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saruji commented on Richard M. Stallman resigns fsf.org/news/richard-m-st... · Posted by u/maxdeviant

kelnos · 6 years ago

Can we please stop excusing bad behavior with some form of "oh because autism"? It's an insult to the many, many neuro-atypical people who don't say shitty, stupid things online, who don't act creepy around women, who don't have a sign on their MIT office that says "Knight for Justice (Also: Hot Ladies)", who don't have a gross mattress in their office where they encourage people to lie topless, who don't try to pressure women into dating them by saying they'll kill themselves otherwise. All of those things describe RMS, things that have been mostly quietly ignored and hand-waved away for decades.

We don't have to tolerate people who make women feel unsafe and unwelcome in our (or any) industry.

You seem to be arguing the usual tired old thing: "but he's a genius and does such great work that we should tolerate the bad things he does". I really thought we'd started to move past that over the last few years.

saruji · 6 years ago

It is you and those like you that make people feel unsafe and unwelcome. RMS is quirky and weird and he says what many don't feel safe to talk about. The recent assault based not on fact or principle but rather implied (assumed)intent is a farce and wont lead to good things. Tech is dead and RMS is a fallen king. Take your PC bullying and wreck havoc over everything the geeks or "autists" created. I'm moving on but the industry is no longer a place of inclusion and all of the safe guards put in place were not enough to stop societies wicked. Enjoy eating each other in your Brave New World.

saruji commented on Julian Assange arrested in London bbc.co.uk/news/uk-4789173... · Posted by u/kragniz

dd36 · 6 years ago

OP said they won’t go to prison because Trump wasn’t found colluding. It’s nonsensical. As though, Trump not telling Russia what to do means it didn’t happen. We know beyond a doubt Russia interfered. We also know Assange was one of their stooges. Read the indictments.

saruji · 6 years ago

So what? Netanyahu once gave a speech to Congress in the middle of elections. All countries interfere all the time. Some citizens have positive views of the countries those individuals represent some don’t. It doesn’t matter. Countries don’t have friend, they have interests that either align or don’t. Singling out Russia doesn’t in anyway lead to causation on the part of Assange.

saruji commented on War in Europe is not a hysterical idea washingtonpost.com/opinio... · Posted by u/smacktoward

deepsun · 11 years ago

1) In 1939 Polish were also too busy just living. 2) That's the point. 3) If a German/Brit/American see Russian tanks in their towns killing their people, they will go and shoot in response. "Overall mentality" means very little in existential circumstances.

They will don't want to attack other country, sure. But Russian forces are doing just that right now, and you know, under proper propaganda, most Russians support Putin (86% as of the most recent surveys), and think war in Ukraine is organized by Americans.

So regular Russian troops think they're going there to _defend_ Ukrainians from Americans, same as they did in 1968 in Czechoslovakia.

Actually, regular troops appeared there only recently, conflict was started earlier by local pro-Russian people, heavily supported by Russia by means of contract warriors from Chechnya, arms, including heavy: tanks, anti-aircraft systems that brought down MH17, and most importantly -- military instructors (their leader was Russian from KGB/FSB).

So mentality is not a stopping factor there. Before WW2 people mostly thought it's impossible to repeat cruelties of WW1.

I'm Belarussian, so I know Russian mentality. It's not as smart and humane as you're assuming.

saruji · 11 years ago

Russia is defending its self interest, much in the way any other country would and does where they can to the extent that they can. Russia's capital elite aren't dummies, they have avoided having their wrists tied by the West so far but that will change in time. Americas military budget dwarfs Russia's, it would take a relatively large collective group of the mentally ill to want a direct confrontation with the US. I'm Russian and we aren't as any more or less so, dumb or inhumane as any other people. Don't demonize entire group of people you happen to disagree with.