On: Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]

[culi]

It's not RailsConf. He's banned from that. It's his own Rails World he owns

[segfaltnh → culi]

Oh wow, I forgot about this. That context is important. He's talking to an audience of adherents. There's something mildly fascist about that.

[HatchedLake721 → segfaltnh]

Can we please not trivialise the meaning of fascist?

[airhangerf15 → HatchedLake721]

> fascist

This word literally has no meaning anymore other than: "person who's opinions I disagree with for religious reasons I don't understand"

It's a one-word thought terminating cliche and shows one's lack of ability to think objectively or approach an argument rather than ad hominem attack the person.

[xiphias2 → culi]

Actually it also is a good enough reason from him to move away from both working on Ruby on Rails and using it.