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https://frame.work/gb/en/blog/framework-sponsorships show me the sponsorship.
The rabid techno-elitism and boycotting of anything that is in the same air space as some bad actors is completely counter-productive and paradoxically invites more bad actors to invade and take control. To bring up the old nazi bar analogy - you don't leave the bar to the nazis, you kick them out. But instead what is happening is completely bass-ackwards - perfectly capable tools are being left to the bad actors and giving them a platform to take over.
Don't leave the tools - instead embrace them, wield them against those who would happily do that against you. Build a strong userbase and drive nuts out until the bad actors have no power and no control. You think we just left the enigma machine to the nazis and said "ew"? You think the resistance just left MP40s on the ground and didn't wield them against their oppressors? That's no path to survival.
In a time when the world is burning up and drowning in waste, Framework actually is doing something good for sustainability and repairability; but instead of focusing on dozens of actual sponsorships that contribute to actual good, some people rabidly focus on the one asshole and try to change the narrative and erase any goodwill. Omarchy isn't even listed on the sponsorship list - AFAIK FW sent him one machine and that's it. We don't have the luxury to turn our nose and go somewhere else - this is our bar, fight for it and stop encouraging good patrons from leaving. Because the silence left behind will be happily filled with nazi rhetoric.
Except they're not kicking these assholes out. Framework are giving them free advertising and even sponsorship money.
Framework claims to be making a "big tent", but if you do that you need to silently tolerate the shitty actors, not actively support them unprompted
I didn't say anything about supporting them. The hysteria is unwarranted
You're clearly intentionally arguing in bad faith if this is your response.
Ta ta, you're not worth bothering with anymore. Go lie to someone else
That's your problem. All you want to do is argue and resort to ad hominem. Accusing me of lying when I didn't lie about anything is puzzling, but I gotta admit gave me a chuckle. The only point I made is that letting bad actors have the whole cake just because they touched it is gonna leave you without cake. While people argue and bicker over who should or shouldn't the cake been given to - the cake was already appropriated and eaten. It's a pattern that repeats and gives more fuel to the opposition. You love to disect analogies, pick at words, and sea-lion to no end instead of doing something useful or putting that effort where it matters. You let emotions prevail over reason and deploy scorched earth policy. And instead of actually engaging in constructive discussion you vague post something without proper context formed by weeks of actual community discussion, and when you're called out on your bullshit you pretend to take some sort of high ground, resorting to childish language, calling me a liar. If you wanna put your words where your mouth is - abolish all modern electronics, because the coinventor of the transistor was a racist and firm eugenics believer.