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That's precisely the issue. There's a subset of the community that resorts to labeling anyone they deem guilty of wrongthink as a nazi or fascist and is the same crew that preach the "punch a nazi" line.

If it was just a normal exchange of ideas it wouldn't matter and DHH would be just whining, but first response was "he's a nazi" "lets take away his project".

There's crazier stuff in Lunduke's tweets from days ago including death threats and inciting violence against him on public events. I knew he was disliked by a large chunk of the OSS community but to threaten to kill people because someone attends a conference is crazy.

That is not the way to behave in a civilized society and is time people stop bending backwards to appease the lunatics otherwise there's no telling when any of us will be on the wrong end of the mob.

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> I knew he was disliked by a large chunk of the OSS community

You sound unfamiliar with him. Lunduke occupies the "Luke Smith" valley of pundits who do not actually contribute to Open Source. Even DHH actually does something, Lunduke's claim to fame is politicizing technology and amplifying an unnecessary culture war. There is no open discussion surrounding how much he contributes, he is a heckler and does nothing else. His bus factor has long since passed a negative quotient.

Now obviously that does not excuse violence against his person. But there is no pretending that he's not controversial; that's the name he's made for himself. It's one that he can feel very comfortable with online, but much less so in a place like America where firearms laws are so relaxed and politically motivated violence never leaves the news cycle.

It's a tragic status-quo for America, but Lunduke is the last person I'll feel sorry for. When the mob comes for him, it's because he was goading them from the sideline. He'd have done well for himself if he put his passion into something productive like Kling or Eich did.

Always saw him as a commentator or blogger that wrote about Linux back in the day and not an actual developer, each have their place and OSS.

There are plenty of more politically motivated people that have no contributions on anything, haven't built a thing and all they do is preach OSS. Some lean left, others more to the right. Although I would say I've seem more leftists like this because there's this believe among many that OSS is socialist, but to each their own as long as they're not trampling on other people's rights.

The problem I see is with some of the crazy people becoming more and more emboldened and the moderate majority just there bending backwards to appease them as if in hopes that it will calm them down, but they just increase the threat level.

> Although I would say I've seem more leftists like this

Can you cite a few sources? I've never seen a Lunduke-esque liberal pundit, I think that would honestly make my day.

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