In the recent Lemmy developer update, there’s a reference to one Lemmy developer, SleeplessOne1917.
I found some horrifying comments from this user.
https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/2649200 - “There is no such thing as an Israeli civilian. All settlers are valid targets.”
https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/2649472 - “15 year olds are military age. That makes them valid targets for killing.”
https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/2649732 - “… There is no such thing as a zionoid civilian. Everything that moves and isn’t Palestinian is a valid target. …”
Webarchive: https://web.archive.org/web/20231009171047/https://lemmy.ml/u/[email protected]
Edit: New comment from the user “Cry more. Israelis need to be eliminated. Death to Israel, and death to Amerikkka!”
https://web.archive.org/web/20231009171510/https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/2592588
https://web.archive.org/web/20231009171739/https://lemmygrad.ml/post/750810
https://web.archive.org/web/20231009171907/https://lemmy.ml/comment/4569805
https://web.archive.org/web/20231009172817/https://lemmy.ml/comment/4413706
The Lemmy devs are tankies, they also deny chinese human rights violations and deny genocides.
Block lemmy and move on. -6000 points? Holy shit
Personally, I would accept a PR from a convicted murderer if the code was good. It would be a problem I would have to have meetings with this person but if he just submits code why would I care? There are no political opinions in code. It’s not like code written by a rapist somehow pollutes my codebase.
What a creepy asshole. He should probbaly get back to /pol/, seems like he’d fit on there better.
There is no indication whatsoever that @SleeplessOne1917 is the same person as @cannotsleep420. Jesus, people, stop pissing yourselves for the literal 30 seconds it took to fact check this bullshit claim.*edit: I took the liberty of finding the actual dev’s account: /u/[email protected]. It took a whole additional minute. You’re welcome
*edit 2: /u/[email protected] has some links below that do indeed link /u/[email protected] to /u/[email protected]. Soooo, while I don’t regret my nearly infinite capacity for skepticism, but it looks like this story has some legs. Hat tip to NOT_RICK, who is adamantly not Rick.
FYI, you can make an instance agnostic link just by typing /u/[email protected].
Unfortunately this is a very classic far leftist take. Easy to blindly justify a cause you’ve been told to believe in when you simply dehumanize what you’ve been told are the villains
Seriously? Unlike all the warm supportive right wing dehumanization. That person is sick. They’d be sick on either side of the aisle. Making this a left/right thing is small of you. I don’t know you so I didn’t expect better, but in a general sense I hoped people were better than what you’ve demonstrated here.
I thought we were already aware that the devs are deranged lmao
I mean yeah, but I do like knowing who and in what way.
*hexbears: that’s why I’m here
Welp. This has been an education in how deranged this place is.
This is difficult. I don’t contribute code yet, but knowing that these kind of people might have a say in the development of Lemmy, I’m not sure I want to contribute. Maybe [email protected] will be more welcoming… dunno.
Pease consider the opposite; if a fork is needed at some point in the future, we need people who are familiar with the codebase. It would be, for example, much better for 3 of 4 contributors to be sane than only 2 of 3.
Friendly reminder that it’s very easy to sympathize with the plight of the Palestinians without glorifying terrorists.
For a similar example, I support the cause of a United Ireland but that doesn’t mean I support the IRA. Be better than that.
How about we stop both sides from killing people considering it’s been going on for hundreds of years and nothing has changed.
This conflict doesn’t exist in isolation. This is part of a larger geo-political struggle with the decline of US influence in the region being taken-up by Iran. Much of this could have been avoided if the US never invaded Iraq. If only I had a time machine…
You know, I came to lemmy because I was disgusted with the reddit admins and devs. And this shit just is not helping.
Switch to kbin!
Understand that the Lemmy devs do not have ultimate power over your instance, and that your instance admins may feel very differently to them
Idc about his political views. I’m still thankful he is talking the time to working on developing lemmy.
Right now there’s a million spicy takes on this conflict.
Would you feel the same if he supported nazis putting jewish people into gas chambers?
I’m sure some of the Foss software I use has had nazis contribute. It doesn’t worry me what a random non political figure says on the internet.
Nice job dodging my question bozo.
That’s not dodging your question. I answered that I don’t care. Actual nazi’s have made contributions to some of the technology we use today and you aren’t kicking up a stink about that.
Good God man.
Just because there are competing perspectives does not mean that all perspectives are equally appropriate.
Just because someone does something that benefits you personally does not give them a free pass for being a fuck head
He made the comment on an instance that supports that kind of extreme speech. The comment was appropriate in the place that he made it. I don’t care if someone’s a fuck head its not a big deal to me.
this is not just some “political views” or a “spicy take” this is someone advocating for the murder of a group of people. you can’t just centrist your way out of this
War is dirty, always has been.
And the year/decade long war/geconide in Palestine/Israel? Sponsored by the west and an utter humanitarian shitshow.
Standing on their own, those statements are sure horrible. But you gotta see the grand picture, then you can only despair and perhaps turn your gaze away or you will be plagued by sleepless nights.
Good time to switch to Kbin I guess
