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[–] wpb@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago* (10 children)

The guy behind Omarchy is also likely not a Nazi

He once said London is worse because it has fewer whites. He used some shitty noncommital dogwhistle phrase like "native British" or something like that, but the statistic he referred to (and actually referenced when saying that) was about the percentage of white Londoners. When this was pointed out to him, he didn't go "oops, how embarrassing, let me adjust the statistics I referred to", or "let me clarify my point" or anything like that. He just whined that he wasn't allowed to have an opinion. Not what I'd expect from someone who said white nationalist stuff by accident.

So, is he a card carrying member of the early 20th century German National Socialist party? No. But I don't think it's overblown to call him a nazi.

This post has some more details:

https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-problem

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[+] Jiral@lemmy.org -5 points 7 months ago (9 children)

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[–] wpb@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (8 children)

That's "otherwise it's just sparkling fascism" level semantics.

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[+] Jiral@lemmy.org -5 points 7 months ago* (7 children)

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[–] wpb@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (6 children)

You need to straighten out your definition of fascist. Hitler is a fascist. Take your favorite definition of fascist, like Ecco's or whatever, and Hitler will satisfy it. He does fascism. His policies are militaristic, nationalistic, he enacts laws to suppress minorities, etc. Someone who votes for Hitler does none of those things, but they're still a fascist by any sensible meaning of the word.

Today, there are fascists operating in our democratic systems. From the British National Party to Trump. Not all of them are actively overthrowing the systems they exist in. One such fascist is Tommy Robinson. DHH has expressed explicit support for Robinson and his white nationalist rallies.

You do not know DHH's politics. You don't know who he voted for. Nor do I. But we can make an educated guess based on his open white nationalism and his explicit support for fascists. If someone basically tells you "hi, I'm a fascist", you believe them.

Also, I don't know who you think you're helping by playing these semantic games (based on shoddy definitions btw).

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[+] Jiral@lemmy.org 0 points 7 months ago* (5 children)

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[–] wpb@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago* (4 children)

No, please read my full comment. He is very likely to be a fascist because he supports fascists. And you can find the source of his support of Robinson in my earlier comment.

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[+] Jiral@lemmy.org 0 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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[–] wpb@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

Could you please explain why you're so desperately defending a white nationalist? And to reiterate my point, in bold, in the hopes that you might read it if you support fascists, you are a fascist, even though you aren't doing fascism. Someone who votes for Hitler, even though they aren't doing fascism, is a fascist.

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[+] Jiral@lemmy.org 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

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[–] wpb@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago*

Framework is a company. But yes, supporting an open fascist is a bad thing (I cannot believe this needs saying), even if s company does it, which is why people are so upset about it.

I feel like you've come around to the point that DHH is a fascist. That's good to see at least.

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[–] Arcanoloth@lemmy.ml 13 points 7 months ago (6 children)

You realize that "apolitical" is an extremely well-known nazi dog-whistle / pure apologetics these days, right? I'm not saying you shouldn't buy framework, that's your call to make, and my threshold-to-nazi is clearly different from yours, but I do think people should at least look at who they're in bed with.

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[–] poke@sh.itjust.works 10 points 7 months ago (1 child)

apolitical is also a word with a definition

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[–] Arcanoloth@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago

Definitions, or rather language, tend to change over time. Usually turning into their opposites. And nothing stops people, in this case right wingers, to abuse a term to hide their crap either. See "Evolution: Contoversy". No,I'm sorry, just like "Hacker" has become a synonym for "Cracker" & "Black Hat", so "apolitical" has become a fig leaf to "hide" right wing bullshit in plain sight

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[–] Alberat@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

what do you buy instead?

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[–] Arcanoloth@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago

Usually very old (more tenth than second-hand) Lenovo ThinkPads (And, yes, I am aware of IBMs involvement in Holocaust management via the Deutsche Hollerith-Maschienen AG), they tend to be ok for neat things like LibreBoot too. If I didn't want to tinker with them myself I'd buy directly from https://minifree.org/ instead. Sure, they are oooooold, but I'm a programmer of the vim-persuasion, but not compiling horrible languages like C++, so I really don't need much. That said: I am ok with people making their own decisions, following their own moral compass; I really just wanted to make sure that they are at least aware and can make an informed decision ;-)

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[+] Jiral@lemmy.org -8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)

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[–] Arcanoloth@lemmy.ml 1 point 7 months ago

There's loads of articles out there about them,not my job to explain them to you. You may disagree with their conclusions, of course, but othes may draw conclusions from your behaviour, too. In this sense: plonk

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[–] TheFrirish@tarte.nuage-libre.fr -1 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I don't know what you're expecting debating with a .ml honestly.

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[–] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I've seen the many forms in which human stupidity manifests, but Lemmy instance tribalism is absolutely one of the stupidest things I've ever seen.

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[–] TheFrirish@tarte.nuage-libre.fr -2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yes warning someone that they are about to get their fingers bitten off by a user from one of the most disingenuous groups online is the stupidest things you've ever seen then you must live in at the CERN LHC and never go out.

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[–] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Thinking the entirety of the third largest, oldest Lemmy instance is a cultural, political, or even behavioral monolith makes a room temperature IQ enviable. Clearly all 58k .ml users believe and behave similarly. Clearly.

Just writing this sarcastically managed to make me even stupider.

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[–] TheFrirish@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 0 points 7 months ago

I'm going to reply one more time and then block because there is no point in debating.

The .ml instance (including hex and grad) is one of the most controlled instances. Anything that doesn't align with support to authoritarian regime's objectives is nearly immediately silenced and will probably get you a ban from the whole instance itself. There are countless examples on https://sh.itjust.works/c/meanwhileongrad

I invite everyone reading this exchange to go there and make an opinion for themselves. The mods actions from .ml speak volumes just as the behaviour of their users (and brigading I can already see here).

Fuck tankies.