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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
    3611·
    1 day 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·
        15 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
      21·
      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·
        21 hours 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
      72·
      21 hours 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
          2·
          17 hours 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·
            16 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·
                14 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·
        21 hours 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·
          21 hours 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?