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The Omarchy/Framework Thing
- eigencoder 1y agoI guess it's hard when people don't share your politics
- PaulHoule 1y agoIt's a reason why you and your organization should depend 0% on open source software because any open source software could be ruined by a bunch of people who don't get along. In my mind DHH and the people who are still fighting with him years later are all bad people and if I had the power I would cut them off from the net completely, not even let them have a credit card.
- gsf_emergency_4 1y agoIt seems plausible that the value accrued by any given extreme response to binary [discrete-classed] emotions is upper-bounded by zero One good thing about opensource: there's realtime leakage of how things are run so wiseguys have time to fork and/or pivot. Some people factor that attention premium into the routine cost of a sw business. Because the other scenario-- the downside of depending on proptech-- is not recoverable without a team of lawyers I find it heartening that lack of backprop from reality to character is (albeit not always career ending) still generally relationship-ending.. Maybe similar mechanisms can be developed wrt intra-/inter-org relations.
- dismalaf 1y agoNirav Patel is of Indian origin, DHH is Danish, Vaxry is Polish, and this whole "thing" is smug white Americans telling them what to think. No one sees any irony in this?
- tovej 1y agoNo? I don't think their nationality matters. And there's even a connection. All three countries have governments enacting extreme nationalist immigration policies (Poland:suspension of asylum rights, Denmark: atated goal of no asylum seekers, India: the prime minister is part of an ethnonationalist paramilitary organisation who has passed legislation blocking islamic asylum seekers from getting accepted). Nationalism is strong in all three countries, and when nationalism is strong, so are the most extreme expressions of it.
- dismalaf 1y agoSo now nationalism is bad? Are all nations bad? Including non-white nations? Wait until you find out what the "free Palestine" movement wants... And Denmark was formerly very liberal, the pushback is for real reasons. Poland saw the lessons of other countries so wants immigrants with shared values, they've still taken more Ukrainians than anyone. And India has been the victim of many terrorist attacks.
- tovej 1y agoDid you notice the word "extreme"? And ethnonationalism is bad, nost definitely.
- dismalaf 1y agoNone of them are extreme. You putting the word there doesn't make it so. And ethnonationalism is the rule for the majority of countries in the world. The only reason the Americas are different is because of colonialism.
- tovej 1y agoThey are extreme by any sensible use of the term. If your nationalist beliefs make you ignore human rights such as asylum, or if you specifically limit the rights of one ethnic group of people (such as India has done, e.g.) while you otherwise pretend to support liberal democracy, that is an extreme position. And ethnonationalism is _not_ the rule of the world. It is in Israel, where there is an apartheid rule. Ethnonationalism means you believe in one ethnicity being the only rightful cirizens of your state, superior to other ethnicities that live there. Every country on earth has more than one ethnicity loving there, and given that ethnocity is a fuzzy concept itself, any ethnonationalist project is a social construction of an in-group made to exclude some out-group. That is irrational and radical.