Matthew Gibson via PLUG-discuss said on Tue, 28 Jan 2025 20:06:42 -0700
>openSUSE Unable to Find Board Candidates After Banning Conservatives
><https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4ZKtKGiNq8&t=1s>
Correlation doesn't imply causation. But wait: Did OpenSUSE ban
conservatives at all? A web search on the two terms "opensuse" and
"conservatives" brought up over links of which over 80% either were by
Lunduke or referenced Lunduke. The remainder either said nothing about
politics or were, how should I put it, too tiny to be credible. So this
is all a tempest in a teacup.
Lunduke has a good thing going for him. You've got to admit, he's
pretty clever. This formerly credible Linux guy sees well, we'll call
them conservatives, whose beliefs are all consuming and matters of
faith. Lunduke then "reports" on what he calls liberalization or woke in
certain Linux communities, telling all who will listen that he reports
what nobody else has the guts to. LOL, it's not guts, it's either not
true, or it's so dam minor that nobody reporting on *Linux*, as opposed
to politics, gives a flying flamingo.
Here's an interesting take on Lunduke:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/muc18q/whats_the_deal_with_bryan_lunduke/
Now those of you who have known me for more than a week know that I
always call out fallacies in debates, and I'm sure you recognize my
discussion of Lunduke as an Ad hominem fallacy. Just because he's
usually wrong doesn't mean he's wrong about this particular thing.
However, when time and time again, he's almost the sole source of a
viewpoint, and the viewpoint always has the same agenda, I think we
should think twice before passing on his viewpoint. I found no
supporting evidence for this "OpenSuSE banning conservatives" thing.
On a personal note, I don't like him contaminating the Free Software
ecosystem with American politics.
SteveT
Steve Litt
http://444domains.com
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