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I knew something was off, I never really could watch his channel for some reason. This is one more hint that my intuition wasn't wrong.
This. Old dude ranting all the time, refusing change, being kinda self entitled and with veeeery MURICA vibes.
Same for me
He always seemed a bit strange to me. Here we are
Thats fine, but I also would argue against this kind of purity testing. Where a person is written off because they disagree with you on one or two issue. There are a lot of colorful characters in the community so you would quickly end up very alone...
I think overall DT is a good advocate for FOSS.
I like this point of view. I struggle with it myself. It's the reason I didn't watch this video when he released it. I didn't want to write him off. He's made a few comments here or there over the years that has let me glean some info where he just seems like he'd be a tackleberry mall ninja type (works loss prevention/aka mall cop).
But maybe he isn't, and regardless, I watched his videos for the FOSS content and he really doesnt get political(usually ..this video was out of left field). I try to separate the "art from the artist" so to speak.
That said, I wish "artists" didn't make that so difficult.
For some reason, I feel like he would look better posing with a wooden-body hunting or sniper rifle.
I started watching DistroTube several years ago, seemed like a fairly straightforward guy, would do a few tutorials on Linux commands, aggregated FOSS headlines, did a full install of Arch in real time once.
Then one day on his channel he told a story. Apparently he worked in a retail environment, and was accused by a customer, a "minority" as he put it, of "following her around the store." He made a pretty big point that he responded to his manager "thanks for letting me know."
suspicious eye squint
Then he told the story or going to a Trump rally.
Yeah he's a right-wing nutjob. Surprised he hasn't hurt anyone yet.
His rant on Mozilla's "We need to do more than deplatforming" was my last straw. He raked them over the coals for a title and never read a word from the article.
I'm pro FOSS, and pro gun. I just can't stand people that do no effort and use there platforms to sow division though.