I get that.
Just wasn’t very tasty.

Honestly, I too had similar thoughts ~ a decade ago.
But then I looked back at my childhood, realised how much of a fool I was and how many times I was manipulated and understood how that could have worked in this context.

While I hate dogs, I can’t really condone this.

That would be, “100% and I can bet $100 on it.”.

Let’s hope his neighbour is not on Reddit.

On the other hand, the guy upstairs me hasn’t fixed their seepage problems in years and my ceiling is watering. Maybe no HOA here.

Ahh right.
Perhaps he didn’t consider the kinds of mind games people can play on kids (which even other kids can), which you don’t need to worry about if you are just a random guy, but do need to, if you are controlling a community/country.

What kind of statements were his?

When I am talking about Linux, I am not discussing my choice of OS with others.
I am discussing my hobby with others.

This was what I was going off of.

https://odysee.com/@BrodieRobertson:5/debian-linux-is-slowly-bleeding:6

There’s also this now that I look into it, which you can base your own thoughts upon.

people who do use “-ism” labels can also be helpful people.

I don’t disagree about that either.

What I am saying is that (now again having to reiterate what I said before) if you use a *-ism extensively without properly defining it, you end up giving power to a phenomenon you don’t get to control. And someone with the ability to control it, can come in and use it for nefarious purposes, as stated in previous comments.

Exactly my point.
People can have low/no information about your domain and still be helpful people.

I love how short sighted they are.

That might not be the case.

Ever since Windows 8, MS seems to be shifting the bar for what users will keep using Windows each version. This should get all but the most compliant ones out of their system.

Next, they might have multiple time bombs in the Linux ecosystem. xz might have just been a POC.

So what we might have here:

1. Keep all easily surveillable people on the system and tighten the leashes.
2. Use the multi-point security compromisations all over the Linux ecosystem at opportune moments before they are caught, robbing the users of their systems in some shape or form.
   • I feel like they might have had to speed up their plans due to the reduced control they would have from RISC V proliferation.
3. – a. Use the opportunities from step 2 to neutralise HVTs and do whatever they want from those who become powerless (jobless/moneyless).

IIRC, it had already started taking too much RAM.
I had to upgrade from 8GB to 16GB just to be able to open more than 4 documents at once,

Yeah I was being facetious.
But a better way to say that is - Not everyone has the time to subscribe to all such things, no matter how widespread it is. And I am saying this as one that literally has “Socialist” in the constitution of my country.

“Its 2026 and in my third week here on North Sentinel Island, I’ve discovered that, despite a century of a world super power using the word ‘socialist’ in the name of their country, somehow these people have never heard the word, ‘socialism’”.

Well, some people just never learnt English

trying to get you to stop caring about what someone.calls themselves and start caring about what they do.

Guess what? I always ever really cared about what people do. And someone calling themselves something is part of what they do, for whatever reasons they do.
I don’t have a problem with this part. My problem is the direction you take after this conclusion. Words will always mean something to people and when someone calls themselves a part of some groups or when someone calls others a part of their group, politics takes over from that point. That affects the masses and masses have power.
So even if I actively try to stay out of said “masses”, doesn’t mean it won’t affect me.

btw, Debian seems to be leaking maintainers and we need to do something about it, before a hostile takeover occurs.

you’ve just been meeting socialists that know you have a weird anti"-ism" thing

No. I have been meeting people who don’t even know about the word.

You sound like:
“All good guys are ours.”
“All bad guy claiming to be with us, are not really ours.”

way too hung up on labels

When the label is your agenda and you are calling me “hung up”.

Most probably what went on was…
DoW decided to go with OpenAI for military stuff and Anthropic for covert surveillance.
So they are now giving a PR boost to Anthropic, to increase market permeation and increase their short term effectiveness.

???
Of course they do.
I don’t see your point.