Disaster Richard Stallman resigns from the Free Software Foundation and his position at the MIT

RMS has resigned from some honorary position at MIT.

To the MIT community,
I am resigning effective immediately from my position in CSAIL at MIT. I am doing this due to pressure on MIT and me over a series of misunderstandings and mischaracterizations.
Richard Stallman
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Looking back on this shitshow, I actually don’t think Stallman is a pedo or that he wants to fuck kids. He’s a degenerate sure and thinks kids can consent to sex with an adult, but he’s not a pedo. He’s just to autistic to know when to not say some things and let some things slide. Like, he thought he would win a argument with facts and reason by saying that Marvin Minsky didn’t know he was fucking a 17 year old on Lolita Island. Most people wouldn’t dare to do that because not only do they have qualms with pedos (even if Stallman is a sorta right in saying the difference between a 17 year old and 18 year old is pretty minuscule (but massive when you compared to the difference between that age and a fucking elderly man which he conspicuously omits)), but he can see the connection between a sex pervert old man fucking an underage girl that could be his granddaughter on an island notorious for pedophilia. And his enemies took advantage of his retardation and fucked him over, really unrightfully since it was his foundation and he himself didn’t do anything of an abhorrent nature, just something mind-bogglingly stupid and pointless. Who did he think he was going to convince with his argument? I mean, the lesson to learn from this debacle is that don’t say stupid shit that can fuck you over with any platform or person or thing that can fuck with your livelihood. Just keep your fucking dumb takes to yourself. Richard didn’t and unfortunately he got fucked for it
 
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So, I've actually met the dude in person. He's pretty much the definition of eccentric genius, by which I mean autistic as all fuck.

This entire thing is just progressive bullies banding together to kick the autistic kid with no social skills. Kind of disgusting, really. In life as in kiwifarms, watch the autist have a meltdown from far away, don't fucking punch down.
 
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ConfederateIrishman said:
I... don't see this burning out; It is too entrenched in Academia. At best I could see things slow down for a few years until the current status quo is the new normal and, as one hypothetical example, accepting "passable" transexuals becomes something a true conservative would do; Of course, someone who has an opinion more extreme that will be considered fringe at that point.
I mean, it has already happened with Gay marriage, a thing Politician were mostly afraid to support before 2008, so why would it just stop here?
The only question I wonder is how fast or slow this will continue to happen.

Most likely, unless China manages to suddenly collapse, I see them being able to utterly stomp on the West in all things once enough time has passed to ensure its foundations are truly rotted through (and there are enough potential collaborators who feel they have no future).
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It took gay marriage close to 50 years after the 60s hyper-PC zeitgeist to become accepted and that was only after they had violently purged their most extreme members.

If transgenders follow the same trajectory you'll likely be old and decrepit when widespread acceptance happens and they'll be a new idiotic social trend that will make them seem quaint.

Even then it's not like trannies were hated before militant internet troons and the self id fad that started in 2015 began pissing people off * probably because they are such a tiny percent of the population that the odds of seeing one in public are slim to none *.

They were mostly seen as harmless weirdos in the 2000s from my recollection and I live in a conservative state.
 
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Stallman (whom I respect greatly) is an autistic robot and he's not interested in having sex with anything, let alone children. (Which he hates) The whole thing is ridiculous. As ridiculous as when not even 24h after the Linux kernel adopting the CoC, the tranny brigade tried to cancel T'so, a verteran developer (responsible for things like ext4, the default linux filesystem) on similarly ridiculous merit. The trannies got a bit too drunk on power back then and they fell flat on their nose. I've been wondering for a while that what happens currently in tech and all this fabricated outrage is the political maneuvering of more powerful actors in the background that instigate these online mobs to try to force certain figures out of their position. It all seems a bit too random for that, yet who knows.
 
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AmpleApricots said:
Stallman (whom I respect greatly) is an autistic robot and he's not interested in having sex with anything, let alone children. (Which he hates) The whole thing is ridiculous. As ridiculous as when not even 24h after the Linux kernel adopting the CoC, the tranny brigade tried to cancel T'so, a verteran developer (responsible for things like ext4, the default linux filesystem) on similarly ridiculous merit. The trannies got a bit too drunk on power back then and they fell flat on their nose. I've been wondering for a while that what happens currently in tech and all this fabricated outrage is the political maneuvering of more powerful actors in the background that instigate these online mobs to try to force certain figures out of their position. It all seems a bit too random for that, yet who knows.
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Tech industry became the dumping ground of rich offspring who got the short end of the genetic stick and who are also faggots.

This what also happened to the church during the middle ages.

The only thing these people know are surface level politics, they don't know anything else. So they push agendas to try and look smart.
 
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Fish Doctor said:
the more likely outcome is we bow down to our Chinese overlords.
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They're not really all that innovative either. They steal designs and techniques -- they make copies of things dreamed up in the west instead of coming up with things on their own. Once technological innovation starts to slow down in the western world (it arguably already has) you can expect to see China's "innovations" start to dwindle too.

