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      Honestly I started looking into it (found some articles from 2017 where he showed Nazi imagery) and started asking myself wtf am I doing.

      Calling people Nazis over the tamest crap is so old. I’m so done with the liberal crowd on Lemmy jerking each other off over simplistic issues. Get a grip.

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        He said a no no word in a fit of rage in a livestream over half a decade ago. Ever since then he’s spent time being a better person. But internet neckbeards never forgive.

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    Awesome! I hope he will help share this with more folks, the friends who I’ve talked into finally giving modern non-Ubuntu Linux a shot love it, but there’s a lot of work to get over the damaged image created by the countless “linux user installing a browser” memes. I’m sure someone with his reach can help though :)

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      I’m out of the loop on this one? A Swedish using a Polish WM, and you call them Nazis?

      I know that the hyprland dev has strong political opinions, but I genuinely dont know what they are because I don’t care, and I use another WM. Are they really both Nazis? I dont know because I dont follow these guys. I dont want this word to be misused when actual Nazis are trying to take over the free world again

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        Vaxry was acting Polish in front of Drew DeVault and was immediately labeled nazi apologist.

        The discussion went like this:

        — is there anything that could sway your opinion towards genocide?

        — well, claiming “no” would be presumptuous, I am just a human, so, probably yes?

        — I rest my case

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    Geeez these comments guys…

    So even if you like or dislike pewdiepie. I think him showing of Linux is good. Getting more people to realize Linux exist and is a viable alternative to Windows or Mac is a good thing.

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        Both can be true!

        I think we need to avoid the monkey-brain tendency to want to assign tribalistic moral judgement tags based on OS usage. Rotten folks can use Linux and Windows as much as anybody else.

        High profile usage of Linux? Neat! By that guy? Bummer. Such is the duality of free choice. =\

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      I agree. As more regular people use Linux, it will become more obvious who the gatekeeping losers are and why they should be routinely ignored.

      “Think different” to me is “don’t let the people chronically on internet forums dictate your every move.”

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    I dunno, I’m just spit balling here, but when Google drops you from their stupid YouTube rewind videos because you said a bunch of N bombs, maybe you should just go away. I’ve used Linux as my primary OS since 1999, and my kids, aged 9 and 12 have only ever used Linux. But I’m just offering that even though he promoted Linux we might not praise him for that. I personally think he sucks, have never followed what he’s doing, but because he’s so popular his misdeeds sometimes come across my news feed.

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      That was over half a decade ago. In the meantime he has spent time bettering himself and being a decent person.

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            He was already 29 or 30 back then. Obviously you can grow to be a better person even when you are a grown ass man but definately a different situation when people do stupid stuff in their teenage years. It makes you question that was it genuine or did he do it to secure his income.

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              So like, the older I get the more I realize the myth of the mature adult is just that, a myth.

              Most adults are immature as fuck and we don’t realize it as kids because they either keep their immaturity hidden from us or they’re hidden from us by society.

              There are of course mature adults, but most adults are just big kids who never learned to take responsibility for themselves.

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      How about you being ashamed about parroting unbased allegations. PewDiePie never showed significant evidence he is a Nazi and transphobic. The two mistakes he did in his 1000ands hours of content he apologized and condemned the behavior.

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      He’s an attention-seeking edgelord and a buffoon, but I highly doubt the Nazi allegations. This comes from someone who genuinely believes in the right to punch Nazis. We need to be careful about throwing the Nazi-card in all directions, or the real ones will slip through the cracks (some have already managed to skip into positions of power while us plebs are squabbling). He did a couple of insanely stupid things that he should have grown out of by age 15, hopefully he learned from that.

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        This comes from someone who genuinely believes in the right to punch Nazis.

        Well, I see the problem now. Punching people doesn’t solve Nazism.

        If you were advocating for reeducating them, revoking their right to vote, or even putting them in prison, fine. But punching people is just some weird power fantasy, “I’m better than you because I beat you up.”

        The fact you think beating people up just to feel dominant or whatever is good politics shows you have a lot in common with Pewds… and, well, Nazis.

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          This is one of the most libbed up things I’ve ever seen a lemmygrad user post… Are you just a wrecker account?

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            Are you saying the CPC is libbed up for deliberately using reeducation and formal justice systems to resolve the recurrent terrorism problem in Xinjiang rather than using force and naked brutality like liberal “democracies” usually do? Keeping in mind that the Xinjiang policies have been effective while imperialist violence has deepened and entrenched conflicts, and that those ongoing conflicts which have been resolved through pure force specifically use lethal weapons and mass execution, not some embarrassing discount Incredible Hulk imitation.

            Or I guess we should be real here that you’re just fedposting.

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              Ok good luck with your state-sponsored reeducation programs in your Nazi-adjacent Western democracies where the left holds no political power 👍.

              For everyone else who has a fucking clue: when your government has a gestapo police state that rounds up and deports the people the state has deemed undesirable, guess what? The Nazis are already in control.

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                Do you think the Soviets should have run around slapping random people who used to be in the Wehrmacht? Do you think throwing your milkshake at some German who supported Hitler in 1932 would have stopped the Nazis?

                Punching random goons achieves nothing for the people. It is not praxis, it is not a revolutionary action, and saying you support it doesn’t suggest that you take actual steps to oppose anyone.

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    I for one am very happy to see! He is a great influence to a lot of people and showing that Linux isn’t scary will boost numbers by a solid amount ✌️