That’s the joke yes. Among others here. 😆

You mean mainland Taiwan? Never heard of this China.

100% it wasn’t my intention to imply otherwise. Just to point out that celebrities are still just people and people have pretty dark sides oftentimes. So many people get lulled into traps thinking that someone famous or well known is safe. They’re just like any of the rest of us.

No one should ever be put on a pedestal. We all have our demons. Though many of them are semi innocent or only hurt ourselves. It still sad to hear another celebrity abused their celebrity.

Good ole wimp lo.

No state under a vanguard party is Democratic. No state is communist either. When is emperor Xi’s next election? Is he enjoying the royal palace? Democratic my ass. Cuba factually has been under a military dictatorship for the last many decades. I think it’s better than many of the others would have been. If it only because Castro somehow managed to be less corrupted than most leninist dictators/vanguards. Which is why we should have no vanguards or oligarchs.

Believe me I have no love for the US government. They stole my ancestors land. Marched them to death. Sent my grandmother to those quaint little Indian schools that practiced cultural genocide. And often actual genocide with mass graves out back. But that you think Lenin’s shit smells good. Lenin/Stalin actively helped Hitler invade my other ancestors home. Slaughtering family and neighbors. Then returning to Russia to slaughter more that lived there. Because the fucking vanguard perceived them as a threat. Passive genocide, active genocide, passive genocide, active genocide. They both suck. But somehow leninist apologia manages to always be more hypocritical and out of touch.

The US certainly isn’t good on that front. But they’re nowhere near the mastery of it as Russia, Mainland Taiwan, or other Korea.

This is my last response to you

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

Link whatever you want. But prove your point. You keep saying correlation equals causation. But they’re two different words with two different meanings. Correlation does not imply causation.

I absolutely believe the timing of this was influenced by those sanctions 100%. I also believe it was influenced by both China and Russia attacking International infrastructure. Things like the other side of the table being cut , or the ZX back door orchestrated by China last year.

I believe all these things factor into why Linus and the foundation CHOSE to expel those contributors. Because they are vulnerable to those authoritarian States. And are thus a vector to attack the projects. Which they did not have staff or funds to audit and ensure they weren’t.

You keep implying that this was not a choice that Torvalds and the foundation did it against their will. Despite Torvalds posting the opposite. You can keep linking to the sanctions all you want. And while I think the sanctions played a part in this. I still think Torvalds and the foundation chose to do it on their own. And were not under duress to comply. Unlike your average Russian or Chinese citizen. Not that the West is Worlds better.

Okay, and? Torvald and many others aren’t American, not subject to it, and publicly stated that they weren’t forced to do it.

You’re claiming, hyperbolically might I add, that you know whats going on with Torvald and the foundation better than those people themselves. And still showing no actual proof or causation. How can anyone conclude anything other than you are gaslighting and being misleading? It’s Mega level bullshit conspiracy theories.

Damn your projection is off the charts. But I mean it’s what we’ve come to expect from leninists. The childish Behavior I mean.

Had I actually said anything stupid. Then you should have been easily able to refute it. Yet you can’t. You can’t even actually acknowledge or reply to anything that I said. Instead choosing to Make up things or imagine things that were never Said.

BTW I’m an anarchist. I have no love for rent seeking leaches. Just as I don’t for capitalist/leninist hypocrites.

Force implies force. If you have evidence that it was actually done by force. Against Torvald’s etc will. Please share it. Otherwise get out of here with your gasslighting.

Any project open source or otherwise can and does restrict contribution.

Spoken like an willful adherent of a failed ideology.

Well he was Freud. Everything tied back to dicks and mothers. Make of that what you will. Maybe it was a Freudian slip.

True. But if something is worth doing it shouldn’t matter if it’s hard. We should still try.

That’s a bad mischaracterization. You cannot force someone to do something voluntarily . Torvald spoke in support of it. I’m sure many governments and groups using the Linux kernel and open source want Developers that are vetted. Or can be reasonably sure won’t be forced to act maliciously under duress.

And? Maybe we shouldn’t. Maybe no one should be dependent on one country like that. Especially authoritarian ones.

Ironically…

Where the west behaves similarly, absolutely. It would be hypocritical not to.

So was I. And I didn’t. Simply mentioned the hypocrisy of both groups. Again, you’re making assumptions.

That’s only because you’re putting words in my mouth. That was literally the point. We’ve just outsourced the brutally. And just because the West used brutality and slavery does not justify China doing it now.

Either way I’m going to get it from both sides. Tankies screaming about China criticism. Capitalist upset about criticizing the west.