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> I mostly agree, but I do think we owe it to the normies to make our part of the web approachable.

You owe nothing to these traitors who actively sabotage the goals that you deem important.



They're victims of capitalism gone-astray, not traitors. If we abandon them we'll only have each other to talk to. I don't like us enough to do that.

Besides, we have to deal with the consequences of their votes, so it's in our interests to oppose whoever would manipulate them because those manipulators are threats to things that we care about. Things like privacy, and the ability to control the devices that we "own" in ways that contradict the vendor's wishes.


Your critique narrowly misses the mark. Nothing has gone astray with capitalism. This is the market doing market shit.




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