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I think it's extremely clear what's happening and why and tone policing them about it is not helpful.
I, too, do not want to be deleted out of existence by the US government/military and so i, too, comply with sanctions.
We have reason to believe Linus and the kernel team are not filling the kernel with government back doors (for the thing, there's a high chance someone notices and makes it public that such code was put into the kernel by one of them). Linus has talked about refusing to do this in the past. However, it's no surprise they're not willing to risk the whole project for a handful of people working for Russian weapons manufacturers.
So you realize they have no choice and couldn't have done any differently but you're still irrationally upset about it so you decided to become the tone police?
Funny fucking thing to say considering why Russia is under sanction.
This isn't a real comment, is it?
Anyway, the Linux kernel team are not about to fight the US government, particularly not to defend Russia. If you're so concerned about warmongering then leave Russia. Solves all the problems here. You don't gotta go to the US, even.
It's following the Amazon monopolization model.
He would cheer them on and say it was a blow against the "trans agenda" or something, i'm sure.
I feel a little bad encouraging the what-about-ism here but: Genocide actually does not have majority support in the US. Most polls show a majority of the public opposes genocide and what Israel is doing right now.
It's a minority that supports it.
With that said, that's not really related to the situation with the Linux kernel developers.
It's blatantly obvious and non-controversial what they're doing. That's why.
I mean, if you're in a STEM field you really should understand how sanctions work because they matter to your work and, thus, to you.
What do you mean by "doesn't work"? Doesn't get us to an anarchist society? Well yeah, if you had enough votes to get there you wouldn't even need to vote. People would just forget about all these made up ideas because who needs them? We can make up better ideas whenever we want.
If you mean "the outcome of the election will have no material impact on the world in which we live" then... i'm gonna have to disagree.
TBH i could leave this reply here but i'm going to elaborate anyway.
Yeah, both parties are strongly pro-genocide, against the wishes of the American people i might add. Genocide is not up for a vote. There are things that are, however. Such as how Arabic looking people will be treated in the US or how trans people will be treated--whether they'll be allowed to exist at all.
I also don't think it's inevitable that a society that's moving in a fascist direction will become full on fascist. I'm not gonna bet on it in the US's case, the US has been kinda crypto-fascist since at least W and before. Really, the US's problems predate and kind of inspired the modern concept of "fascism". Voting won't fix that, though. Not in the US or elsewhere.
Anti-fascist politics are not up for a vote, either. That doesn't mean there's nothing that can be done. Quite the opposite, there's a ton that can be done. Build a local anti-fascist, pro-community coalition and power base. Hell, you can build local political (electoral) power, too.
The Republicans didn't get to where they are now because all the old fossils from the 1950s suddenly went insane. It took decades of pushing crazy politics on a local level to get to where we are. They got up early and worked real fucking hard to make sure fascism was accepted, that it would be on the ballot, and that it would win. We could do the same, if we wanted. It'd be even easier for us, in some senses. Our goal is much more reasonable and does not require total power over everyone's lives. We just don't have anywhere near the same resources.