@Floppy You could interchange fascist with whatever political movement you don't agree with. Are we to say that Stalin was a great guy after all? Communists were worse! Look at what they've done in Kommiefornia.

@Floppy is there a list? I can think of:
- Ruby on Rails
- Omarchy
- Xlibre

Any others?

@Floppy As a software engineer, I just now had to look up what this was in reference to, I assume neovim? I do not think a tiny handful of people running completely forgettable projects should be suggested to represent MANY ACTUALLY important projects...

I've never used neovim. I don't know anyone that has ever used neovim. That isn't critical infrastructure. It's one of the tiny blocks on the upper right corner supporting literally nothing.

@Floppy Superimpose this over the "project of a trans furry" one and you realize that nobody can win.

@Floppy Needs a bunch of spikes coming out the side and falling off that say, "Projects that might have done different but everyone made fun of."

@Floppy the code is crucial. The guh is not.

@Floppy 😭

@Floppy

much of modern biomedical research depends on tools that were not patented by the people who discovered them

eg
Green Fluorescent Protein and 2 Hybrid

PCR is an odd exception

2 hybrid
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2705515/

GFP
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9759496/

@Floppy Fascism attracts people, because of deceptive beauty, order, and masculinity.

If only demonized, we won’t take away its power to destroy.

I believe label Fascism was created first by outside press in response to Mussolini, not him nor his predecessors.

Fasces is the key to understand Mussolini.

He saw Roman militarism as the socialist unifier, which was influenced in part due to his exclusion from internationalist privileged circles & ironically British financiers.

@Floppy I feel like this needlessly inflates how many fascists there actually are. every time someone is revealed to be a fascist, it’s a whole news story - because it’s relatively rare.

But because you hear about every fascist who happens to maintain or lead something, they seems a lot more than the thousands of people who aren’t fascist, who are just quietly maintaining something without fanfare or big red alerts.

@Floppy
Did the xz utils guy turn out to be fascist? Did I miss something? If not, then sorry, but that one random person in Nebraska still remains among all the assholes building upon his/her work to enslave all of us.

@Floppy yeah, review thier code closely - 🤢

@Floppy Maybe we shouldn't use projects that are led