The Burden of Leadership: Why Richard Stallman Was Right to Step Down

Post by vehementi » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 3:52 PM UTC

tunesmith wrote: post #18

vehementi wrote: post #12

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I do it all the time (not to claim I am very smart though). I had to catch myself trying to defend Stallman in this case all day today. Little picture: Stallman is basically reasonable in his email thread, all the headlines are outright lies which wholly discredit their newspapers/sites Big picture: he is still a huge creep and should have been gone from leadership positions decades ago To me it's when I see somethin…

Thanks for replying - why do you think you want to do that? Although, I can see a good reason for it in a case like Trump, if it's from the point of view of someone that is trying to muster resistance against him - from that perspective, true arguments against him are clearly better than false arguments, as the latter can be counterproductive. So I totally get that.

Post by agateform » Thu, Sep 19, 2019, 3:38 PM UTC

agateform wrote: post #14

The following is the quote from RMS found on page 16 in the document posted by vice https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6405929-091320191420... "We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing. Assuming she was being coerced by Epstein, he would have had every reason to tell her to conceal that from most of his associates." The following quot…