The entire drama that you see in the Linux and Open source world.. well, actually I take that back.. Most of it.. is started and amplified by state funded and/or affiliated provocateurs, they come like sharks that smell blood, and the result as we have seen over and over again is a bloody mess.. people end up devided, projects weakened, and generally nothing stays the same after that.. you could feel that the projects that went thru drama, has started to wear this corporate cloak, heck.. It's worse than that.. they start acting like a 'political party that decided to start making software'.

If I was the government, this is exactly where I want these "free software" developers and their communities to be, their belief in me is above their belief in what they're doing, I (the state) made them believe in two fundamentally contradicting ideas, that's why they will never trully make software that threatens my control, despite me being the inferior idea, despite me relying on violence to exist, despite me deviding them, manipulating them, lying to them, and when they do make software that threatens me, due process be damned, hunt them across borders and throw them in jail. It's really sad.. the software they're making can make a change, their vote doesn't and they argue over the later..

Now back to the main point.. these sharks that start biting on git and forums spaces, notice how they make things personal.. notice how they leverage the things that *they know* divides people, they focus on that, and they amplify it, and they absolutely HATE IT when a voice tries to bring the community together.. I can give a couple of examples: DistroTube, they tried to cancel him before but it didn't take off, when he showed his guns.. he's now suddenly a far right extremist, crusader.. whatever nonsense they were saying... even someone like Brodie, they dug thru his past, de-anonymized him, and showed what?? a 17yo.. being a 17yo, saying some dumb shit.. they also showed that he was trying to hide his past once he started getting famous.. you got to appreciate their argumentative skills.. btw I don't like Brodie's channel.. I don't like his voice, but I can see what's going on, he brings people together despite their political views and their identities.. shall we say, he listens to all sides, and chances are.. all sides listen to him.. (I'm talking about his second channel Tech Over Tea in case you're lost)

the bottom line is: be very SKEPTICAL of the voices that try to divide, they're stealthy like scorpions, they will tell you: Oh, look person X said something bad.. he's a terrible person and his project too, and Yeah... maybe it's a bad take.. But step two is where they manipulate most people, they apply peer pressure to get you to subscribe to the protest, usually by shaming you if you don't.. I say "umm I think we're overreacting" and I get shamed.. Of course there is the reverse tactic.. they might say something like: "Hey, I'm just throwing this out there and you do you" .. yeah still shaming.. just without pressure

They're so hard to detect, because they use valid reasons.. as a disguise for their true intention, to bring a project to become political, once that happens, it's no longer a threat to the government, it's no longer Free software, it's political software Aka State software.

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