Linux is no longer just a question of privacy, it’s political now.

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Puzzled_Hamster58@reddit

lol

Are you gonna throw away your intel cpu and Nividia gpu’s?

You know those corps also fund Linux….

You know Linux is used on a lot of government systems and control things on the back end .

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Specialist-Delay-199@reddit

People just love to make themselves sound epic and revolutionary lol bet if I asked OP to define fascism he'd say dumbfounded

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MorrisRF@reddit (OP)

Fascism is a oppressive form of government run by a dictator.

trump is sending masked men to kidnap people on the streets without trial, sending the army to arrest people on demonstrations and much much more

say what you will the trump administration is fascist

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Puzzled_Hamster58@reddit

Words have meaning, trump is not a fascist. When did we become a single party state? Trump is not a dictator.

Masked men to kidnap people on the streets with out trial. Let’s get some facts straight. They are illegally In the country, he has not change any laws. If you are suspected of being a person who committed a crime you can be detained. that’s what the jump out boys are doing. Next step are you a legal citizen no - you get deported there is no trial cause guess what it’s not subjective . Your a citizen or have other legal reason to be in the country . If you don’t you get deported. That’s how every country works. That’s how it’s been for along time here . Are you a legal citizen, yes. Do you have any open warrants , or suspected in other crimes if no your released. if your a citizen and had any rights violated while your detained you can sue and you will win. Why no outrage under Obama and the 3.2 million he deported . Or every other democrat. Why was it not racist for bill or Hillary Clinton to talk about removing illegals etc ? But trump saying word for word the same thing is? Why no outrage for the children in cages photos under Obama? Before you say trump is only going after brown people. One, he’s not . You have no idea how many Chinese and middle eastern and other races have been round up. I’d bet 100$ you have no idea at all, cause the news you read dosent tell you.

Trump sending army to arrest protesters lol…… They are the national guard. It’s because they are break laws and interfering with federal agents and the local police for the most part are not doing any thing about it. That is 100% a thing they can have done . They are not just blindly arresting protesters lol. They are arresting ones who are breaking laws and can be charged with acts of terror also. Yes many of those “protesters” are committing acts of terror. there is a difference between chanting and holding a signing and throwing a bomb.

Let me guess you where happy people started to fire bomb Tesla dealerships, cause they cut funding to us aid and you have no idea majority of what us aid did was covert ops and propaganda. And you just think it’s a us funding aid org…. It’s not. Trying to start a twitter clone in Cuba to start an anti communist revolution is one thing they have done , not to mention all the propaganda media companies they start and fund around the world.

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MorrisRF@reddit (OP)

The ICE arrests people based on racial profiling wich means legals often get arrested and in some cases even deported without a trial

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Specialist-Delay-199@reddit

Just like I guessed, you don't know what you're talking about. You're much better off posting your hyprland ricings with thigh socks on r/unixporn because you lack any political knowledge.

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MorrisRF@reddit (OP)

great you said your opinion but a argument is more than just a opinion, you‘re supposed to prove your point or correct me otherwise you’re just yelling a claim in the void

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Specialist-Delay-199@reddit

Yeah no it's not an opinion and you're the one who uses words without knowing their meaning. Maybe go open a dictionary and teach yourself the very same words you're using dumbass?

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MorrisRF@reddit (OP)

The literal definition of fascim is a oppressive form of government run by a dictator, do a 1:1 description of the current US government.

but I do realize that a discussion with you is pointless since you seem to refuse to even consider your opinion

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Puzzled_Hamster58@reddit

That’s not fascim. Might want to look up what it means before you claim it is.

Even by your poor definition Biden admin was more fascist then trump since he used government orgs to silence people, and news that made him look bad.

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MorrisRF@reddit (OP)

The US government being fascist isn’t exactly a new thing

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Specialist-Delay-199@reddit

Go do your homework lmao you've never seen a real dictatorship

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MorrisRF@reddit (OP)

do you have nothing better to do right now than to insult me because I do not share your opinion on politics? get a life man

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Puzzled_Hamster58@reddit

You’re the one insult dude people.
You have made no argument other then repeat buzzwords and miss used words.

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Specialist-Delay-199@reddit

Doing your homework is not insulting but once again I'm not sharing any opinions try using the dictionary for once

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Puzzled_Hamster58@reddit

You made no argument… you repeated buzz word talking points…

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Puzzled_Hamster58@reddit

I bet the dude wears a Che shirt and has no clue he’s a racist homophobe and thinks he’s this amazing freedom fighter

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HamzaHan38@reddit

Almost completely degoogled and switched to Linux for these reasons amongst others. I hope more people realise that they CAN in fact get rid of these nazi companies.

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XD7006@reddit

Reddit runs on google web services. Why are you still using reddit, you "nazi"?

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HamzaHan38@reddit

This is such a non argument. So because I can't stop using 1 bad service, I should just say fuck it and continue using all the others? That's the same mentality as "oh I ate 1 extra cookie today, I guess I'll stop dieting".

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XD7006@reddit

Dude explicitly mentioned google as being one of the evil companies. Reddit uses google cloud services. Put two and two together.

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MorrisRF@reddit (OP)

same

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XD7006@reddit

If you care so much, time for you to delete your reddit account, as it uses Google's cloud platform.

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MorrisRF@reddit (OP)

oh? That’s interesting I didn’t know that. I‘ll investigate that

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topcat5@reddit

Stick to your beliefs, delete your reddit account. Everyone here will cheer your sacrifice.

