• Imhotep@lemmy.world
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      Lemmy was created by a tankie, many of whose opinions I abhor.

      As long as it’s FOSS and doesn’t inherently promote their beliefs, I will use the software.

      I agree it’s not great and I’d prefer if it weren’t made by imbeciles

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          Both facists and tankies have genocided disabled people and selectively killed anarchists.

          As a disabled anarchist, they end up seeming pretty similar to me.

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          TBH, it is very difficult to me differentiating between the different flavors of authoritarians.

          Maybe someone can make an easy to understand comparison matrix? You know, “Kills people because they have a different opinion.”, “Suppresses minorities.”, etc.

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            There’s basically ideologues versus hateful people versus indifferent sociopaths (overlap is common)

            I consider political ideologues and “technocrats” and extremely pedantic rule-following bureaucrats to be different flavors of ideologues (has a specific worldview they try to enforce / uphold)

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            Fascism, just like Communism or even a Dictatorships are not inherently bad.

            We as humans key in on the oppressive authoritarianism of them as the evil in the system.

            That’s why I’d recommend you lump them all together as “oppressive authoritarianism” until one of them proves us otherwise, and not to need to find the nuances between them to prove they’re bad.

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              Fascism, just like Communism or even a Dictatorships are not inherently bad

              No offense but what the fuck are you even saying

              Fascism is absolutely inherently bad, there is no removal of its evil, oppressive, and authoritarian traits after which anything is left.

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                In their defense, if everyone was perfect everything would be perfect.

                But you’re absolutely right. As long as humans are human there’s no way to separate human nature from authority. And as a result, any system that doesn’t strictly limit scope and authority is inherently bad.

      • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        i know there was a thing at the beginning of the project where they wrote a lot of the documentation with masculine pronouns (assuming the reader was male), and when they were asked to change that for gender neutral pronouns, they said no because “they don’t want politics in their project”

        beyond that however, idk if they eventually changed that or if they did other bad stuff

        edit: here is a source

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          Not really. A random person submitted a PR with just one pronoun change in the code comments (not the documentation, and not anything remotely visible to the end user).

          The developer rejected the (useless, in my opinion) PR.