Friendly reminder that it’s very easy to sympathize with the plight of the Palestinians without glorifying terrorists.
For a similar example, I support the cause of a United Ireland but that doesn’t mean I support the IRA. Be better than that.
~~There is no indication whatsoever that @SleeplessOne1917 is the same person as @cannotsleep420~~. Jesus, people, stop pissing yourselves for the literal 30 seconds it took to fact check this bullshit claim.
*edit: I took the liberty of finding the actual dev's account: /u/SleeplessOne1917@lemmy.ml. It took a whole additional minute. You're welcome
*edit 2: /u/NOT_RICK@lemmy.world has some links below that do indeed link /u/SleeplessOne1917@lemmy.ml to /u/CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml. Soooo, while I don't regret my nearly infinite capacity for skepticism, but it looks like this story has some legs. Hat tip to NOT_RICK, who is adamantly not Rick.
You might want to reinvestigate. @cannotsleep420 is the one that made those comments and they are a dev.
What a creepy asshole. He should probbaly get back to /pol/, seems like he'd fit on there better.
Lemmygrad and hexbear serve as a propaganda wing of for people that make being communist their whole life. You can block certain feds to clear out your feed.
I wouldn't get riled up about it, they literaly say stuff to upset you so you react.
Lemmy.ml isn't much better.
The Internet is not safe, just got wade through the shit to make it to something good them make a path toward it by getting rid of the noise.
What a special piece of shit he is.
I thought we were already aware that the devs are deranged lmao
*hexbears: that’s why I’m here
Personally, I would accept a PR from a convicted murderer if the code was good. It would be a problem I would have to have meetings with this person but if he just submits code why would I care? There are no political opinions in code. It's not like code written by a rapist somehow pollutes my codebase.
Yeah the code might be fine. But if I want to support the development of Lemmy, say with a donation, am I financially supporting a piece of shit?
I'm not saying every contributor has to be thoroughly vetted, or that I have to agree politically with every contributor. It just feels icky, and I get the concern users have.
I donate to Lemmy.world but that doesn't go to this Lemmy dev in question, only Ruud and his team. You can donate to specific instance admins who aren't batshit crazy hateful scumbags and support the growth of healthy instances.
Anyone is able to contribute to the code. Are you saying we need background checks before contributions? Also as pointed out in another comment you didn’t prove any connection between the two usernames either.
The Lemmy devs are tankies, they also deny chinese human rights violations and deny genocides.
Idc about his political views. I'm still thankful he is talking the time to working on developing lemmy.
Right now there's a million spicy takes on this conflict.
Good God man.
Just because there are competing perspectives does not mean that all perspectives are equally appropriate.
Just because someone does something that benefits you personally does not give them a free pass for being a fuck head
He made the comment on an instance that supports that kind of extreme speech. The comment was appropriate in the place that he made it. I don't care if someone's a fuck head its not a big deal to me.
I for one would prefer that the dev of the tools I use doesn’t celebrate the deaths of children just because of where they happened to be born. Calling that just a “spicy take” is ridiculous.
Would you feel the same if he supported nazis putting jewish people into gas chambers?
this is not just some "political views" or a "spicy take" this is someone advocating for the murder of a group of people. you can't just centrist your way out of this
This is difficult. I don't contribute code yet, but knowing that these kind of people might have a say in the development of Lemmy, I'm not sure I want to contribute. Maybe !pangora@programming.dev will be more welcoming... dunno.
War is dirty, always has been.
And the year/decade long war/geconide in Palestine/Israel? Sponsored by the west and an utter humanitarian shitshow.
Standing on their own, those statements are sure horrible. But you gotta see the grand picture, then you can only despair and perhaps turn your gaze away or you will be plagued by sleepless nights.
Welp. This has been an education in how deranged this place is.
This place we are on right now is lemmy.ca. What does it say about it?
How about we stop both sides from killing people considering it's been going on for hundreds of years and nothing has changed.
Unfortunately this is a very classic far leftist take. Easy to blindly justify a cause you’ve been told to believe in when you simply dehumanize what you’ve been told are the villains
Seriously? Unlike all the warm supportive right wing dehumanization. That person is sick. They'd be sick on either side of the aisle. Making this a left/right thing is small of you. I don't know you so I didn't expect better, but in a general sense I hoped people were better than what you've demonstrated here.
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