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Do we really need to still be pushing people like Bryan Lunduke?



Knowing when to quit seems to be a lost art.


Everyone can find their niche audience on Patreon and whatnot now, which means there's fewer incentives to guide people if they go off the rails. On the other hand, it also empowers people operating in smaller niches that have difficulty surviving otherwise, which is kind of neat.


Absolutely not. It's a shame, because Lunduke has been a voice of reason in the Linux community for some time, but those days are well over.

You don't just walk away from Qanon with your reputation intact. Bryan's slipping into conspiracy theories, grifting, and even tacit support for fascism is enough for me to stop caring about what he says.

These "Linux Sucks" videos do tend to be pretty good and he's rarely off-the-rails on the subject of technology, so I'm sure he makes some good points in this one, but I just can't look at his face or listen to him for 74 minutes.

Once you realize that someone is rooting for the downfall of democracy and the oppression of marginalized people, you tend to want to make sure that as few people as possible listen to anything that person has to say.


> "tacit support for fascism"

Can you give an example that he's expressed?




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