I know he has a fleet of megayachts but i wasn’t awake he owns an entire megayachts business

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    14 hours ago

    Sure I don’t disagree (and it’s a big problem for Lemmy) but it cuts both ways right? That’s the same as going “but I like cheeseburgers” in a vegan comm. Even if Gabe personally is good (I and a majority of people have no idea really) he still exist in a system where a select few are hoovering up disproportionate amounts of the wealth. That’s all, it doesn’t mean Gabe personally has to answer to capitalism. Just that unfortunately he exists in it and due to his position people aren’t gonna like him for it and I get that.

    That said plenty of people claim to hate him for that but just hate him in general and would do so even if he wasn’t as wealthy, as an aside. I don’t think I saw many subs specifically for Linux hate on reddit when I was there but they exist here lol. Perks of the platform I guess.

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      13 hours ago

      That’s the same as going “but I like cheeseburgers” in a vegan comm.

      No not really. Often what I’m talking about is someone asking why everyone hates Gabe then any explanation short of “he’s billionaire scum” is offensive to the types of users who make this place less pleasant. Nothing about Lemmy is inherently supposed to be raging zealots. Leftists can and should be civil and measured in the way they apply their ideas to society. Even if one personally thinks some ultra socialist world is the only acceptable one, it doesn’t help anyone to go around acting like everyone has to think just the same that regard.

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        13 hours ago

        I think we’re conflating some adjacent things here. There’s a good amount of people I can see in here calmly explaining the “he’s billionaire and that’s bad” angle which are all around Lemmy. Hence the quoted, although admittedly poor analogy. No problem blocking or muting the separate zealots as you mentioned before. I do it all the time. Unfortunately those you’re referring view those type of “civil” leftist as also the enemy. Its why I block some of the instances I do.

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          13 hours ago

          Right well the only issue I have with the calm people would be if there’s like 5 of them all saying exactly the same thing. Definitely more focused on the ragers in my comments here