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    [–] varnia@lemm.ee 63 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    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.

    [–] Pantherina@feddit.de 32 points 9 months ago

    This. Old dude ranting all the time, refusing change, being kinda self entitled and with veeeery MURICA vibes.

    [–] RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 9 months ago

    Same for me

    He always seemed a bit strange to me. Here we are

    [–] FatCat@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    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.

    [–] cybersandwich@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    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.

    [–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 0 points 9 months ago

    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.

    [–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

    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.