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MorrisRF@reddit (OP)

you missed the point

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topcat5@reddit

The point is obvious. You're OK with it when it's something you want.

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MorrisRF@reddit (OP)

what I meant is that idc if people cheer, thats not the point

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XD7006@reddit

Go on, do it.

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MorrisRF@reddit (OP)

I might

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XD7006@reddit

All of us are waiting mate. Stick to your beliefs if you care.

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then_jay_died@reddit

Yes. Linux has famously never had any racist or sexist developers.

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MorrisRF@reddit (OP)

first of all while racism and sexism are obviously very bad things that wasn’t my point and secondly linux being open source and many distros means you can choose wich distro and dev team you want to use.

additionally you are not giving them money or data unless you donate to them

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then_jay_died@reddit

I suppose your final sentence just rubbed me the wrong way.

"degoogling and switching to linux is necessary if you're not a fascist that supports genocide."

cos lots of people can't do these thing for multitudes of reasons but you're happy to call them genocide supporting fascists. Seems your a troll or a child.

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MorrisRF@reddit (OP)

I agree I should have worded it better, I meant people that have to option to do it but are to lazy to do it because „its not important“ especially with how easy it is nowadays

I know quite a few.

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then_jay_died@reddit

Def a child. Not a troll. Have nice day kiddo. Good luck with your endeavors.

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TinyPanda3@reddit

I agree with your sentiment, however targeted boycotts are always the most effective way of dealing with these things. I encourage you to read some material from the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions group, but the TLDR is that Microsoft is an effective monopoly in terms of Windows PCs, and we should target specific branches of Microsoft (Xbox in this case) to make them feel pain because realistically you can't ask an office worker to drop windows or other ms products. This is a proven tactic used against south African apartheid

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Specialist-Delay-199@reddit

Windows is totally replaceable in the office sector governments are already getting rid of it

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TinyPanda3@reddit

We can hope eventually this becomes the case but hope is not the basis for an argument. Microsoft has such power inside the American government I'm fairly certain the only way to decouple the two is violent revolution lmao.

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Specialist-Delay-199@reddit

Asking for a violent revolution over a simple monopoly case is a level of idiocy only terrorists can match. What do you guys take?

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TinyPanda3@reddit

Nobody is asking for violent revolution over a simple monopoly case, I'm making the point that Microsoft and the American government are in an incestuous and definitionally fascist relationship. Your government is kidnapping grandmas and child cancer patients with the help of tech giants like Google and Microsoft, wake tf up.

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Specialist-Delay-199@reddit

Oh no not my government that's your problem we're civilized not chronically online people here in Europe

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MorrisRF@reddit (OP)

The USA is the biggest western superpower, that they have a fascist government is unfortunately very much our problem

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Specialist-Delay-199@reddit

Go outside and touch grass bro. You're not the guy and you won't be the next Lenin.

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MorrisRF@reddit (OP)

its a wonder how they managed to brainwash people so luch

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Specialist-Delay-199@reddit

They started off by giving us dictionaries so we can know the meanings of the words "fascism", "opinion", "monopoly" and more that you probably repeat without understanding because you're a dumbass

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MorrisRF@reddit (OP)

Ok continue this pointless discussion if you want I‘m going to go do something like having a life now

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TinyPanda3@reddit

Cant a boy dream?

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TinyPanda3@reddit

Could have fooled me with that braindead take

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aurelienrichard@reddit

it's political now. Always has been.

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MorrisRF@reddit (OP)

true but its more important now

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SuperSathanas@reddit

You're supposed to be doing your algebra homework.

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MorrisRF@reddit (OP)

what?

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Specialist-Delay-199@reddit

touch grass weirdo the US runs on Linux just like every other criminal government

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MorrisRF@reddit (OP)

so? linux is free to use for anyone but they don’t actively support the fascist government, linus didn’t gift trump a hold statue and ate dinner with him kissing his ass

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Specialist-Delay-199@reddit

The vast majority of Linux kernel code is contributed by those corporations you're mentioned. So you're a hypocrite if you use Linux anyways. Shut up and go do something else.

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XD7006@reddit

Microsoft is a major contributor to the Linux Kernel. Delete your OS if you care so much.

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RB5Network@reddit

Very true. I genuinely get extremely irritated by people who continually look at privacy, security, even "freedom" as some isolated, neutral thing that isn't political at all. The origins of Linux and open source has ALWAYS been a political project and it's a project that is inherently anti-reactionary and against gross, far-right authoritarian, heirarchical belief systems.

He does a lot of good, and he's a great advocate for many things in this space, but Louis Rossman encompasses this the "non-political open source privacy and tech advocate" archetype. The guy literally went on stage with Curtis Yarvin during a FUTO seminar about technology. (For reference, Curtis Yarvin is a self avowed fascist, monarchist, and stupidly believes black people are inherently lower IQ.)

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Specialist-Delay-199@reddit

GNU is entirely a reactionary project of an a*tist who wants to do whatever the fuck he wants with the source code. You know nothing about the history of Linux or half the words you're using, you're just repeating whatever you hear on your news outlet.

I censored the adjective because Reddit thinks I'm insulting people with that condition

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ChibaCityStatic@reddit

What's this guy going to do when I tell him the top contributors to the Linux kernel include Google, Microsoft, Oracle and Huawei. One of those is literally a company that provides software to facilitate mass surveillance state in a particular country starting with the letter C.

Where do people like you come from and why are you so cringe?

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True-Trip-5308@reddit

Sorry but i am kinda fascist, what the terrorists thinks will happen if they kick the nest wasps.

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