submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [M] to c/libre@hexbear.net
 

It all started because he was shitting on the NY Times for being an ad-ridden mess where you have to call a human in order to cancel your subscription. Someone called NY Times woke communist propaganda and Linus went nerd rage on them.

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Linus posts "I think you might want to make sure you don’t follow me.  Because your “woke communist propaganda” comment makes me think you’re a moron of the first order.  I strongly suspect I am one of those “woke communists” you worry about. But you probably couldn’t actually explain what either of those words actually mean, could you?"

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[–] 78 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (12 children)

I just learned Linus torvalds has the correct political opinions

So this motherfucker might be the most remarkable man on the planet

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    I love that man. I dread the day he steps down, and I dearly hope whoever he appoints as his successor is as good as he is.

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  • [–] [S] 32 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    The whole thing doesn't depend on him it's just that he's the benevolent dictator for life (BDFL) of the Linux kernel and everyone pulls from his git tree. Linus just reviews and approves patchsets sent to the kernel to his tree and people trust his judgement.

    There should really be corresponding kernels besides Linux but so much of the development and hardware bring up is focused on the Linux kernel.

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  • [–] 66 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    OK, fine, you've convinced me. I'll watch his Tech Tips show.

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    [–] 41 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    Linus was always a better face for Linux anyway. We can collectively do without creepy toenail eating guy.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Could be worse than RMS. Could be ESR.

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    [–] 39 points 2 years ago

    Based based based

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago*

    Linus and excoriating dumb asses. One of the best duos.

    Hell, he doesn't even have look for it, it finds him. Geez.

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    [–] 25 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    We're all woke communist propagandists on this blessed day

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    Linus for the win!

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago

    Typical Linus W

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Linus is our Notch.

    He's the goat.

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  • [–] [S] 33 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Linus didn't sell out though and become a neo-nazi billionaire. He's a woke communist through and through!

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Is he an actual communist or just a woke communist?

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  • [–] [S] 36 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Most nerds his generation are mostly libertarians if they didn't go the silicon valley elon techbro alt right pipeline. RMS was a libertarian and had a lot of brainworms.

    If you asked them he'd probably say he's a demsoc judging from his reaction and that he's finnish

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    Damn, if you tell me that he's against genocide next, then he's a tanky confirmed!

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Ok but does he actually have the right opinions? Because the NYT is an imperialist capitalist rag. Like I would love to find out that Linus is genuinely a Communist but I would hate to find out that he's just a Liberal who calls himself a Socialist because he's confused about what the terms mean

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  • [–] [S] 25 points 2 years ago*

    He's a Finnish millionaire so he's closer to demsucc than ML but even demsuccs can shut down reactionary assholes. I don't think he would spew propaganda uncritically though like most liberals.

    Europe is a weird place politically compared to the US.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Maybe he doesn't have the time to form the correctTM opinions about everything that exists in the known universe. I just look what he's doing and has been doing for the last 3 decades: writing an open, free and secure operating system that everybody can use. Linux is IMHO the proof that something like communism can work in the real world. Nobody owns it and you thousands of people work on it from all around the world. If people can collaboratively write software together then we can theoretically do everything together. Also: our modern world wouldn't be possible without Linux. It runs everywhere. Windows is just on a tiny fraction of all computers.

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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    Go off king

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    [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    A card carrying atheist.

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