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CSS-Tricks in Limbo

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Re: CSS-Tricks in Limbo

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Post by dofm »

IslandRebel wrote: post #59
drewbeck wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Someone will dig through some old forums/news group/twitter posts that someone made and use that as a stick to beat them with. This is not about digging up some old careless post. It’s about his current views which he posts proudly online. I’ll note your post pulls a classic trick: - these views are not that important to who he is - anyway even if he did hold those views it’s not that big of a deal - but also I agr…

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> Secondly, constantly berating him for having the wrong opinions and not explaining why those opinions are wrong are more likely to entrench his positions and anyone that is sympathetic to those opinions.

People have tried that.

DHH is at best a pseudo-intellectual troll.

Re: CSS-Tricks in Limbo

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Post by timedude »

Aren't all Linux distros ultimately a bunch of scripts on top of the Linux kernel? Compiled scripts, but scripts none the less. If someone made a bash compiler maybe that would help. Reminds me of when I used to compile DOS batch files to .com executables back in the day to make my work look more important lol

Re: CSS-Tricks in Limbo

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Post by IslandRebel »

brazukadev wrote: post #66
IslandRebel wrote: post #57

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I am sorry but you severely misunderstand how politics work if you believe the amount of money and some notoriety online will translate into votes / enacting legislation.

> I am sorry but you severely misunderstand how politics work I'd say you are the one that doesn't know but that's exactly how far right propaganda works. They are all saints fighting their evil enemies for a noble cause - "their country!!!" as you mentioned while also having strong racist/xenophobic opinions about other countries.

I am quite aware how it works. What you are describing is nationalism which isn't what is happening online these days. Nationalism is an older form of propaganda / State control. I am not a Libertarian/Ancap but this is a concise description of the mechanism.

> Since most men tend to love their homeland, the identification of that land and its people with the State was a means of making natural patriotism work to the State’s advantage. If “Ruritania” was being attacked by “Walldavia,” the first task of the State and its intellectuals was to convince the people of Ruritania that the attack was really upon them and not simply upon the ruling caste. In this way, a war between rulers was converted into a war between peoples, with each people coming to the defense of its rulers in the erroneous belief that the rulers were defending them. This device of “nationalism” has only been successful, in Western civilization, in recent centuries; it was not too long ago that the mass of subjects regarded wars as irrelevant battles between various sets of nobles.

https://mises.org/online-book/anatomy-state/how-state-preser...

Re: CSS-Tricks in Limbo

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Post by blactuary »

kreetx wrote: post #64
mb_thd wrote: post #35

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"people you do like" in this case refers to a website that DigitalOcean owns. "people you don't like" is a singular (racist) guy who slapped a bunch of scripts on top of Arch and somehow receives hundreds of thousands of dollars for it.

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-- cultural non-fit, rather than racist

Incredible

Re: CSS-Tricks in Limbo

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Post by ryan_n »

kreetx wrote: post #64
mb_thd wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"people you do like" in this case refers to a website that DigitalOcean owns. "people you don't like" is a singular (racist) guy who slapped a bunch of scripts on top of Arch and somehow receives hundreds of thousands of dollars for it.

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Based on his own blog post (https://web.archive.org/web/20250925050154/https://world.hey...) I would argue he does come off as racist.

There are a lot of non-white british people (just like there are non-white americans), and he basically ignores that entire population. He assumes that you are only british if you are white and that london is worse now because there are less whites there. That has nothing to do with meritocracy, and arguable little to do with cultural non-fit.

There's a lot more to unpack in that article aside from just that, but that is the most blatantly obvious one.. And for what it's worth, I don't disagree with DHH on mass immigration. But he seems to have a lot more severe beliefs than just "mass immigration is bad".

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