Linus, creator of Linux, being โ€œwokeโ€ as heck. Win.

Linky: https://mastodon.social/@torvalds@social.kernel.org/110504868267735370

Respect to Linus for the stance. Bigots have no place in any of my communities either.

@gamingonlinux Completely true, "woke" is completely meaningless apart from "I don't like it"
@kt_02 @gamingonlinux can't agree more than this. Like, do you know what happen when the game Deathloop came out? Random conservative started calling it "woke game". Why? Because the protagonist is a black male. Not like, I don't know, a black non-binary pansexual poly autistic protagonist, no, a black person. What the fuck?
@wrath @gamingonlinux There have been a few instances where people throwing around "woke" were asked what it meant and had no idea how to respond. It really is just a dog whistle for horrid people. Sucks that it is what it is...
@gamingonlinux and I wanted to read the original post - โ€žuser not foundโ€œ ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜ญ
@maschinentraum @gamingonlinux the person Linus is replying to is from poa st, an instance defederated by basically everyone.
@maschinentraum @gamingonlinux that user is on an instance that is blocked from most instances
@gamingonlinux I can't tell if that thread is real or what. My brain...

@gamingonlinux So, anybody who disagrees with the government on anything should be excluded from society?

Why not exclude the mass murderers of the government from society instead?

@gamingonlinux Generally, people accuse anybody who disagrees with the government on anything "bigots".

For example, Trudeau accused those who did not want to be forced to participate in the clinical trials of the experimental vaccine bigots, misogynists, and nazis.

It's just a term of abuse now.

@Nobody @gamingonlinux Yeah, no. Trudeau didn't say that or anything remotely similar, and there were no forced vaccine trials in Canada (or anywhere else).

But you've decided that following authoritarian conservatives in Texas and Florida is the "libertarian" position so I'm going to guess that you're one of those guys who is upset that they get called a bigot for "disagreeing with the government" about desegregation.

@opendna @gamingonlinux

The government deprived people of their basic human right to work ( survive ) if they refused to be subjects in the vaccine experiment.

You know the one ... the one that does not stop the spread, does not prevent you from contracting the virus, does not prevent you from dying of it, but does cause myocarditis.

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@opendna @gamingonlinux

https://social.freetalklive.com/@FTL_Ian/110509576227881079

I win! First @ftl host to be reported by a karen on another server!

I think I get a bonus for that!

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Congrats to @Nobody for being the first host FTL to be reported by some whiner from another Mastodon server at "mastodon.world". Sadly, Mastodon does not identify the snitches, just their server and what they said, in this case, "anti vaxx". The post: https://social.freetalklive.com/@Nobody/110508123067615546

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@Nobody @gamingonlinux I literaly never ever heard anyone make use of the word "biggot" under that definition.

@azmar @gamingonlinux

Their lies would lose their power if they admitted to their criteria.

@Nobody Maybe โ€“ just maybe โ€“ gaming is talking about actual bigots? I mean, at least give them a chance to say something silly before you lose your chill.

If I say "Nazis, I hate these guys" maybe I'm just a Harrison Ford fan? Or maybe I think everyone who voted for Trump is a Nazi because I like cheap tricks like that kind of hyperbolic rhetoric. See, you don't know until I say something more specific, right?

@Nobody @gamingonlinux Someday I will see a "Libertarian" who does not side with book bans, seizing children from loving families, and the state asserting police power over women's reproducive processes against their wishes.

Today is not that day.

@Nobody @gamingonlinux Libertarian in PFP, opinion discarded

@jdst258 @gamingonlinux

As you should, if you are a totalitarian, of either the Fascist or Communist variety.

If you think the world should be composed of masters and slaves, you are evil, and I don't want you around.

May you be ruled by monsters just like you.

@Nobody @gamingonlinux Sounding like the Bioshock guy probably isnโ€™t getting you a lot of converts

@jdst258 @gamingonlinux

It was what it is.

Your solution to every problem is brute force and violence.

If you support mass murder, you are a bad person.

And mass murder is the bread and butter of government. Without mass murder, or the threat of mass murder, they couldn't get people to pay for their projects ... which are, for the most part, wars ... in other words, more mass murder.

Enjoy being a psychopath.

@Nobody @gamingonlinux Iโ€™m not sure if youโ€™re aware, but the Linux kernel is not actually a government agency

@timmy @gamingonlinux

I have been hacking Linux since the 1990's.

The point is that the government and their stenographers in the media ... the Establishment, we used to call it ... now call all dissent racism.

Even dissenting against Nazi projects like forcing unwilling people to participate in medical experiments.

@Nobody @gamingonlinux who in this scenario is doing this? Linus Torvalds? GamingOnLinux? Who are you mad at?

@timmy @gamingonlinux It is being done all over.

