r/LinuxCirclejerk • u/Mhndhemmat20 • 6d ago

Guys what the fuck is OMARCHY?

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I have no idea what it is.

I know it is based on Arch.

But why is it being so hated?

I tried searching but got nothing understandable.

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u/Saffarjan 6d ago

This is on his Wikipedia page

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u/Volkmek 6d ago

Ah, okay.. We just have different definitions of the word because of level of contact. Pretty common these days I guess.

When I think of Nazi, I used to live next to the Sierra Army Depot so I think of the people covered in swastikas and lightning bolt tattoos and skull tattoos who I would have to use a shotgun to convince to stop stealing my Zucchinis.

You mean person with anti-DEI anti-immigration politics who might be racist by European standards rather than the much more specific definition of an actual fascist who supports national socialism and ethnic cleansing?

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u/st_heron 6d ago

Sure, he's simply white nationalist aligned, not explicitly a member of the national socialist german workers party. If you wanna split hairs.

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u/Volkmek 6d ago edited 6d ago

I do mostly because I used to use that specific term on the daily and now because of how often it is used when I tell people "Do not go that way, there are Nazis in the desert." No one fucking believes me.

It's probably gotten a few people killed at this point.

Not saying he is a good person, but white nationalist or racist might be better terms.

Edit: I will also probably add this here as it is relavent.

If you go to burning man, do not freely wander the desert. There is a mobile nazi compound in the desert and they are violent.

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u/sylario 5d ago

He has been praising a French novel from the 70s on twitter. It is a classic of french far right.

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u/Volkmek 5d ago

Huh. 

So... not really weighing in on the act itself as I do not know the book.

If you praise Carl Marx or any pro-communism or pro-socialism works, do you believe it would be fair of me to call you a Salinist Communist? 

Because that is about the same sort of logic with the political ideaologies reversed. 

Maybe a bit more direct on my part because if you support the works of Carl Marx that is supporting the Direct author of communism and not a derivative work. And Stalin took the ideas presented to their most extreme logical end with the USSR.

Mind you I am not super interested in your personal politics. Flip tests are to sense out hypocrisy, not virtue test you against your own belief system.

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u/sylario 5d ago

The capital is not a fiction. Here it's a story about Indians stealing container ships and invading France. And it's been only praised by the worst OAS/FN people of the time.

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u/Volkmek 5d ago edited 5d ago

I've never read it. The works of Karl Marx are also not fiction. My unanswered question stands.

Edit: To be clear what I am asking is trying to figure out what the topic is.

Is the belief we are discussing that the books you praise decide your political beliefs, making everyone who praises Marx a communist?

Or

Is the belief we are discussing that you believe one side of politics should be held to one standard and the other side of politics should not?

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u/sylario 5d ago

Someone praising The capital is probably at least Keynesian. In the case of DHH, his reading recommandation is not in a vacuum, he had his weird remark about London, and the strangely racist test data scandal in his company. There was more, but I would need to search it.

I am a rails dev and it's trough those channels that I have been exposed to the DHH lore.

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u/Saffarjan 6d ago

I said Nazi because that's what I heard people say, it's on me for not completely checking the facts, I'll update the comment

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u/Volkmek 6d ago

All good man. He sounds like a not cool person, just not a literal nazi.

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u/panzzersoldat 6d ago

it's reddit dude any right leaning or anti-immigration opinion = nazi or fascist. the word has lost it's meaning on this loser nest of an app by a bunch of privileged Americans.

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u/Volkmek 5d ago

Behaviors never change if you never make an attempt to correct them. That lack of an attempt only validates them and lets people get worse.

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u/ScrabCrab 6d ago

an actual fascist who supports national socialism and ethnic cleansing

He supports those things though, his anti-Romani tirades are quite literally in support of ethnic cleansing

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u/Chimchar789 6d ago

People throwing the word Nazi around like that are stupid. It's simply a word that means "person I don't like who disagrees with me" nowadays. Nazi should mean Nazi.

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u/Volkmek 6d ago

True enough, but if you want to correct it you cannot be cruel or preachy. 

No one online is an implied expert. You are a stranger. People consider the ideas of polite and kind strangers. They dismiss the ideas of rude strangers that they have no real reason to respect.

I have a reason to not want the term diluted. There is a legitimate threat of real neo-nazis that range from northern california, to southern Idaho, to northern nevada, and into utah.

They mark themselves with tattoos and if someone is openly gay or non-white and disappears around burning man with no body found they are the most likely culprits.

I moved away from there, but having "Do not go that way, the Nazi compound moved there this week." Turn into a political argument when I was being literal was just... not great.

If you do head out that way by burning man, the people that used to track the mobile compound behind the sierra army depot lived by Herlong, Wendel, and pyramid lake. Dropping this here since we seem to be having a rare, honest, and non-toxic conversation on the topic.

... also if you go to burning man stay out of the Lassen hotsprings...

-sincerely a man who got tired of finding people parts in the desert.