I’m guessing we should divide FOSS into political camps? We can’t code in open source projects with contributors that have political positions we oppose?

This seems to be the trend I’m seeing.

Their leaders align with the democratic plurality of the US?

WTF, I hate democracy now!

I blame people more than Microsoft. People were either duped or too lazy to say “Microsoft Teams” in full. It’s not too crazy to have services like “Apple Music” because people aren’t allowing Apple to control the word by just saying “Music” casually. People need to go back to saying “Microsoft Teams.” Alas, it will never happen. 😒

At least Chinese hackers won’t be able to mock you for being rejected so often.

Big corporations LOVE regulations and barriers to entry. It strengthens their dominance. The little guy competing doesn’t have the legal resources to keep compliant with all these accumulating laws.

Using what definition of irony?

A situation is ironic if it defies expectation. Like how Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, was killed by a stingray.

Kirk being killed by a leftist extremist, who thought he was a fascist, using a gun, is pretty much in line with how you’d expect him to die.

True. Most were against the violence, but many supported it.

Also, the country was founded using political violence.

Congratulations! You failed.

Sorry, my HTTP/2 brain does not understand this.

*walks away in happy ignorance*

He was reckless, no doubt. Being around a dangerous mob always is.

Maybe rift on him crossing state lines.

Very true.

Rittenhouse traveled all the way to some far off city he had no interest in. Sure, his father, grandmother, aunt, uncle, and cousin live there. Sure, he stayed with his friend who lived there. And he used to work as a lifeguard there. But otherwise, he only went there because he’s racist. That’s why he shot a couple white people.

My personal feelings do not inform this argument. What I say is wrong or it isn’t, regardless of my feelings about people or topics. I routinely argue against pro-choice arguments, for example, not because I’m pro-life, but because so many pro-choice arguments are bad. I actually support unfettered abortion and even limited legalized infanticide similar to Peter Singer, but that’s quite irrelevant to arguments I make about abortion.

I guess people in the military aren’t willing to die for anything either. After all, they wear body armor and use weapons against their enemies.

You can’t be so stupid as to think a willingness to die is the same as trying to die.

Me liking women and non-white people isn’t even relevant. If you don’t want to discuss the issues, then don’t.

Nothing I’ve seen would suggest that he was not willing to die for gun rights. Seems more like you cannot even comprehend someone being principled and politically consistent. Seems like projection to me.

It only qualifies as ironic if Kirk would not support being a part of the “price worth paying” for gun rights. Do you actually believe he would’ve only accepted the deaths of others and not of himself?

Not being mad about a fascist who advocates for public shootings as a necessity for society getting popped

So you don’t think he deserved it? Aren’t celebrating it?

I’m not opposed to public executions in general. The only problem I see with Kirk’s logic (which was that it would deter children from crime), is that only extreme violent crimes like murder would be deserving of execution. And allowing children to see killers getting killed isn’t exactly going to deter them from typical crimes, just murder.

If DEI is explicitly taking measures to not consider race/gender in hiring practices, then conservatives would largely support it.

So they’re not racist for opposing DEI, they just don’t understand what it really is, right?

This is the problem in politics when everyone is using the same terms with different meanings. Political discourse devolves into people speaking past each other with absolutely no point.

Rittenhouse defended himself against criminals trying to kill him, shooting one of them in the arm just as he was lowering a pistol to point it at him.

Nobody would be “celebrating” him if people didn’t try to vilify him and lock him in prison for the rest of his life.

you’re open to public executions in general.

You act like you’re not, in a thread of people celebrating a public killing. 🤔

I would actually be against public executions for political assassins like Vance Boelter, Tyler Robinson, and Luigi Mangione. It would radicalize more people, potentially making them more of a martyr for a cause.