Linux communities beware of #PewDiePie fans

Regardless of PewDiePie’s personal #politics (which clearly, at the very least are problematic), it is fairly well known by anyone who has been following him for any number of years that the vast majority of his fan base are enthusiastic fascists.

Now #PewDiePie , who’s content centers around PC gaming and Windows, has decided to switch to #Linux and published a video encouraging his followers to do the same. This means a very large number of his #fascist fan base is going to be switching to Linux.

Now many Linux communities are going to be forced to more explicitly choose their politics. Like the parable of the Nazi bar, if the community remains politically neutral, it will become fascist in short order.

A few things to be wary of:

• People asking you not to be “too political” or to “focus on the technology, not the politics” is a classic and highly effective fascist ruse to get moderators to lighten up on fascist elements posting in their community.
• People complaining about free speech rights. The #Internet and the #Fediverse is already a domain where people can speak freely about their politics by running their own server and building their own community with few to no government constraints. You don’t need to compromise on whether fascists have the right to free speech in your community.
• Arguments over your code of conduct (CC) and “safe spaces.” Keep them up-to-date. Research other people’s CCs, learn about the history of why these CCs came to be, learn about what the function of each clause of the code is included and phrased the way it is. These were usually designed to make explicit the fact that a community wants to be a safe space where underprivileged people can feel comfortable expressing themselves, and it is very easy to make people afraid to express themselves. Fascists understand these CCs and the concept of “safe spaces” were explicitly designed to exclude them, and often attack these ideas.

Հիշում եմ և պահանջում is a phrase that echoes louder every year on April 24th, Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.

This is my first time posting about this tragedy, but every child in Los Angeles has grown up knowing of the 1.5 million Armenians systematically exterminated by the Ottoman Empire.

In a time when my own country is increasingly complicit in enabling atrocities abroad, and when my president refused today to call genocide what it is, I am struggling more than ever with navigating the dichotomy of living in the liberal capital of a fascist autocracy.

Հիշում եմ և պահանջում means “I remember and I demand”, and it feels now like something I have to share. Because recognition is not just about the past-- it's about what we tolerate in the present.

History denied is history repeated, and I feel the weight of everything I was taught in history class growing up repeating itself now.

For the lost. For the survivors. For those still fighting to be seen.

Հիշում եմ և պահանջում

#ՀիշումԷմևՊահանջում #HišowmEmEwPahanǰowm #IRememberAndIDemand #NeverAgain #ՄեծԵղեռնիԶոհերիՀշատակիՕր #MeçEġeṙniZoheriHišatakiÒr #ArmenianGenocideRemembranceDay #Montebello #LosAngeles #California #Photo #Photography #Politics #USPol #USPolitics

As a part of this socially-asocial #Fediverse network I would like to talk to you on the other side of the ocean.

I rarely write posts in #English and I only have very few followers that are not #Czech or #Slovakian, so I'm not sure if this ever reaches my target audience of this post - the #USA citizens.

I am seriously concerned about what is happening lately with your country, who was supposed to be (or was acting like) a #democracy beacon. Yet, somehow you managed to reach the point, where #president, who most of you (!) elected is felon, who pardons criminals and does pretty rude political statements to country, who is losing lives of it's citizens only because they have chosen the path of being a #free nation.

As a person from central #EU I must admit this is seriously hard to watch as I expected your society to be #freedom and #liberty friendly and yet I see your president fueling #propaganda from #Russia and bullying president of #Ukraine.

I do not think this is a great way to #StopWar - this is a way to lose it. I'm hell-of-a-sure that befriending pretty much dictator of #Russia while his propagandists talks about nuking Washington is not a good idea, but somehow your president believes it is.

Please reconsider and act, this is not funny and people are dying. Your voices need to be heard or somehow you might find out you live in country you never imagined...

#politics #USpol

Elon Musks racks in $8 millions a day of government money - Ploud Video France

#politics #USA #corruption #Musk #MAGA #DOGE

I don’t think I have any MAGA in my network but hopefully this post will reach some because I’m DYING to read what they think about this. 😂

Elon Musk, the self-proclaimed slasher of government waste, is pocketing a cool $8 million every single day from federal contracts. Yes, you read that right. While preaching fiscal responsibility, Musk’s companies, notably SpaceX and Tesla, are raking in taxpayer dollars like it’s a Black Friday sale.

In a recent House hearing, Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) didn’t mince words: “How much does Elon Musk make from the government a day? $8 million.” Meanwhile, seniors on Social Security are scraping by on $65 a day. Priorities, am I right?

But wait, there’s more! Musk’s latest venture, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), is on a mission to cut federal spending. And by “cut,” we mean slashing funds for FEMA’s migrant assistance and axing diversity training programs. All while his companies continue to secure billion-dollar contracts. Talk about having your cake and eating it too.

So, as Musk and his cronies preach about tightening belts and eliminating waste, just remember where those “savings” are going. Straight into the pockets of the world’s richest man. Efficiency never looked so profitable.

https://video.ploud.fr/w/7Qh3V7VY5ZR6QTJ2cPZiiR

I don’t think I have any MAGA in my network but hopefully this post will reach some because I’m DYING to read what they think about this. 😂

Elon Musk, the self-proclaimed slasher of government waste, is pocketing a cool $8 million every single day from federal contracts. Yes, you read that right. While preaching fiscal responsibility, Musk’s companies, notably SpaceX and Tesla, are raking in taxpayer dollars like it’s a Black Friday sale.

In a recent House hearing, Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) didn’t mince words: “How much does Elon Musk make from the government a day? $8 million.” Meanwhile, seniors on Social Security are scraping by on $65 a day. Priorities, am I right?

But wait, there’s more! Musk’s latest venture, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), is on a mission to cut federal spending. And by “cut,” we mean slashing funds for FEMA’s migrant assistance and axing diversity training programs. All while his companies continue to secure billion-dollar contracts. Talk about having your cake and eating it too.

So, as Musk and his cronies preach about tightening belts and eliminating waste, just remember where those “savings” are going. Straight into the pockets of the world’s richest man. Efficiency never looked so profitable.