I started watching DistroTube several years ago, seemed like a fairly straightforward guy, would do a few tutorials on Linux commands, aggregated FOSS headlines, did a full install of Arch in real time once.
Then one day on his channel he told a story. Apparently he worked in a retail environment, and was accused by a customer, a “minority” as he put it, of “following her around the store.” He made a pretty big point that he responded to his manager “thanks for letting me know.”
suspicious eye squint
Then he told the story or going to a Trump rally.
Yeah he’s a right-wing nutjob. Surprised he hasn’t hurt anyone yet.
His rant on Mozilla’s “We need to do more than deplatforming” was my last straw. He raked them over the coals for a title and never read a word from the article.
I’m pro FOSS, and pro gun. I just can’t stand people that do no effort and use there platforms to sow division though.
Thats fine, but I also would argue against this kind of purity testing. Where a person is written off because they disagree with you on one or two issue. There are a lot of colorful characters in the community so you would quickly end up very alone…
I knew something was off, I never really could watch his channel for some reason. This is one more hint that my intuition wasn’t wrong.
I started watching DistroTube several years ago, seemed like a fairly straightforward guy, would do a few tutorials on Linux commands, aggregated FOSS headlines, did a full install of Arch in real time once.
Then one day on his channel he told a story. Apparently he worked in a retail environment, and was accused by a customer, a “minority” as he put it, of “following her around the store.” He made a pretty big point that he responded to his manager “thanks for letting me know.”
suspicious eye squint
Then he told the story or going to a Trump rally.
Yeah he’s a right-wing nutjob. Surprised he hasn’t hurt anyone yet.
His rant on Mozilla’s “We need to do more than deplatforming” was my last straw. He raked them over the coals for a title and never read a word from the article.
I’m pro FOSS, and pro gun. I just can’t stand people that do no effort and use there platforms to sow division though.
Thats fine, but I also would argue against this kind of purity testing. Where a person is written off because they disagree with you on one or two issue. There are a lot of colorful characters in the community so you would quickly end up very alone…
I think overall DT is a good advocate for FOSS.
This. Old dude ranting all the time, refusing change, being kinda self entitled and with veeeery MURICA vibes.