Danielle ForéI started elementary (the open source project) as a high school student. When we were building the first versions of our desktop environment, one of our core developers was in high school and his parents accompanied him to the Ubuntu Developer Summit. How many things we have today wouldn’t exist if young people weren’t allowed to participate? The cost of not creating spaces that we can safely share with young people is too high
We’ve pushed young people completely out of our public physical spaces and now they’re getting pushed out of our digital spaces as well. Where are they supposed to go?
🔥 Mireille Sillander 🔥@danirabbit To the mines.
That's the plan, isn't it? Work the mines or get pregnant and stay home.
That's the plan, isn't it? Work the mines or get pregnant and stay home.
DianeAlso don't learn about racism, sexism, global warming or activism.
I think a big reason for the push to erase kids is Gretta Thunbergs activism because it threatened the oil industry
"The most common theme in the banned non-fiction books was activism and social movements."
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/07/banned-non-fiction-books-doubles
The Doctor@drwho @Mimesatwork @danirabbit
I mean peter theil was trying to argue Thunberg is the anti-christ.
So it's pretty clear she's deeply annoyed the rich.
@alienghic @Mimesatwork @danirabbit Very much so. Before the last assassination market (in Germany) got taken down earlier this year, she had a decent price on her head (about 11.8 BTC).
@drwho @alienghic @danirabbit What a colossal waste of time and energy to be this pressed of people, one person in particular, wanting a better world for everyone.
Imagine all the things that energy and money could do for the world
@Mimesatwork @alienghic @danirabbit The number of people who truly, deeply do not want a better world is distressing. And they're all-in on making sure that doesn't happen.
@drwho @Mimesatwork @danirabbit
There's a bunch of men who really love the idea of domination others and they're killing us all.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/22/masculinity-gender-climate-crisis
@alienghic @Mimesatwork @danirabbit That's why I occasionally say "passive aggressive depopulation strategy." Because that's what this is.
Until it's no longer passive, anyway.
Martin Taibr@drwho @alienghic @Mimesatwork @danirabbit
I know what you're trying to say but the issue with phrasing it like this in spaces filled with non-open-minded average people is that it sounds too much like a conspiracy theory.
At the same time I know a bunch of young people who say they're not gonna have kids because they don't want to bring another person into an unjust world. And a bunch of older people then complain about immigration being used to replace us.
I'm quite depressed and expect that unless the petrostates can be kicked out of power the future for most of us will look like life somewhere between gaza and ukraine.
Just the destruction will be more often due to angry weather and only occasionally be due to war.
@alienghic @martin_t Pretty much.
@martin_t @alienghic @Mimesatwork @danirabbit I know. I gave up talking about it a long time ago for that very reason.
Yes some things sound like conspiracies.
But sometimes we've got the court cases showing there were intentional conspiracies.
Straight up funding for a climate denial group was found as an outstanding debt for a bankrupt coal company.
The USA oil companies figured out global warming would happen and threaten catastrophic destruction between 1950 and 1970s.
Instead of doing anything to move off of oil the funded disinformation groups to block the transition off of oil
@alienghic @martin_t I know. I nearly took gigs working for two of them about fifteen years back.
@alienghic @martin_t Ye gods, talk about a crit fail.
They weren't really trying there, were they?
Yup, many are real. What I was trying to say is that to the average person, it doesn't matter what is true, what matters is whether it sounds true.
@drwho @alienghic @Mimesatwork @danirabbit
Anyway, their goal is not depopulation, that's just a side effect. Their goal is to have fun, which to them is competing with other rich and anti-social people who has a bigger number in his bank account.
The real issue is constantly letting anti-socials into positions of power instead of democratizing everything - not just governments but companies too - and with direct democracy, not this "vote for parties to control your life" appeasement.
Several of the people in the Trump administration definitely want black, brown, and trans people dead.
@alienghic No doubt but they're outliers. Issues with this phrasing:
1) you're using an extreme example to characterize a group, it distorts the discussion
2) people will believe you if they already want to but the average person will see a conspiracy theorist and ignore you.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and repeating that evidence for every new person who hears about it.
Actually killing people is outside the majority's Overton window (for now) so they won't (for now)
There will likely be millions dead due to the USAID cuts.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/07/01/nx-s1-5452513/trump-usaid-foreign-aid-deaths
Trump and his faction support Israel's ethnic cleansing in Gaza
Anti-vaxers are gutting american public health, undermining or even cancelling vaccines to fit with wellness influencer fantasies will also have a significant body count.
Anti-vax ideology led to measles vaccine refusal and several hundred documented deaths in the USA.
Gutting FEMA will lead to more deaths from disasters.
https://apnews.com/article/fema-letter-kristi-noem-disasters-836712f383a8b7d393c5ebf0f80143cf
Dozens have died in the ICE internment camps
ICE stopped paying for prisoner healthcare months ago.
There have been significant outbreaks of COVID, Measles, and Tuberculosis over the past few years in ICE interment camps.
Oh right, and ICE straight up shot people on camera.
@alienghic I wanted to say "killing people directly" but was out of characters. Gotta find a better instance.
To many people (sounds arrogant but the average person isn't very smart) there's a huge diff between lining people up next to a wall and shooting them vs putting them into a camp and killing them via malnutrition and disease.
> ICE straight up shot people on camera
Yup, and I hope the people responsible will be shot in return, though I have little hope of it happening intralegally.