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The answer to this should be a resounding "fuck off and don't come back". Open source is great because it is generally free of this pushy and disingenuously no
by tnone 9y ago
The answer to this should be a resounding "fuck off and don't come back".
Open source is great because it is generally free of this pushy and disingenuously non sense. Defection over cooperation leads to the detriment of the commons.
- s_kilk 9y agoAgreed, these Kite fuckers need to be purged.
- tnone 9y agoTelling them their strategy is unacceptable should be enough. Do you want to fire up the ovens too? Oh nevermind, I see you're a self declared "commie feminist", wrong end of the horse shoe, my bad.
- s_kilk 9y agoYou do know 'purge' has other meanings aside from genocide right? Or is it more convenient for your performative outrage if you pretend otherwise?
- koliber 9y agoCould you clarify which meaning you had in mind in your original usage?
- emodendroket 9y agoPresumably what was meant was kicking them out of the open source community and not killing them.
- s_kilk 9y agoIt's kind of amazing that this needs to be clarified. I'm starting to think that people around here are only familiar with the word as it relates to that dumb movie of the same name.
- emodendroket 9y agoI feel like a lot of posters will take the most uncharitable interpretation possible of your post, no matter how implausible, and then argue against it.
- koliber 9y agoIt needs to be clarified because "purge" seemed like a very charged word which was meant to convey more emotion than information. I interpreted it as a double-entendre. The original commenter defended their use of the word but only in a way to stir the situation more.
- emodendroket 9y agoWas going into personal attacks of the other poster and Horseshoe Theory supposed to be a more measured and informative take on the discussion at hand?
- koliber 9y agoNo.
- emodendroket 9y agoThen it is pretty hypocritical to criticize someone else for injecting "emotion rather than information" into the conversation, don't you think?
- logfromblammo 9y agoI read it as the word used to describe bulimic emesis. The open source community has ingested something undesirable, and now it needs to induce vomiting. We don't have to leap right to the edge of the mass graves whenever someone elects to use their thesaurus. Or would that actually be doubleplusgood, if people were to suffer ad hominem attacks based on their vocabulary choices? If you're headed to the bottom of the slippery slope anyway, you might as well grease yourself up and grab a boulder, right?
- Grue3 9y agoTo be fair, if one is a self-described "commie", there's only one possible interpretation. Maybe avoid associating yourself with genocidal regimes? Even as a joke (I sure hope it's a joke)? Maybe?
- InstanceOf 9y agoCommunism isn't genocidal. You should read up on what it actually is instead of relying on pro-capitalism propoganda. "Somebody died because Stalin/Mao" holds no candle compared to capitalism's "somebody died because housing, hospitalizing, and feeding the poor wasn't profitable".
- Touche 9y agoAh the old "there were no poor people before capitalism" mistruth again. You might want to research what Mao did before defending it in any why. But you're right, communism the idea is not genocidal, just all of its prominent leaders were. The fact that the ideology lends itself towards "there is only 1 truth" has nothing to do with that, I'm sure.
- s_kilk 9y ago> You might want to research what Mao did before defending it in any why. What do you think Capitalisms death-toll might be?
- InstanceOf 9y ago> there were no poor people before capitalism Definitely said nothing like that. In the US there are 6 unoccupied house for every homeless person. Somehow this is better because you found a way to decentralize the dictator and blame the victims?
- Touche 9y agoIt's better because fewer people are poor and the number continues to decline: https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty/ https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty/ I guess that's worse than the utopian ideal of there not being any poor people at all, but since I live in reality I'll go with capitalism.
- dang 9y agoPlease keep flamewars and online rage off Hacker News. We all know what the callout/shaming culture has wrought on the internet, and the idea of this place is to try to be different. You've perpetuated it in this thread as much as the other person whom you've scornfully criticized for it. That's the way these things usually go. As for 'purge', if you use a politically charged word like that next to a rage word like 'fuckers', the internet dynamics are predictable. Therefore, the fault for the flamewar about communism and genocide the thread ended up in lies largely with your comment. We can argue in general about words and contexts (and sure, you're not wrong), but the point is irrelevant because the current context has such well-known properties, like dynamite and dry forests.
- dang 9y agoYou started this flamewar and then went around the other side and started another. That sort of thing will get you banned here. So will generic ideological trolling, which you bring in here completely extraneously. Please don't do any of these things on HN again. Instead, if you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; otherwise please don't comment until you do.
- sctb 9y agoWe marked this flamewar subthread off topic.