[–] 0 points 8 months ago

people who do use “-ism” labels can also be helpful people.

I don't disagree about that either.

What I am saying is that (now again having to reiterate what I said before) if you use a *-ism extensively without properly defining it, you end up giving power to a phenomenon you don't get to control. And someone with the ability to control it, can come in and use it for nefarious purposes, as stated in previous comments.

  • source
  • parent
  • context
  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    I love how short sighted they are.

    That might not be the case.

    Ever since Windows 8, MS seems to be shifting the bar for what users will keep using Windows each version. This should get all but the most compliant ones out of their system.

    Next, they might have multiple time bombs in the Linux ecosystem. xz might have just been a POC.

    So what we might have here:

    1. Keep all easily surveillable people on the system and tighten the leashes.
    2. Use the multi-point security compromisations all over the Linux ecosystem at opportune moments before they are caught, robbing the users of their systems in some shape or form.
      • I feel like they might have had to speed up their plans due to the reduced control they would have from RISC V proliferation.
    3. -- a. Use the opportunities from step 2 to neutralise HVTs and do whatever they want from those who become powerless (jobless/moneyless).
  • source
  • parent
  • context
  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Yeah I was being facetious.
    But a better way to say that is - Not everyone has the time to subscribe to all such things, no matter how widespread it is. And I am saying this as one that literally has "Socialist" in the constitution of my country.

  • source
  • parent
  • context
  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

    “Its 2026 and in my third week here on North Sentinel Island, I’ve discovered that, despite a century of a world super power using the word ‘socialist’ in the name of their country, somehow these people have never heard the word, ‘socialism’”.

    Well, some people just never learnt English

    trying to get you to stop caring about what someone.calls themselves and start caring about what they do.

    Guess what? I always ever really cared about what people do. And someone calling themselves something is part of what they do, for whatever reasons they do.
    I don't have a problem with this part. My problem is the direction you take after this conclusion. Words will always mean something to people and when someone calls themselves a part of some groups or when someone calls others a part of their group, politics takes over from that point. That affects the masses and masses have power.
    So even if I actively try to stay out of said "masses", doesn't mean it won't affect me.

  • source
  • parent
  • context
  • view more: ‹ prev next ›