Americans look around at all the cheap commodities around them and think “yes, capitalism is the best system for organizing an economy”. What they don’t realize is just how much this lifestyle has been the direct result of exploitation of workers and resources in the global south, destruction of the environment, consuming at a level ~5x what the earth can sustain, not to mention US dollar hegemony and a military with 800+ bases around the world that can impose the will of capital (which realizes cheap stuff is needed to pay off the working class in the global north. When capital is no longer able to maintain this, I genuine believe workers will question this whole “capitalism is the best system ever” thing.

Entirely anecdotal of course, but in my experience people of all political stripes who make in the ballpark of $50k are fine with higher taxes on the 1%. It tends to be people I know who are in that comfortable upper-middle class bracket (let’s say earning over $100k - earning enough to feel superior to working class folks) who get worked up over higher taxes rates on those who still make a lot more than they do.

Nah this guy sucks. Obviously death threats are over the line but making his life uncomfortable is the least the Judas Iscariot of Linux deserves. We don’t need devs like this anyways, I hope he steps away from the project forever.

The DPRK has nothing to do with this.

You know it’s possible to do both, right?

Yes