You should organize StallmanCon! On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 11:01 PM <faifl...@danwin1210.de> wrote:
> > Lie #1 > > (This was the kickoff) Stallman is a terrible person. > > > Nope, not really. He's still a hero to many, including many progressive > activists. He's certainly outspoken. > > The people he really pisses off are what the left itself calls the > "ultra-left". I don't mean "communists", I mean people who (even among > communists) are so far to the left that humanity is pretty much incapable > (read: guaranteed NOT to) meet their lofty standards. > > In fact their standards are so lofty, that they ultimately abandon the > rest of the left (including the communists) in disgust for not joining > their ultra-left inquisition. > > At this point it's either give up on progress, come home with their tails > between their legs to the people they shunned, or find unlikely allies in > the form of moderate right (corporate) entities to pander to them. > > Hence, every corporation that has always discriminated against LGBT (even > given to orgs that lobby AGAINST LGBT rights) has a rainbow logo at > opportune times. You may support trans rights for example, you may even be > trans yourself, but you didn't rename "Master" to "Main" and Github did, > so who do you think you are? Etc. > > These are the sorts of people who have taken over LiePlanet. > > > Lie #2 > > There was no coup. > > It's just better to deny it entirely. Admitting there was a coup would > result in people other than the FSF demanding justice. We've had enough > justice in this movement for the next few decades, so the only people who > are going to get it are the ones who wanted rms out. They got him out. > Look how pissed off they were when he came back! THE NERVE OF THAT GUY! > > > Lie #3 > > Stallman came back. > > It pissed off thousands of people, so it must have happened. I mean he was > literally there at LiePlanet in 2021, that wasn't a hologram, it was > Stallman himself. And since he's back, then of course... > > > Lie #4 > > Stallman still runs the FSF. > > In reality they've gutted the board and gutted his old positions-- both > the position of Chief GNUisance and that of FSF president. > > When Torvalds came back, he had to spend more time bowing to those who > work with corporations more cooperatively. No more giving the finger to > nVidia, even if they are a terrible company that has always shafted > GNU/Linux and made a very big deal about crumbs from the table, which is > exactly why Torvalds gave them the finger in the first place. > > We all should have given nVidia the finger. Instead, we are told that Free > Software is "about hate". This is the open source marching song: open > source has all the authority. It can do what it pleases. Non-corporations > must apply for permission. Isn't that exactly what free software was > moving away from? It is, actually. Open source is the reassertion of > corporate power over users-- in technology and in what they can say. (Just > ask Mark Zuckerberg). > > When Stallman came back, he put MOST of his own positions aside to work > with the people who make the same demands now (basically an rms-free FSF) > as they did during the coup. But since that never happened... > > > Lie #5 > > Stallman is still Chief GNUisance. > > He has very specifically corrected people on this-- he never resigned from > that position. > > The reason he has to state this clearly is that someone (who went unnamed > and unpunished) faked his resignation from GNU itself. > > You would think that it would be unnecessary to state who the Chief > GNUisance is. All you have to do is go to the GNU website or read the GNU > article on Wikipedia. > > But people have been working to undermine both GNU and its leader since > 2011 (or really, since 1998.) It's NECESSARY for him to say "I am still > the Chief GNUisance" because it's the only way you could be sure. > > In reality, Duix runs everything. That was their goal during the petition > in 2019. Duix and Debian are competing to turn GNU into GNOME OS and Neil > has been spotted along for the ride every step of the way. > > It was also their goal with the GNU.fools coup, which the FSF and GNU have > taken NO action against, even though it will eventually lead to the GNU > trademark (which the FSF holds) becoming generic. But by that time GNU > will have collapsed anyway (7 years to go.) > > If you want to know who the Chief GNUisance really is, it's Duix. If you > want something from GNU, you might as well forward all correspondence to > Ludicrous Cortes. This is hardly an endorsement, I think he's scum. I will > never use Guile, I'd sooner switch to an abacus (or analog computing). > > > Lie #6 > > The coup is over. > > If the coup is over, then the FSF is grieving the loss by caving to all > the demands they had when they were bothering us. Everything is being > weakened and caving to corporate control. > > People have a very unsophisticated idea of what the coup was really about. > Obviously silencing rms was an objective (and mission accomplished-- now > that the coup is over we can look forward to having him at LiePl-- oh, > wait) because without taking care of rms, the FSF would have had to fight > back or let the members do it, like they did with Stallman Support. > Stallman Support, by the way, is the ONLY progress that has happened since > the coup. The FSF by comparison, has continued to pedal backwards every > step of the way. > > The