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I actually agree with boycotts not being effective. I'm not exactly boycotting Framework - but I will not accept getting less value than I could get elsewhere f

by _cenw 10mo ago

I actually agree with boycotts not being effective. I'm not exactly boycotting Framework - but I will not accept getting less value than I could get elsewhere for the signaling power for repairability anymore. I'm clearly very misaligned with their politics now, and Nirav wouldn't even address these concerns head-on (there is a thread; he posted in it; he hasn't mentioned Omarchy, RubyCon or DHH with one word). It's unfortunate I feel similarly (though less strong) about Louis Rossman/FUTO, because I like it when right to repair has strong advocates.

IshKebab 10mo ago
> I'm clearly very misaligned with their politics now Are you? Or is it just that they are capable of working with people who have different political views to them? DHH is clearly right wing but I don't think it's abhorrent to work with right wing people full stop. And yeah I've read the supposedly awful things he's written. I don't agree with them but they aren't that bad. I am centre-left for what it's worth (in the UK, which is probably just left in the US). But I also have the ability to understand other people's viewpoints.
- _cenw 10mo ago
  I am not fucking around when I say incompatible with my existence. Of course I don't mean getting murdered, but advocating conversion therapy gets pretty close. https://world.hey.com/dhh/bad-therapy-08849dc9 https://world.hey.com/dhh/bad-therapy-08849dc9 I wouldn't be around if this was policy where I live (Let's put aside that the UK is in fact pretty fucked on that)
  - IshKebab 10mo ago
    See at this point you're boycotting a company for supporting a developer who wrote a favourable book review of someone that has unproven and controversial but absolutely not fringe views about transgender issues that you disagree with. > I wouldn't be around if this was policy where I live If what was policy? Higher thresholds for mental health diagnoses? Cancel culture isn't a good thing, left or right.
    - _cenw 10mo ago
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    - ixci 10mo ago
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      - _cenw 10mo ago
        You can believe whatever bioessentialist crap you want as long as you leave us alone.
        ixci 10mo ago
        That advice would be much better directed toward the activists trying to force "gender identity" nonsense into law and policy.
        _cenw 10mo ago
        Name a law that fits this category that'd personally affect you.
        ixci 10mo ago
        Section 51 of the California Civil Code, for example.
        _cenw 10mo ago
        Personally. Not extrapolating from whatever toxic waste you consume online. My bet is that you're not even in California. But even if you are. What hardship has an open definition of sex to include gender identity and expression inflicted upon you. Please, be specific.
        ixci 10mo ago
        My local gym has men in the locker room and it's illegal for the gym to kick them out as these men say they are women. I changed gyms because of this but this only avoids the problem. Many women quietly self-exclude.

by _cenw 10mo ago

IshKebab 10mo ago

> I'm clearly very misaligned with their politics now Are you? Or is it just that they are capable of working with people who have different political views to them? DHH is clearly right wing but I don't think it's abhorrent to work with right wing people full stop. And yeah I've read the supposedly awful things he's written. I don't agree with them but they aren't that bad. I am centre-left for what it's worth (in the UK, which is probably just left in the US). But I also have the ability to understand other people's viewpoints.

_cenw 10mo ago
I am not fucking around when I say incompatible with my existence. Of course I don't mean getting murdered, but advocating conversion therapy gets pretty close. https://world.hey.com/dhh/bad-therapy-08849dc9 https://world.hey.com/dhh/bad-therapy-08849dc9 I wouldn't be around if this was policy where I live (Let's put aside that the UK is in fact pretty fucked on that)
- IshKebab 10mo ago
  See at this point you're boycotting a company for supporting a developer who wrote a favourable book review of someone that has unproven and controversial but absolutely not fringe views about transgender issues that you disagree with. > I wouldn't be around if this was policy where I live If what was policy? Higher thresholds for mental health diagnoses? Cancel culture isn't a good thing, left or right.
  - _cenw 10mo ago
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  - ixci 10mo ago
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    - _cenw 10mo ago
      You can believe whatever bioessentialist crap you want as long as you leave us alone.
      - ixci 10mo ago
        That advice would be much better directed toward the activists trying to force "gender identity" nonsense into law and policy.
        _cenw 10mo ago
        Name a law that fits this category that'd personally affect you.
        ixci 10mo ago
        Section 51 of the California Civil Code, for example.
        _cenw 10mo ago
        Personally. Not extrapolating from whatever toxic waste you consume online. My bet is that you're not even in California. But even if you are. What hardship has an open definition of sex to include gender identity and expression inflicted upon you. Please, be specific.
        ixci 10mo ago
        My local gym has men in the locker room and it's illegal for the gym to kick them out as these men say they are women. I changed gyms because of this but this only avoids the problem. Many women quietly self-exclude.