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Reading about FOSS philosophy, degoogling, becoming against corporations, and now a full-blown woke communist (like Linus Torvalds)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

For me, it was around 2015ish when I first installed Linux after learning about it from someone that was detasselling in a corn field with me. Then around 2017-2020ish, I eventually became radicalized (2017 is when net neutrality was killed, even though around 80% of Americans supported it, which made me question our government and economy).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

democratized private ownership and made it serve our community.

Isn't that what communism is? In an ELI5 level?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I am not sure if you meant to reply to the other person's comment or refer to them in mine, but I think this video does a pretty good job at explaining socialism/communism to people wanting to understand it: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=fpKsygbNLT4

I'll try to give my own explanations later.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah sorry. I have replied to the wrong comment. Thanks for the video link BTW.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Second Thought is so good!