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Screenshot of a Mastodon toot by @ebassi@mastodon.social:

The whole open source community loves Milkshake Laptops, a lovely laptop company that has ethical values! 5 seconds later We regret to inform you the laptop company stans fascists

    • Liz@midwest.socialEnglish
      3612·
      2 days ago

      I dunno man, people being furious about a very loose potential fascist association in an open source project while using a platform whose lead developer is a tankie. Kinda wild yelling at framework while supporting people who deny China’s human rights abuses.

        • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          3·
          23 hours ago

          Every time someone finds Lemmy for the first time, they have a chance to start with Lemmy.ml . It’s kind of like how reading used Harry Potter books and talking about the stories indirectly keep it relevant and enrich JK through mercy, licenses, etc…

      • Khrux@ttrpg.networkEnglish
        22·
        1 day ago

        Without arguing politics, the world is sliding very quickly towards facism and being on guard against it is incredibly important. I’m not buying a laptop and putting money in the pockets of someone who may then donate to or fund facism. None of that applies to a developer of a free open source software whose political ideal world is not rapidly approaching.

        • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          7·
          1 day ago

          Yeah: literally the only thing the developer of Lemmy gains from people using their software is kudos as a techie.

          Letting that person feel a bit better because of having another user is a universe away in terms of “supporting” them from actually funding them.

      • diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        82·
        1 day ago

        Did tankies bomb the abortion clinics or kill LGBTQ people? Maybe they lynched poc people too like fascists. idk, because they are literally the same.

          • diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            3·
            1 day ago

            Sorry for the confusion, I was talking about fascists. They are the ones bombing clinics. I dont know about the dude…

            • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
              5·
              23 hours ago

              And tankies supported rolling tanks into countries where the people wanted democracy, that’s where the name comes from.
              They still support authoritarian and fascist regimes committing war crimes and crimes against humanity, but because it ✨anti western fascism✨ it’s fine.

                • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                  1·
                  21 hours ago

                  Oh, good.
                  Your comments read, like you considered online tankies to be fine when they aren’t personally committing atrocities, while saying all fascists supporters are as bad as the people acting on that shit.

        • SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
          104·
          1 day ago

          Remind me again what Russia does to LGBTQ+ people. Or China?

          That’s who tankies support. Not so different, despite your plain strawmanning.

          Oh right, dbzer instance. Tankie in denial.

          • diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            32·
            1 day ago

            Tankies might support those countries but they dont do those acts themselves like fascists. They dont have same beliefs as fascists.

            My instance doesnt support any kind of imperialism. That includes china and russia. Do you know what anarchism is?