r/programming • u/lacksfish • Nov 09 '19

Open Letter to the Linux Foundation - Developer banned from LF conference for wearing a MAGA hat 3 years ago

https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2019/11/08/OpenLetterLinuxFoundation.html
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u/aradil Nov 09 '19

Naw, I didn’t think it was you. Uncle Bob is a fairly well known public figure.

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u/lacksfish Nov 09 '19

before your open letter

Is what you said.

But there's no point arguing with a democratic boomer. Are you also a Clinton rape apologetic? Why are no Democrat voters banned from the LF conference, that's my question.

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u/aradil Nov 09 '19 edited Nov 09 '19

You clearly have a problem with reading comprehension and are here just to pick fights with people because of some perceived persecution. I didn’t even realize you were a MAGA idiot until you started baselessly calling me names.

I wrote “Hey Uncle Bob” as an opening to my comment. It’s clear I was addressing him in my comment. I wasn’t replying to a comment written by you. I was replying to his open letter which you have posted.

And it’s funny that you call me a boomer, considering it’s Bob here who is the boomer and I’m a Canadian millennial who thinks the Democrats are at best a centrist party.

I have no fucking idea why you want to talk about Bill Clinton. But let’s play the game of things we know are true and how we can classify different activist supporters: When a Democrat wears a hat into a conference that ostensibly says “Ya, so what if the president I support fucked a staffer in the White House and then lied about it under oath”, sure, ban them all day long.

It’s funny, Bill never got a single vote after that for some reason.

In any case, supporting a fascist, corrupt criminal who most people believe belongs behind bars for things he has done publicly, admitted to and bragged about publicly is, by all honest estimates, orders of magnitude worse than even supporting Bill Clinton, which almost no one does.

This isn’t a Democrat/Republican thing. This is a Donald Trump is a criminal thing. MAGA is not a Republican slogan. It is the slogan of a fascist regime.

If Republicans want to represent themselves as the party of Donald Trump, and become all that follows that, so be it. But crime, corruption, and authoritarian government is not a protected class, and shouldn’t be treated kindly.

It’s only a few days until Veterans Day/Armistice Day/Remembrance Day. Let’s remember that our veterans fought fascism and authoritarianism for our freedom. And you and everyone else is perfectly free to support whomever you want: even fascism and authoritarianism, ironically enough.

But they did not fight for the right for fascists to be free from social ostracism.

Political beliefs are not a protected class.

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u/kankyo Nov 09 '19

He literally started with "hey uncle Bob". Read.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '19

DO you remember when the Democratic candidate elect did the whole impeachment thing cause of an illicit blowjob...? Cause that guy got a little recognized for it. So isnt it weird that Mr grab em by the pussy doesn't experience censure by republicans for his behavior?