Mandy

It's up to you, folks - you're the board of the @fsf. You can keep Stallman and alienate everyone else, or you can do your job. #cancelstallman @bkuhn_ebb_org @mindspillage @makoshark @gknauth @HenryPoole

Like clockwork, a @fsf board member, @gknauth is up in my mentions demanding "proof." YOU are on the board. YOU are responsible for investigating. Yet YOU are in my mentions making other people do your homework for you.

Dear dudes in my mentions, “Well in MY country it’s perfectly legal for a 45-year-old man to bang a 16-year-old girl” ...not the strong defense you think it is.

Literally just spent the past few days dealing with a local nutter defending RMSs pedophilia apologia. Free and open source software is not worth more than actual women and girls.

The problem of free software is that it is treat not just as an ideology, but as the only ideology that matters. On my side I've been dealing with people who think free software is more important than opposing fascism. No surprise the same shitty attitude extends to other things.

I think there are pretty serious underlying problems in the open comm as a whole. There'a lot of work to be done to retheorise open. We need to rethink: * Decolonisation * Value of Labour * Theory of Change * Dismantling Structures of Power * Co-option of Progressive Rhetoric

There should be more communists in FOSS, if you think about it.

Yeah I don't think that's a fair thing to put on the communists. Clean up the community, get the values right, and commies will join in. There's a reason they aren't there, and it's because fsf and foss aren't lefty communities or causes.