Re:25 Years Later: Interview with Linus Torvalds
by forgottenpass on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @09:09AM
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>If you have listeners you have a responsibility for what you are saying whether you like it or not.
It's this line of thinking that leads to people with minor platforms telling me to do things I already agree with, but in the most self-defeating and insultingly paternalistic ways possible that I wind up questioning my own positions because they advocated for them so goddamn poorly.
>Saying nothing even remotely political is better than completely screwing up
I think we don't understand just how badly the well-intentioned idiots are screwing it all up. See also: every Twitter fight between team We Know Best, and team Go Fuck Yourself.
It's this line of thinking that leads to people with minor platforms telling me to do things I already agree with, but in the most self-defeating and insultingly paternalistic ways possible that I wind up questioning my own positions because they advocated for them so goddamn poorly.
>Saying nothing even remotely political is better than completely screwing up
I think we don't understand just how badly the well-intentioned idiots are screwing it all up. See also: every Twitter fight between team We Know Best, and team Go Fuck Yourself.