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[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 104 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Its almost as if DHH and those transphobes over at Hyprland(not to mention Lunduke, Luke Smith, Distrotube, and the various cadre of right wing little bissh boys on YouTube) all forgot about Linus Torvalds.

A screenshot of a comment from Linus Torvalds which reads: "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? I’m a card-carrying atheist, I think a woman’s right to choose is very important, I think that “well regulated militia” means that guns should be carefully licensed and not just randomly given to any moron with a pulse, and I couldn’t care less if you decided to dress up in the “wrong” clothes or decided you’d rather live your life without feeling tied to whatever plumbing you were born with. And dammit, if that all makes me “woke”, then I think anybody who uses that word as a pejorative is a f*cking disgrace to the human race. So please just unfollow me right now."

As far as I'm concerned Linux is for the left. But heck when an ideology like fascism is born out of grifting off left wing ideology (i.e. See Mussolini's socialist/anarchist father), the right can just appropriate whatever they want...but they'll still always be little bissh boys to me.

[–] iByteABit@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Probably the coolest comment Linus ever made

[–] elixir_fan@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Sounds like he may be a socially progressive liberal.

[–] hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

wouldn't even go that far, the examples he mentioned are pretty uncontroversial at this point

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

He's not american, so no.

[–] boonhet@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 days ago

He lives in the US though so should we be using European or American terms? In American terms he absolutely is a liberal, based on all the stances mentioned, whereas in European terms, liberal more or less means capitalist

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

He's one of the few cool high profile Europeans to move here!