• Bazell@lemmy.zip
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    6 days ago

    If this is a good software(that doesn’t have spying or security flaws) and they give it for free, then yes. Why not? Person may be a garbage but their work can be good.

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      6 days ago

      Why not?

      Because some people don’t like fascists/tankies to succeed at what they do. This shouldn’t need explaining.

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        Kinda getting into cutting off your nose to spite your face territory though, no? Like, if I take a free tool created by a fascist, then use it to fight against fascism, aren’t I now hurting the fascist’s cause? I fail to see how that’s helping them succeed, at least at being a fascist, which I think we can agree is the more important attribute to care about here.

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      6 days ago

      Obviously, because using their software is tacit or implied support for that person.

      How many millions of people would say they “support” mozilla when really the only support they provide is using the free software.

      A person’s work is quite obviously tainted by their beliefs.

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        In the minds of the politically-motivated, maybe.

        Not all minds are politically-motivated.

        The blunt fact that people are multidimensional, & some are high-integrity-in-work while being low-integrity-in-business, or are excellent-woodworkers-while-being-family-abusers … what a person is in 1 dimension oft has nothing to do with what they are in another.

        Ideologues who insist otherwise are living within their ideology, not within actuality.

        Spiders may creep many out, while their silk is one of the most astonishingly-awesome materials known.

        their silk doesn’t itself creep people out…

        but maybe ideologues hold that it has to be creepy because to them spiders themselves are creepy…

        Cult-“thinking”.

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          5 days ago

          What is with the

          [Paragraphs of weird rambling]

          [Weird emoji thing sign off every single comment]

          Format? Is this a bit account?

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            4 days ago

            This is a wild-ass guess, as I’m no religious scholar, but Paragone’s profile pic appears to be a statue of The Buddha, the emoji may represent the way Buddhists hold their hands together when bowing.

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              Ah yes, I forgot the strict Buddhist teaching that when using social media, enlightenment is only achieved by writing with many unnecessary line breaks, rambling, and emoji sign offs. Buddha really knew how to fire off a mean tweet and led by example for us all to follow. Thank you for reminding me.