait for Lemmy to jack themselves off to this while not analyzing all the eugenics, sexism, racism, and various other horrible bullshit on here every day that goes completely unconfronted

Ya'll ain't even white knights. You ain't even keyboard warriors. You don't even address the trash in your own yard. None of you shitballs is a feminist, communist, woke, or left in any regard.

[–] laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago
[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

soon the government will be run entirely on TeslaOS

[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 42 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

One could argue Linux, GPL, and Open Source are all based on woke communist concepts.

[–] Overshoot2648@lemm.ee 4 points 3 hours ago

I'd argue they are anarchist socialist, at least in terms of intellectual property as they are collaborative and free to access and use. With permissive licenses being more anarchist capitalist as you can capture and make a project uncollaborative.

[–] Kagu@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Very loose definition of "leftist" there but we take a W where we can.

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

Linus is basically a "centrist dad" but that's fine with me.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 15 points 8 hours ago (8 children)

Why are leftists the absolute worse for gatekeeping what makes a true leftist?

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 2 points 30 minutes ago* (last edited 29 minutes ago)

To keep out fascists and centrists, quite obviously.

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

It's not gatekeeping, none of the opinions shared here by Linus are categorically leftist. The person retweeting him is erroneously putting him into a box, or knows more about his full ideology than he's shared in the tweet.

[–] Kagu@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 hours ago

It's not gatekeeping to point out that 'leftist' historically doesn't mean 'left of center'. It's used as a reductive - but that's the nature of trying to reduce political ideologies to a single term - label for ideologies that are anti-capitalist. Nothing Linus said in this post points to him being anti-capitalist, he only commented on social issues.

He might still be a leftist, I'll give you that, but this post doesn't really show that.

[–] dx1@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Because the direction "left" doesn't actually have any inherent relationship to political ideologies, but people strive for some kind of ideological purity, especially to draw a contrast with a fundamentally unjust society?

The direction left is just an human construct, man.

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[–] greywolf0x1@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 hours ago

my first thought exactly, when did Linus became a lefist?

[–] Flumpkin@slrpnk.net 30 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (19 children)

If you believe in equality, you're woke. You're also a socialist. Because since fascism is a sincere belief in inequality based on identity, while neoliberalism (democrats) is a sincere belief in inequality based on class / wealth.

So yeah, this belief in equality or basic human decency needs to be destroyed in order to maximize profit. Invest in this propaganda, great ROI guaranteed!

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[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 16 points 12 hours ago (10 children)

I've started replying "ok, dozer" to anyone who complains about "wholeness" to me. The ennui I have with the regressives is just beyond description anymore.

[–] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 13 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I like this word to describe those responsible for us all going backwards now: regressives.

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[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

What kind of lameass comeback is that? You can do better.

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

I mean you're right, but January/February is always a low ebb for the spice level in my life.

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[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 81 points 16 hours ago

He is such a good role model for being wealthy.

He is, when it comes down to it, pretty wealthy. But we are talking about the guy who created the kernel that now runs nearly every Internet service, all Android phones, most streaming devices, and a lot of various embedded devices. Anyone else with that much impact would be a billionaire many times over.

But he's got a comfortable amount and has not exercised unreasonable ambition. A man who did someone very valuable and was well rewarded and sees no point in being any better off than he is.

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