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Thank you, this is exactly my experience with reporting on Omarchy. There is a small vocal group that is very determined to pull politics into it somehow, but to most (a more silent, big majority) this is not even known.

I.e., when Omarchy is reported on in my country (on local blogs) nobody ever replies with anything political, it's just about the tech. But in some circles this is very different, somehow.

> There is a small vocal group that is very determined to pull politics into it somehow

I'd suggest you go look at DHH's own account, own tweets and then delete this embarrassing comment.

Do you have examples? With Nitter and Xcancel down I can't even access twitter anymore, and it's not my habit to looking into the political views of developers. I don't really care. I liked FOSS because it was apolitical. Imagine Linus taking a political stance against all parties he doesn't agree with that use Linux. Imho this obsession with people's politics just has to stop. Omarchy. NixOS, LLMs. All interesting tech, and then a lot of shouting parties around it, sometimes both sides call each other nazis. I try to ignore them.

>I liked FOSS because it was apolitical.

FOSS itself is a political movement. the whole concept is political.

When was FOSS apolitical ?

What do personal blogs and tweets have to do with Omarchy? I guess DHH is just bad and tainted from a far left point of view. I regard that kind of thinking as totalitarian.

Yea, what a great point! It's totalitarian for a bunch of individuals to call out someone for their bad ideas. And it's definitely not totalitarian for someone to encourage governments to carry out textbook ethnic cleansing. You're a true thought-leader!

> someone to encourage governments to carry out textbook ethnic cleansing

It seems you are indicating DHH has advocated for ethnic cleansing. When did he do this?

The GP believes that countries deporting people and/or enforce immigration law is "ethnic cleansing"

No. I believe, for example, that singling out legal immigrants from Haiti, revoking their legal status, and deporting them back to Haiti, where the current state department's website says of Haiti: "Do not travel to Haiti due to the risk of crime, kidnapping, terrorism, unrest, and limited health care" [1], is an example of ethnic cleansing. To suggest this is just good ol' fashioned law enforcement is absurd.

[1] https://travel.state.gov/en/international-travel/travel-advi...

Ethnic cleansing is when immigrants have to return to their home countries after the lawful suspension of a temporary program? That, frankly, is preposterous.

Here, boss, maybe read up on what ethnic cleansing is, then feel free to join the conversation with a less silly comment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing

Also worth pointing out, apparently, “lawful” does not mean ethical. Owning slaves was lawful during much of U.S. history. Gassing Jews was lawful in Nazi Germany. The President, after spending years demonizing and lying about Haitians going on to unilaterally terminate Haitians’ legal standing in the country in order to “legally” deport them to their home country—a country we fully acknowledge is completely unsafe—is unjustifiable on any level. Do better.

DHH has repeatedly advocated for remigration. Wikipedia defines remigration as: a far-right concept referring to the ethnic cleansing via mass deportation of non-white minority populations, especially immigrants and sometimes including native-born citizens, to their place of racial ancestry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigration

Yeah, writing diatribes about how London should be white again is totally only bad from a far-left point-of-view. </s>

https://web.archive.org/web/20250925050154/https://world.hey...

Well I guess it will be if we let people like DHH shift the overton window.

"political histrionics" is an interesting way to refer to calling for ethnic cleansing

"The project is in no way consumed by politics."

https://bsky.app/profile/aly.codes/post/3mttrv3hjcc27

Also: "Omarchy is not just a distribution, but it's also a counterweight to all the nonsense that has plagued Linux for far too long. It's a refuge from the clowns and the circus that has been Linux politics since the old institutions got infiltrated." (https://bsky.app/profile/steveklabnik.com/post/3mtrdmfttak2s)

> 99% of the energy going into the distro

While not commenting on the rest, I just want to point out that Omarchy is not a distro (yet?).

Source: https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/a-word-on-omarchy/?:~:text=Wikiped...

>DHH has conservative political leanings

to be clear to those readers seeking balance, this is putting it mildly.

“Europe was better when it was more white” isn’t “conservative leanings”

unfortunately the current conservatives in the US do seem to align with those views

Appeal to the "Golden Age" is just built into the way they do propaganda, it's particularly popular if that Golden Age is long enough ago that everyone around during it is dead and can't ask awkward questions like "Golden for who though?".

The appeal to "Halycon Days" is strong but then I'm aware that based on the city I was born and the socio-economic group I was born into I'd statistically already be dead (average life expectancy was lower than my current age) and historically aware enough to know that when my country was "Great" exactly who it was "Great" for.

I'll take 2026 Britain over 1926 Britain and especially 1826 Britain.

Sadly true. I just felt the person I was quoting was waving it away as if it was a harmless irrelevance. But you’re right, appalling views have become mainstream.

it is. Conservatives are fascist wannabe.

I say this as somebody who made his living for > 10 years as a Rails dev:

Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan were conservatives.

DHH is at best an apologist for convicted criminal fascists like Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, and at worst is potentially a fascist himself.

There is a reason why some people have decided to give this distribution $8m, and not another distribution. That reason is political alignment.

Pretending it isn't, is just putting your head in the sand.

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