First they justify violence against Nazis ... then they define everybody who disagrees with them as Nazis. If you have not noticed, open your eyes and pay attention.

@Nobody @gamingonlinux can you define โ€œtheyโ€ as you use it here?

@timmy @gamingonlinux

Establishment loving sheep.

@Nobody @gamingonlinux take a look at yourself, youโ€™re flying off the handle because Linus Torvalds said heโ€™s fine with some really uncontroversial things. You then brought up โ€œnazi medical experimentsโ€ which I assume is something about the Covid vaccine, which no one else brought up. Youโ€™re the one uncritically buying into an ideology here

@timmy @gamingonlinux

Yes, the ideology of freedom is very important.

That's why I moved to New Hampshire. Their motto is "Live Free or Die'.

Comes from a quote: "Live Free or Die; Death is Not the Worst of Evils".

What is the worst of evils?

Slavery is the worst of evils.

By the way, one does not "uncritically" break with the brainwashing of the establishment. One breaks with the brainwashing of the establishment by being critical.

@timmy @gamingonlinux

Also, one does not simply walk into Mordor.

@Nobody Iโ€™m not sure what your great rebellion is, so far youโ€™ve gotten red, mad, and nude online over Linus expressing his opinion. What freedom is that?
@timmy @Nobody dude's PFP has the word libertarian in it, I think we can all make a few assumptions just based off that

@Leroy @timmy

We can assume that I do not go along with the crowd, and that I think that giving one corporation a licence to kill, making it answerable only to itself, and allowing it to force unwilling people to buy it's worthless products through violence and threats of violence.

@Nobody @timmy you never finished your thought there. Also, no that's not the list of pretty reasonable assumptions people make about libertarians

@Leroy @timmy

Those are the reasonable ones.

But the psychopaths who run the government and the public schools encourage you to make many unreasonable ones.

They can't let you think that there is actually an alterantive to being owned by the mass murdering psychopaths who murdered a million people in Iraq, and didn't have the decency to say "OOOps, our bad!".

@Nobody @timmy I think most reasonable people don't want anything to do with the US government/military without having to be libertarians.

@Leroy @timmy

It's not just the US government. Every government is murderous psychopaths.

That's why they chose a business where you can threaten violence against those who refuse to pay for your mass murder sprees.

And a government that does not enslave and murder is no government at all.

@Nobody @timmy you're not mad at governments you're mad at capitalism

@Leroy @timmy

Capitalism is just free markets and the right to own property, by my definition.

I am mad at the government, which is that organization which claims a monopoly on the use of force in any given jurisdiction, and enforces that monopoly through terrorism.

@Nobody @timmy your definition is entirely wrong then

You're correct about monopoly on violence being bad, but your definition of capitalism is completely wrong

@Leroy @timmy

If somebody is NOT a psychopath, they produce things that people want, and sell their product to the people who want it ... and if somebody refuses to buy, they just walk away.

Only governments and mafias will burn down your house ( or, as they did in my case, drive a tank into it ) because you don't want their product and won't pay for it. Everybody else goes and finds a willing buyer or finds something else to produce.

@timmy He has every right to express his opinion, as do you, and as do I.

That's the great thing about freedom.

It offers questions that can't be answered, not answers that can't be questioned.

@Nobody @timmy @gamingonlinux You're not being critical, you are just latching onto a brainless ideology and screaming at those that don't agree. The vaccination for covid is not Nazi medical experimentation, the vaccination method has been in development since the 90's and has been used to create an Ebola vaccination around a decade ago. There have been clinical trials, the vaccinations passed, and governments on the Federal, State/Provincial level have the right to mandate it as a matter of public health.

Questioning authority or rules or concepts is not wrong. The problem is when the answer is something you don't like and you fly off the handle because of it.

@Nobody @timmy @gamingonlinux you don't have to justify violence against Nazis, they're Nazis. If you're worried about being labeled a Nazi that says a lot more about you than it does about the people handing out the label

@gamingonlinux the replies are filled with sad little people complaining that he got weak or some shit.

Looks like he struck a nerve. The right one

@gamingonlinux That man has a way with words. Succint and punchy.

@gamingonlinux Maybe i'm going to repeat stuff everyone already knows here, but what happens when those folks aren't able to live their lives in peace as who they truly are is devastating (it's no surprise marginalized people have a way higher rate of suicide).

They're as good folks as anyone else, so making them feel miserable and ruining their lives every single day is more than despicable.

You don't have to understand it really, you just have to choose to not be a moron towards other people.

Linus gets it right.

@cmdrDiscoCat @gamingonlinux Consider the possibility that bad stuff you imagine is only half as bad as what they hope to impose.

I don't think they're just assholes. They're evil.

@gamingonlinux seeing the typical Torvalds beat down reply towards bigots is strangely satisfying