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What a nasty little diatribe.
As opposed to the nasty diatribes DHH keeps spewing and subjecting the tech sphere to?
Whilst DHH is a lot of things (many unpleasant), I find it difficult to get behind someone's argument when they provide links to blog posts, but retitle them to suit their own agenda - it's disingenuous, bordering on deceit. Such subtle lies detract from the actual facts in that article and make me view the author with an air of skepticism.

Pity, because DHH is a weapons-grade plum, to borrow words from Sue Perkins, though she never used them against DHH - it's just an apt title.

I think the most salient point for me is

"Is there any chance for these people, who are shielded by their well-paying jobs, their exclusively occupational media diet, and stimuli all happen to reinforce the default world view?"

So many people (mostly American men) are insulated from reality. To use their pejorative language - when it finally intrudes on their safe spaces, they turn into little snowflakes.

How is it possible to look at the infinite diversity in the tech world, with a million opinions on matters trivial and profound, and then declare that only you have all the right answers?

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>So many people (mostly American men) are insulated from reality.

"They're insulated from reality" the Marxist chortled just moments after unironically claiming men can be pregnant.

The ruse is up. Calling anyone right of Mao a Nazi doesn't work anymore.

This is just a tired one at this point, The people who care have picked sides, the people who don't (are probably smarter for not caring) and no one who's picked a side is likely to change their mind.

I don't like what DHH has become or what he says (nor do I have any interest in Omarchy, I prefer Fedora (for many years)/KDE (recently but loving it) anyway) since "As I remember London[1]" was the final straw for me (of lots of straws) but on the flip side but if you only ever use software written by people you ideologically align with you are going to have a bad time.

[1] https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64

Honestly can't understand why DHH is still getting support from corporate sponsors like Cloudflar and Framework. Hvae we really come to the point where we can fund the useless pet projects of nazis without even considering how it looks?
The ruse is up. Calling anyone right of Mao a Nazi doesn't work anymore. Your poor attempts to paint political enemies as Nazis is blatant.