Protest against the Omarchy/Omacom Foundation and the tech companies and executives funding far-right open source.

Protest against the Omarchy/Omacom Foundation and the tech companies and executives funding far-right open source.

  • friend_of_satan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    593·
    7 days ago

    That is a fantastic page, well cited.

    Also dang, I didn’t realize Jeff Geerling was so conservative about homosexuality and abortion. Pretty disappointing.

      • printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
        8·
        7 days ago

        Yeah. If there is somebody that was/is a part of my life, I vet them personally though, following both the links given in this page and “google” them separately. I want to make up my own mind.

      • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
        274·
        7 days ago

        Read the comment cited against Rossman and judge for yourself:

        Rossman's supposedly 'transphobic' comment

        I have my own idea of what a man or a woman is that I am going to guess is different from the politician in question. That being said, bringing this shit up all the time is absolutely counterproductive and useless.  Especially when it has nothing to do with the topic at hand.

        Imagine if I was talking to a politician who weighed 400 pounds and agreed with me on an issue that mattered. And let’s say that person did not like being referred to as fat because they do not think they are overweight. Would it be incumbent upon me to point out that they are fat? What benefit does that do for me? If this person is trying to help me not get screwed over by companies that lie and cheat to get laws passed in their favor so they can rob us blind, it’s not really important in that moment that I point out that that person is in fact obese. What their personal belief of “obesity” is is a useless discussion that has nothing to do with my own actions and identity.

        What people choose to do in their own homes or what they choose to call themselves is their business and is not something I care to discuss.

        What matters more than that to me is what people tell me I am not allowed to do in my own home with the products that I bought and paid for. That is an issue that is much more important to me.

        • Scrollone@feddit.it
          3·
          6 days ago

          I don’t see how his comment is transphobic. It just seems reasonable to me. Maybe he’s really transphobic, but his comment just says that we should care about the matter we’re talking about, not the identity of the person who’s talking

        • kestrel7_7@lemmy.world
          21·
          6 days ago

          Yeah that’s pretty transphobic, and it’s weird that he felt the need to make that long of a statement when he could have just said the last bit.

        • verily@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          25·
          7 days ago

          I don’t think it’s possible to argue Rossman isn’t some degree of personally transphobic (for context, his video is about Brianna Titone, who is the first openly transgender state legislator elected in Colorado, and he is clearly referencing some degree of disagreement with her identity).

          That much being said, he’s highlighting, to conservatives in his own audience, the fact that he wants to be both respectful and actually look beyond those personal beliefs to affect positive change. And based on his larger corpus of work, I don’t think that’s dishonest in any way.

          Rossman doesn’t use his influence to lobby against trans rights. I don’t even think anybody would have known he had some personal issues until he mentioned them in a specific example that encourages people to set their own issues aside, for a positive cause.

          • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
            8·
            7 days ago

            Precisely. Showing a basic level of respect to work together doesn’t require agreeing on anything.

        • OilyArena@lemmy.ml
          106·
          7 days ago

          I read that as “I don’t accept trans peoples gender, but will act like I do if it benefits me or my cause”, is there another interpretation I’m missing?

          • Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            15·
            7 days ago

            it’s more “i won’t argue or discuss it at all because it has nothing to do with me or my cause”, not do’s or don’t

          • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
            74·
            7 days ago

            No, he’s not one to pretend, he’s saying that what he or anyone else thinks about trans people just not relevant to him in virtually everything he does, fixing devices or supporting or rallying against a trans politicians’ position on other issues like technology.

            To give a separate example, does Alice Weidel’s sexual orientation have any relevance to your opinion of the German right-wing fascist party leader? No, it’s similarly irrelevant, and I can make assumptions, but you don’t have to tell me you support or oppose gay marriage to know that.

            • orc girly@lemmy.ml
              94·
              7 days ago

              Which is true, but his opinions are still transphobic lol. I don’t hate the guy for this, but let’s not pretend he’s not transphobic.

              • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
                61·
                7 days ago

                Yeah I can agree he has transphobic opinions, but they seem to come from a place of ignorance rather than hate because it’s not worth spending his time over.

                • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
                  6·
                  7 days ago

                  That’s the part I don’t get, is there worse then the quoted text that they said or?

                  Pretty benign comment imo

    • SkyNTP@lemmy.ml
      922·
      7 days ago

      I don’t know about the sources. If you read some of the sources, for example DHH’s own words in his blog posts, while you find conservative grievances which is certainly fair game for disagreement, there are no smoking guns of far right behaviour.

      The comparison of omarchy’s design philosophy is particularly egregious. The philosophy is opinionated software. What does consuming a product without being in personal control of every single detail have to do with politics?

        • refalo@programming.dev
          23·
          6 days ago

          This is what he actually said:

          That frustration was on wide display in Tommy Robinson’s march yesterday.

          He didn’t even say anything about Tommy Robinson or his politics, he was talking about a march.

          Regardless of anything else DHH said or how you feel about it, I have not seen him voice any support for Robinson.

          • Kajika@lemmy.ml
            21·
            5 days ago

            the amount of lies is interesting from your part.

            Let’s go to the awfully fascist page https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64 , search for “Robinson” and… 2 occurrences. the first being what you quoted* (“this frustration” referring to

            So I get the frustration that many Brits have with the way mass immigration has changed the culture and makeup of not just London, but their whole country.

            Then the second times shows

            Which brings us back to Robinson’s powerful march yesterday. The banner said “March for Freedom”, and focused as much on that now distant-to-the-Brits concept of free speech, as it did on restoring national pride.

            And for good reason! The totalitarian descent into censorious darkness in Britain has been as swift as its demographic shift. […]

            So… he didn’t say anything about Robinson’s politics? You surely see only what you want.