▲JodieBenitez4 days ago
[-] I don't have a horse in the white house race. I'm not even american, so my voice don't count here. But I wish developers would refrain from using the languages tooling to voice political opinions. At least this package I can ignore... but the last time I used npm my terminal looked like both a blend of a protest march and a craigslist page, completely drowning the relevant informations.
reply▲OTOH you're fortunate enough not to have to worry about US/world politics _and_ all these people have written a bunch of code for you for free. So there's that...
reply▲JodieBenitez4 days ago
[-] Yeah, sure. OTOH if this forum never had any criticism of free stuff we could probably host it on a raspberry pi.
reply▲The point of a protest march is that it takes place in infrastructure that people need to use for other stuff & that it's hard to ignore. It's not just the expression of a political opinion, it's a form of activism—a way to push for change by making it uncomfortable for things to remain as they are. It's meant to be annoying.
reply▲I'm pretty glad Alan Turing expressed his political opinions in code.
reply▲sabslikesobs4 days ago
[-] Yeah. I feel there's a kind of eternal serenity to be found in truly apolitical works. For everyone to put their connection to Today aside and share in something timeless---that really feels like genuine connection to others.
reply▲I feel it's dehumanising to expect people to provide free work and hide their lived struggles. There are trans people contributing top notch code to the community - I don't want them to feel like they have to hide their existence and the ongoing persecution of their kind and produce apolitical code just because it makes some people uncomfortable to see somebody else suffer.
reply▲> For everyone to put their connection to Today aside and share in something timeless
This is a political position.
Yes, the purest form of privilege is the option to not engage with politics.
reply▲You can disable that stuff. I do.
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