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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(2026 is off to a great start, isnāt it? Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Lately, Iāve become more and more concerned that āsystemd freeā is shifting from a thoughtful objection to an outright crank signifier
It really is insane how many of these fashies hate systemd. Whenever someone says they dislike systemd(or rust being in everything, which is another thing these people seem to object heavily to) I immediately check their history for any weirdo shit and nine out of ten times they turn out to be fash. Saying this as someone who doesnāt particularly like sytemd either.
Iāve always thought of linux as a vaguely commie thing but it seems like a) there were more libertarians in there than I thought, b) using linux appeals to some very right wing freaks who donāt like the idea of not being in total control, and c) thereās a right wing computer culture promoted by online influencers to nerdy young men, not dissimilar to right wing gamer culture.
The above site is hosted on neocities. Iāve been involved in the small web/personal web/indie web for a while (almost 6 years now, Jesus) and I knew thereās a more right wing side to it but I hadnāt come across it much (except for digdeeper linked to above, whose online privacy guides I read and took seriously before he started posting about Covid and I realized he was a conspiracy theorist). Then recently I found a neonaziās site on neocities through a Christian webring* and spent a while looking around in morbid fascination.
*You canāt join if you support abortion or gay people, but apparently they donāt check to make sure youāre not a Nazi. Iām tempted to set up a competing webring for Christians with normal viewsā¦
I could see Linux attracting the āI am a superior intellectā types and then those people drifting rightward over the last ten years. If they didnāt start out far right.
definitely. plus the woman-hating background radiation of a lot of online communities and media for teenage boys.
I found out about the rightwing / misogynist strain of FOSS mostly via the furore over RMS defending Minsky from Epstein allegations.
i was aware of āleft-wing but rancid about womenā as a common political perspective in techy fields, but I wasnāt aware of many out and out right-wingers in the FOSS world specifically (beyond the odd TempleOS type kook).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond#Political_beliefs_and_activism
nice find there:
Oh I saw that name before - https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/contra-ptaceks-terrible-article-on-ai/