2026-11-10 13:38 UTC
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@Kajika@lemmy.ml 2026-11-10 13:45
Agreed, this is a kind of hegemony where I grew up with the FSF and GNU being the good guys and the best we have so I can’t imaging better. To their credit they exist and their contribution is the best we have so far. Despite full of engineers the western communist movements can’t build anything. So W for the libertarians for that one. For now.
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@willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-11-11 00:11
As long as two conditions are fulfilled, and I look at the track record here, I don’t give a shit about personal background: The organization does work that is either democratic socialist or is compatible with democratic socialism. The organization readily hires, has no negative selectivity when it comes to promoting, respects, includes, enfranchises, cooperates with, actual known track record dem soc people and projects. And this is 100% in line with my approach in general. Outside software, I consider Islam and Christianity to have negative doctrinal elements, but I 100% support Zohran Mamdani, Abdul el Sayed, and James Talarico. I don’t put a lot of weight on personal background, and do my best to judge based on track record. I consider libertarianism and ancappism to be highly toxic, but as a background, it won’t detract from the good work the folks are doing. For all I know, without some weighty evidence, these “libertarians” are closeted democratic socialists. We can’t throw orgs like the FSF, that have done amazing good work, under the bus casually. But if a new org appears that is explicitely dem soc, and they do good work, I wencome that. There is plenty of space under the sun for many good things.