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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) by doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

Like y'all keep posting about it, praising it, giving it free advertisement, and what not.

But the dev is a fascist, the discord server is a fascist bar, and the project thus is fascist.

I've met people who were harassed, I browsed through now deleted messages of Vaxry using slurrs and more.

So I wonder is if the people who post constantly about it know and are complicit, or just don't know and would act otherwise?

It gets tiring to see the project be given "fame" when I know the roots of the plants are founded in toxicity & abuse.

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[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fixed that, you are correct.

Still, I don't care if they are gay or straight communist or fascist, black yellow white or gray. Software is a tool and its apolitical.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fascism isnt a political view either. Conservatism is a political view. It also cant be viewed the same as communism or socialism. One is based on feeding, housing and helping everyone while the other is tied to discriminating, abusing and even killing people of different ethnicity and ability.

[–] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Fascism isnt a political view either

uhhhh no? its authoritarian capitalism. Mussolini called it a merger of the corporation and the state, and he's the guy who started it

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 5 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Mussolini called it a merger of the corporation and the state, and he’s the guy who started it

That's not what corporatism is, it's a different meaning of the word "corporation".

You're absolutely correct that fascism is an illiberal capitalist ideology, but Mussolini framed their movement as pro-labour, not pro-capitalist. We must learn to recognize Classical Fascism's class-collaborationist hypothesis as flawed and pro-capitalist, especially since this rhetoric is often echoed in social democracy.