Stallman Support website is a perfect example of the future of this > movement-- we will get NOTHING from the FSF. > > NOTHING. It's the Open Software Foundation now. Welcome to the occupation. > > But of course the coup is over-- because rms is back! They had to bring > him back to shift from coup to occupation. They used his return as a > beaten person to cover their own takeover, it's genius. Please do not > think the Duix people thought of all this on their own. This was a > corporate plan. the Duix people, while egotistical and ambitious, are > being used just like Torvalds was 20 years ago. It's THEIR turn to be the > rockstar pawns in this game. > > And since the coup is over, that brings us to: > > > Lie #7 > > These people are your FRIENDS. It has nothing to do with rms! STOP MAKING > EVERYTHING ABOUT RMS! > > > Can you believe it? In 2018 and 2019 LiePlanet made EVERYTHING about rms. > > GLOBAL WARMING! rms. > > ILLEGAL WARS! rms. > > JEFF EPSTEIN'S RANCH, CORRUPTION AT MIT AND HARVARD! rms! rms! rms! > > > > The coup was allowed to make everything about rms, because Lie #1 Stallman > is a terrible person. But Lie #2 there was no coup and Lie #3 Stallman > came back. > > Lie #4 is Stallman runs the FSF and not the coup, but he couldn't do it on > his own! > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2022-03/msg00062.html > (It's a strawman. No one, least of all rms himself, ever claimed that rms > did it on his own. But the straw man was inititated in Knauth's first > address as FSF president and people have been hammering it home ever since > rms "came back".) > > Who runs the FSF? EVERYONE! (But not really everyone. Just everyone who > didn't want rms to. That truth is plain to see by looking around you. RMS > is not in charge, or he goes to GREAT lengths to look like he's not, even > carefully disguising his influence by telling people to go against his own > principles!) > > > Lie #5 he's still in charge of GNU, even though IBM has kicked him off a > GCC-related board he wasn't even on and they control GDB as well. Part of > GNU GCC (D lang) is developed on Microsoft Github, with no plans to > migrate. GNU Bison uses Github and only mirrors to Savannah. Perl and > Python (used throughout the GNU project) are not even mirrored. > > In 2011 he resigned from having opinions on the design of any free distro > other than the license and other FSDG requirements. > > In 2015 he told people not to use Github for GNU-- several projects said > that's ridiculous and more than 20 projects that are part of GNU use > Github. > > The Chief GNUisance, like the FSF president, has no real power. > > So maybe the board-- no, the board has no real power either. > > Where is the power? Corporations! Law of Open Source #1: corporations and > monopolies must control free software. > > Mission Accomplished. (I didn't say it's over, but for now the battle is > lost.) > > > > Stallman Support fixed the FIRST lie. > > And ONLY the first lie. > > > Stallman is NOT a terrible person. > > > That leaves us with lies 2-6: > > > #2 There was no coup. > > #3 Stallman came back. > > #4 Stallman still runs the FSF. > > #5 Stallman is still Chief GNUisance. > > #6 The coup is over. > > > If we only looked at #2 we would know it's bullshit. > > #3 is a lie told to hide Lie #2. > > > If we only looked at rms being "back" we would know it's bullshit. > > #4 is a lie told to hide Lie #3 > > > If we only looked at rms running the FSF, we would know he doesn't. > > #5 is a lie told to hide Lie #4! > > > And if we only looked at the complete lack of fucks given by developers IN > PRACTICE (who do whatever they think is a good idea in the short term, and > ignore or downplay the warnings of the Chief GNUisance) we would know the > position no longer exists. > > So what lie hides Lie #6? > > > These people are your FRIENDS! > > > There was no coup! Stallman came back! He still runs the FSF! He's still > the Chief GNUisance! The coup is over! You people are just obsessed with > rms! We never spent years trying to end his career! > > > If these lies weren't all being used to manipulate the PRESENT situation > (the occupation) then surely, it would be ridiculous to claim that > defending rms from years of lying was actually mere hero-worship. > > > Nonetheless... That's the narrative that remains uncensored on > lieplanet-discuss, while (as it was in 2019) pro-rms people get lied to. > > But not censored. NO ONE is being censored in the thread wondering why rms > is being hidden from the public at a venue hosted by an organisation he > runs himself! > > > We've gone back in a full loop to 2018, but this isn't 2018-- > > Everything has been accomplished that they set out to do, now all they > have to do is hide the bodies and the rest of the evidence. > > But Wait! Everyone is accounted for! $UPPORT THE F$F! Here's rms to say > everything is good! Just not at LiePlanet, over a completely innocent > change in policy that rms wasn't informed about, but was expected to > comply with. > > > Right, and we aren't all being lied to. Constantly. Even RMS (the FSF > mascot) says it's kosher. Stop obsessing over rms-- HE'S JUST ONE GUY! > > This isn't an occupation at all. It's just Moving Forward, like it always > was. > > JOIN U$! > > > _______________________________________________ > Discussion mailing list > Discussion@lists.fsfellowship.eu > https://lists.fsfellowship.eu/mailman/listinfo/discussion >
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