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With so much money you can make gaming on Linux (without obstacles) a reality in 1 year... And Linux just by the fact that it exists made more for equity and justice then any other corporation already. It doesn't matter if you are rich or poor, black or white - Linux works the same.

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Because ethics is a key reason to use Linux... I find facts such as these, and the choosing to discriminate entry to conferences to people based off their politics... to be incredibly concerning. Does this mean FreeBSD (or one of the BSDs) is the answer for a truly free and ethical operating system? Or is the Linux Foundation's obvious political and newfound corporate bias not an ethnical issue for the user? Questions to be pondered.

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Yeah, many projects seem to be infested with these kinds of leftist ideas now. Not liberal as in free speech and free beer and free association, but hardcore authoritarian leftists like Nazi Germany and if you disagree with them they will try to character assassinate you for calling it out.

Mostly it's just manipulative behavior to get at the funds and have social status through virtue signaling and false virtue

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Uh, Nazi Germany was hardly "leftist". They ostracized and persecuted leftists (aka Marxists), just as they did Jews and Gypsies. They were right wing Fascists. Just sayin' ...

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WRONG, the NAZI's party was a socialist party. Here are some Hilter quotes on socialism, communism and capitalism

https://youtu.be/eCkyWBPaTC8

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Well, to use your use of capitals, WRONG. The National Socialist German Workers Party - the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei - wasn't "socialist" anymore than the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) is "democratic". To quote a scholar on the Quora forum,"They called themselves Socialist because socialism was popular with German workers. It was a marketing tool." The Nazis wished to convert German socialists at the time from internationalism to German nationalism. Please review your history before rudely fuming WRONG to something you don't understand. Hitler's closest ally in Europe was Mussolini, most definitely a fascist and a leader of the Italian National Fascist Party. At least Mussolini never tried to diguise his fascism as being other than what it was. Both Hitler and Mussolini were arch enemies of the Communists under Stalin of the USSR. Both the far right, represented by fascists (of which the Nazis of Germany were a German variety) and the Communists of the left are indeed authoritarian.

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Lets examine a few FACTS, the government controlled, the economy, industry was nationalized, the state controlled and owned most of the capital, yup, if it quacks like a duck it's a duck. BTW, any student of history would know that this always happens, and it always from the left " who are largely the collectivists"

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So your misunderstanding is the globalist bit of Marxism/socialism. The socialists want to supposedly liberate workers everywhere, and destroy national borders everywhere so that people could supposedly cooperate more freely. Hence the slogan, "Workers of the world unite." Does it work no? No, not in the slightest. But the internationalist bit is what seperated the nazis from the socialists. Fascism was really brought to the public by Musollini as a modification of socialism, so you aren't totally wrong. The nazis wanted to grind other populations to dirt in a racially based hierarchy. It was Duetcheland uber alles, which is opposed to workers unite. They are both terrible systems but the difference between breaking down borders to "free the working class" and racially based conquest are very different.

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They are exactly the same, because the kulaks are no different than the Jews

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Also why get mad about this? Are you imprisoned in a Gulag or labor camp? No then take a deep breath and count to ten, and remember the internet makes us all a bit dumber

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