To avoid disappointing anyone later who wants to ascribe beliefs to me, I am pro-immigrant and pro-LGBTQ. I’m also pro open source and have committed myself to guiding people out of closed ecosystems into open ones. This is not posted under duress, but under a realization that
@cmonkey you're doing great.
@cybereality Thanks Andres, hope you are doing well.
@cmonkey This doesn't mean you'll stop working with projects like Omarchy just because some lunatics hate an author's politics, right?
@NukeyMcMeltface I’m not going to call anyone a lunatic, whether they are for or against Omarchy.
@cmonkey Do you support Free Software? Open source is meaningless.
@lyzantine Now this is the kind of purity test I can appreciate!
@cmonkey Just bought our second framework, don't let em get you down, you guys are doing great things!
@michielr2 Awesome to see!
@cmonkey The whole situation is crazy. You’re doing a great job man, framework laptops are great. Thank you
@_architected Thanks Vlad.
@cmonkey I would disengage from all of this political garbage asap. You will get baited into saying something, some bad faith shithead will take it out of context, and it will get plastered all over the web. Then you’ll feel the need to respond to that, etc etc etc
@cmonkey With all due respect, you cannot call yourself pro-immigrant and/or pro-LGBTQ and the proceed to do business with people who are so very openly not and worse. Do better.
@cmonkey Remember, when they ascribe beliefs to you they don't actually think you believe them. They do it to justify attacking you. That's why they will repeat the lies ad nauseam even after being corrected. They don't care about the truth, they just want to harm you.
@cmonkey But the real question is are you pro-LGTVHD+ ?
@cmonkey I don't share your beliefs, but I don't have to in order to respect you, and I certainly don't have to share your beliefs to appreciate your company, its ethos, and its products. Isn't this how it's supposed to work?
@cmonkey Someday, I'll own a Framework! Meantime, I have to be content with hundred dollar obsolete windows devices, redo the thermal paste, upgrade the RAM, Swap original drive with an SSD, add an HDD drive in the optic bay, and load up some flavor of Linux. Finishing up one, will give
@cmonkey I sincerely hope you can continue to support Omarchy and Hyprland. I bought a FW12 largely because of the posts you made about being committed to having Omarchy run smoothly on it. It would be a real shame to have something as silly as personal politics get in the way of that.
@cmonkey based on the playbook, they are going to state them for you anyway
@cmonkey Alright, how about you dont give money to projects with explicitly hateful leadership then? your personal beliefs dont mean anything if you dont act according to them.
@cmonkey You can’t please them all. Extremists (on both sides) are louder, but we must never forget they are the minority. You are not trying to push any agenda; you did nothing wrong, and you don't need to explain. But if you feel you need to, go ahead. Most people will understand.
@cmonkey This response is fine and your personal views have nothing to do with this at all. Please whatever you do don’t let yourself or Framework be bullied by an aggressive and loud activist mob. If they decide you are a “bad guy” nothing you do will ever win them back.
@cmonkey Brother, the people that matter don’t care and those that don’t will not be satisfied by whatever struggle session or purity test you preform.
@cmonkey Responding to the harassment only encourages the harassers. They are petulant children looking for a reaction. You just gave them one. Now they know they can pressure you into saying things you wouldn't otherwise say.
@cmonkey You failed the test. Your beliefs are not for public consumption. No one has a right to your thoughts. The angry mob least of all.
@cmonkey You should re-examine the exact kinds of people you've excited. These people, and specifically the guy's distro you're funding and bringing attention to, want you deported
@cmonkey I'm sure some will still spin your words somehow. Whether your stance is made clear or not, what matters is the commitment to open source, funding good projects, and the crew at @FrameworkPuter working hard to make better products keeping the core principles at heart. Actions 🙏🏽
@cmonkey What does “pro-LGBTQ” mean to you? Do you support males in female-only spaces?
@cmonkey Trouble is DDH has been fairly visibly racist, and so (as I'm sure you are realising) when you have a twitter love-in with him, that smell is going to stick to you. You should hang around those people less, and spread the love elsewhere in the linux ecosystem.
@cmonkey Well im not buying your shit computer then.
@cmonkey I'm just sad the open source community ends up with such dumb discussions. Keep up the great work.
@cmonkey This is all simple. Legal immigration is not illegal immigration. People get confused there. Do whatever you want with whoever you want as long as they say it's ok and they aren't kids. Don't expect any special rules because of the things mentioned here. Build cool stuff.