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RadicalCentrist said:
Oh but it's getting there, the same as all other fields. One POZload at a time. Remember that bridge that collapsed immediately after being built? All diversity hires. Media hushed it up real quick. It will happen again and again until there's nothing but The Party.
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I'm glad you brought that up. I wanted to post about it but I forgot while writing the first part of this post (pro-tip, kids: don't grow old. You start forgetting stuff. Shit sucks).

As you said, the media hushed up this accident pretty quickly, and the search engines have done an admirable job scrubbing their indexes of articles that (correctly) point out it was largely a team of women responsible for the bridge's design and eventual collapse. Our "unbiased" friends at Snopes, Politifact and FactCheck.org all felt compelled to white knight for m'ladies, rushing to scold us for daring to listen to those damn dirty alt-right trolls instead of their preferred organs of record.

Dangerous, on the other hand, had this to say:
Leonor Flores, project executive at MCM, one of the companies responsible for the construction of the bridge, had this to say shorty before the bridge collapse:

“It’s very important for me as a woman and an engineer to be able to promote that to my daughter, because I think women have a different perspective. We’re able to put in an artistic touch and we’re able to build, too.”

Although MCM is owned by five brothers, the top rung of the company is largely female, including several female construction workers. In contrast to Flores’s statement about prettiness, other engineers might argue that an “artistic touch” is less important than, say, making sure your structure doesn’t collapse and kill people.

Fox News reports that both MCM and Figgs, the companies in charge of constructing the bridge, have a record of failures and fines – and there is now an accusation that MCM hired “incompetent, inexperienced, unskilled or careless employees.”
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American Renaissance had a fun take on it too (they're more interested in the "diversity hire" aspect of this):
Affirmative-action construction may be behind the collapse of the pedestrian bridge at Florida International University in Miami, Florida. The bridge was built by Munilla Construction Management (MCM), a family business run by Cuban-American brothers. In its press releases, the company brags that it is “certified as a minority-owned firm.” It’s also identified as a “Hispanic American Owned Business” and a “Minority Owned Business” on InsideGov.

MCM has a long history of landing major government contracts, including a $128 million expansion of the Fort-Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport, two bridges in Alabama, roads, schools, and many other projects. Not coincidentally, the company has also contributed $165,000 to South Florida political candidates over the last 20 years. According to InsideGov, it has worked on 15 federal-government contracts worth $124 million.

Certification as a minority-owned firm with the “Southern Florida Minority Supplier Development Council” has tangible benefits. According to Inc.com, the US Department of Transportation “requires that recipients of its funding award a percentage of contracts to minority-owned businesses and many large companies have goals for buying from minority owned suppliers.” Legislation passed by Miami-Dade County resulted in the award of up to $50 million in contracts to the company, and 100 percent Hispanic ownership was noted as a factor.

It also doesn’t hurt that the company has given large contributions to national political figures such as Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart, Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development. Mr. Diaz-Balart is of Cuban descent, like the Munilla brothers, and he personally helped get the federal money for the ill-fated bridge.
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Every article I've found from "mainstream" news sources concerning the people responsible for designing and building the bridge either completely ignore the companies' composition, or downplay women's roles in the effort by talking exclusively about the men who own the businesses (and not, say, the CEO of FIGG, who is in fact a woman). The coordinated whitewashing is impressive, to say the least.

But yeah, it's all fun and games laughing at video game companies and journalists rip themselves apart over this woke bullshit, but it's less entertaining when other, more important industries start getting pozzed. When engineering takes the pink pill, bridges collapse. When programming gets infected, important things quit working. The smart people are leaving and the only people that are left all think fucking Atom is a good text editor.
 
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Marvin said:
Stallman quit being a programmer years ago to be an ideologue, and he wasn't a particularly talented programmer in the first place. Consider his shittastic implementation of emacs lisp.
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Picking Lisp for his text editor was a far more intelligent choice than picking UNIX for his operating system. If he'd built his entire operating system on Lisp, the world might not be in such an embarrassing place as it is in terms of software.

But hey. It's better than Windows, right?
 
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moocow said:
Once technological innovation starts to slow down in the western world (it arguably already has) you can expect to see China's "innovations" start to dwindle too.
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If you let completely talentless degenerates take over, though, they will not only not be innovating, but actively degenerating everything. So Chinese ripoffs of yesterday's technology that at least works may end up better than trooned up garbage that doesn't at all.
 
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Haha. Have you used any software or websites in the past 8 years?

"OOPSIE! The pwogwam went bye bye 😢😭"
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Ugh, no kidding. Between Chrome's "aw snap" error messages and Discord's utterly gay "websites are scary" and dumb startup messages I've just about had my fill of hipster-speak in the software I'm stuck using. Doesn't the Windows 10 BSOD have a fucking smiley on it now too?


AnOminous said:
If you let completely talentless degenerates take over, though, they will not only not be innovating, but actively degenerating everything. So Chinese ripoffs of yesterday's technology that at least works may end up better than trooned up garbage that doesn't at all.
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Yeah, I suppose that's true. God dammit. Can we at least use the Korean and Japanese stuff too? At least they can still manufacture good CPUs and displays.
 
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Coolio55 said:
Haha. Have you used any software or websites in the past 8 years?

"OOPSIE! The pwogwam went bye bye 😢😭"
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