• eighty@lemmy.oneEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I can relate to the “how the fuck is being a concerned human being extreme/poltical?” energy in the post hard.

  • empireOfLove@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Linus gives exactly zero fucks about saying exactly what’s on his mind. And it’s almost always massively based. He’s always been great about that, we don’t deserve such a great mind.

  • seahorse [Ohio]@midwest.socialEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I half agree with his gun regulation stance. While ideally there would be more caution given to who owns guns that is unfortunately not the world americans have been living in the last 80 years or so. The fascists have guns, lots of them, and I’m not giving mine up while they have them.

    Everything else he said is 100% based.

    • Hexorg@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yeah the gun law regulators generally ignore the fact that everyone and their grandma already has guns. And those with guns are not willing to do trade in programs.

      I’d like to see better psych eval and requiring to re-license every so often. That should start steering the country in the right direction. Of course I don’t see this happening any time soon.

    • rakkhun@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I think fascists is going too far… they’re crazy and dumb, that’s it.

      • Venus@slrpnk.netEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Nah, they’re fascists. Maybe not every republican, but a solid 70% or so of them. And a decent chunk of democrats too.

  • bobslaede@feddit.dkEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I don’t see how his, very reasonable, views makes Linux itself (more?) political. What is the point of this post?

    • makingStuffForFun@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      The man can say what he wants and it’s nothing to do with Linux. And, his gun stance seems fair to me. I think he is an intelligent man, and I think he’s allowed to say his thoughts without some lame arse trying to tie his ideals to the OS. Move on, nothing to see here.

    • Lilium@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Well, there was drama here yesterday about Lemmy’s creator and maintainer being a tankie or whatever and one person trying to say “Lemmy bad” because of that.

      This post doesn’t seem to be here by coincidence.

      • clumsy_cat@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        1 year ago

        This post doesn’t seem to be here by coincidence.

        As the person who posted the original post: i don’t like/trust tankies and them being tankies is one of the reason i deleted my lemmy.ml account.

        My impression is that Linus also doesn’t speak in his post about tankies, but instead i think the word “communist” is equal to some general leftist.

        But i kind of agree, that this post can be seen as “in support of tankies”. hmm.

        my impression is, furthermoore: because the more tankie politics is on lemmygrad.ml, an instance which is easily blocked, it is not that bad / could be worse. I kind of hope instances like beehaw.org have the most users someday, because they are really awesome i think

  • GadgeteerZA@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Every human opinion is essentially “political” in some way, and is even interpreted differently be country? But open source software as a technology should not be taking any stance for or against gender, guns, rights, race, etc…

    • swnt@feddit.deEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Well, it’s not any official statement by the Linux Devs as a collective.

      It’s simply the personal opinion of Linus - who also happens to be the person who created Linux and still manages it.

  • Trash Panda@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Hard fisagree. Linux isn’t political. Everyone has an opinion, it’s obvious Linus would too. But I am pretty happy that his opinion is one I personally agree with. Linux can be uaed by anyone though, and nothing stops far right activists (terrorists) from making a distro, which would still be Linux. There’s a heavily religious distro too, but that doesn’t make Linux as a whole religious.

  • Choctaw@lemmy.radioEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Linus has a great mind for creating and managing a Linux kernel, but like actors and others he has no qualifications for his other opinions that nobody asked for. And instead of making a lucid argument, he name calls and is rude and actually makes a fool of himself. And guns are just a tool that any law abiding citizen should be able to purchase, and I’ve used one to defend myself when my front door was kicked in at 4:30am. With our wicked drug addicted society becoming more and more lawless, the need for personal firearms has never been greater. And we already have a ton of gun regulations, background checks…