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    • Edgerunner Alexis@dataterm.digitalEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Yeah I know, I don’t think them being tankies is really a problem for Lemmy as a whole. I was just annoyed that all they had to say is “no we aren’t tankies” and people just took them at their word lol

      • blightbow@kbin.social
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        2 years ago

        all they had to say is “no we aren’t tankies” and people just took them at their word lol

        IMO it’s a little more cynical than that, they rephrased the narrative into one that they could cleanly reject and be quoted on. As others have pointed out, it is almost a certainty that 1) they do not consider themselves or their ideology to be fascist, and 2) they aren’t supporting genocide if they do not acknowledge that the peoples in question are actually subject to genocide.

        Edit: …Which you’ve already affirmed in one of your previous comments, my bad.

    • Widget@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      I guess it kinda matters in that people like me certainly won’t be giving any code contributions, which for an open source project can be critical to its long-term health.

      But devs also tolerate and use tons of code and the licenses that Richard Stallman wrote, even if he’s a huge creepball that a bunch of other free software orgs had to back away from.

      So we’ll see. I also wouldn’t rule out a fork of it just so that it’s officially ran by a less controversial group.