Post A5bII5PvSyGYsJcnIW by skipfordj@toot.cafe
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 (DIR) Post #A5bII53EpK7Njx0fw0 by ramona@todon.eu
       2021-03-24T19:56:59Z
       
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       here's some things that are bad and harmful and worthy an #uninStallman: - leveraging positions of power to make unwanted advances on women - misogyny - devil-advocating for pedophilia - prescribing people's pronouns and ethnic terms against their will - "stealing a kiss is not sexual assault and I refuse to acknowledge this concept" - being shitty and condescending to people online - being a libhere's a list of morally neutral things that even if you personally don't like, do not in themselves cause harm to anyone: - anything to do with his appearance, age or weight - having a demeanor or behaviour that feels odd or neurodiv - being bearded and other unusual sensibilities of personal grooming - eating toenails in public and other failures to see or understand social protocol a lot of good, sweet people do things like these and are not shitty. the things on the first list are unrelated to those in the second. mock the second list and you mock a ton of disabled etc. along with him.by all means go punch RMS, but punch up.
       
 (DIR) Post #A5bII5PvSyGYsJcnIW by skipfordj@toot.cafe
       2021-03-25T23:52:33Z
       
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       @ramona What does ‘being a lib’ mean in this context?
       
 (DIR) Post #A5bII5o21LY454u2s4 by ramona@todon.eu
       2021-03-26T06:36:05Z
       
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       @skipfordj liberalism is the underlying ideology of capitalism, and a liberal is someone who supports capitalism.in the context of U.S. English specifically, the word is usually said of people who vaguely recognise (some) of our systemic problems, like poverty or global warming etc., but doesn't see these as failures of the system. So liberals think that current institutions (private ownership of the means, government, prisons etc.) are valid, and reject direct action. A lib's solution to global warming is "let's all vote for better politicians".Imagine the institution of capitalism as that of slavery. Conservative capitalists think it should continue as-is. Liberal capitalists think the slavemasters should give the slaves better food and only whip them when they're being real bad slaves, and maybe we could have more *slavemistresses* too so things are fairer.
       
 (DIR) Post #A5bII6GOJuEXV2Ah4i by ramona@todon.eu
       2021-03-26T06:53:08Z
       
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       @skipfordj RMS is a curious case cos one could argue his critique of intellectual property leans leftist, but he somehow can't see that the exact same argument applies to all property. If the computational means of production should be in the commons, then all means of production should be. Here, let me:> If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the developer or “owner” of the program, that controls the program—and through it, exercises power over its users. A nonfree program is a yoke, an instrument of unjust power.put on the "They Live" glasses(*❛‿❛)>⌐■-■(⌐■-■)> If the workers don't control the means of production, the means control the workers. With private property, there's always some entity, the capitalist or "owner" of the means, that controls the means—and, through it, exercises power over its people. Private ownership of the means is a yoke...... at which point he'd be a leftist. But this is typical of libs; only seeing the tiny part that affects them individually.