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Aw, is someone sad that a nonprofit won't spend their own money to host shitty pump-and-dump tools destroying the environment? Little pissbaby need a minute to compose themself?
Edit: By the way, speaking of fascism, OP...
Edit 2: Just want to say I find it immensely funny that the two people in this thread bitching about this democratic decision and calling it "fascist" and "authoritarian", respectively, have posted an image of Germany captioned "The aggressor nation?" and knowingly, intentionally continue to fund neo-Nazis in Sweden.
It's always projection from the "woke moralists!!" crowd.
Am I understanding you correctly that you're accusing anyone who continues to use Mullvad as someone who supports neo-Nazis in Sweden?
If you know about this and continue to pay for it given viable alternatives, yes, you knowingly, willingly are. They wrote a whole spiel justifying it, so I'm going to point it out.
Excellent research! Thank you for sharing this. It's good to know.
I cannot speak for OP but you have intentionally mischaracterized my position on another matter instead of discussing and addressing the criticism leveled against Codeberg's decision here and broader culture of authoritarian behaviour happening within the left.
I am myself left wing, its a mischaracterization to say "knowingly, intentionally continue to fund neo-Nazis in Sweden". Because first of all, I didn't know. Secondly, if you read what I actually wrote I say I do not approve of the action by co-owner of Mullvad and that his actions to not represent the the entirety of the organization.
Furthermore, in your attempt at ad-hominem, you selectively cherry pick a nuance take on the Mullvad situation where I am rightfully concerned about the loss of a much needed force in the sphere of digital rights and online privacy. And then neglect to highlight a post I made before where I am critical of emerging far-right fascism and the neoliberalism that fuels it.
My initial critisicm of the left and the decision by Codeberg is something you are welcome to disagree with. But you can do so addressing the issue at hand and not resorting to misrepresentation and emotive language.
By acting bad faith you have successfully derailed the conversation as such that I have had to defend myself. I remind you of what Jean-Paul Sarte wrote regarding fascists:
Don't claim to be an anti-fascist while employing the methodology of fascists.
And don't promote anti-intellectualism and use emotive language to try enforce ideological conformity on the left and claim you are not an authoritarian.
I am entitled to my dissenting opinion and in any healthy community it would be welcomed. Again you can disagree but your behaviour and words are toxic and only serve to fracture the left.
That's a big wall of text that never gets around to supporting your claim.
What out-group is punished for their identity on Codeberg? Because a cryptocurrency developer is allowed to host other projects there.
Calling community rules about what can be hosted on their platform fascism is absurd. Every platform does that, community or commercial platforms alike. You seem to care about fascism but you are watering the term down and that is dangerous.
Look, I have not called anyone a fascist.
My comment was using this action by codeberg to highlight what I feel is growing authoritarianism within the left.
The in-group is people who belong to the prevailing ideological hegenomy within the left and the out-group is the suppression of differing points of view outside the hegemony with methods invoking ad-hominem, coercion, appeals to emotion and intimidation.
It is plain to see in this thread.
Was my comment hyperbole? Maybe. But it highlights a valid concern in my opinion and that it ironically evokes such clearly authoritarian reactions proves it was an appropriate criticism.
I bemoan the false equivalence of all cryptocurrency based code with fraudulent activity. And I see such lazy thinking as an act of vanity at the expense of tolerance.
Community standards are not authoritarian. Good grief. You have talked yourself into a corner with that wooly thinking.
I made a sarcastic comment and then defended myself against false accusations. It's that simple.
I defined what I consider authoritarian:
Am I wrong? Is it not appropriate bring up a wider discussion about the state of the left on a post about a code respository? I dunno.
You choosing to not to exchange with what I have written and instead use emotive language "good grief" because you felt like jumping on the bandwagon with others making false accusations of fascism goes against your own principles about "watering the term down".
Yes, you are wrong. Communities limit the content they want to host. They always do. Cryptocurrency software are not people.
That communities limit the content they want to host is obvious. It's whether it should be limited and what that says about that community.
Thank you for your opinion.
Not the person your arguing with.
But what sarcastic comment? You entrrd this thread with a long winded winge.
Original comment by me in the thread:
triggered a bunch of people, not a winge just defending myself against false accusations, calling out fascistic behavior.
One commenter decided to spread misinformation and falsehoods and the rest on the jumped on the band wagon.
And I think the behavior displayed is exemplary of my concern.