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[–] rtxn 93 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The comments under the article are a special kind of braindead.

[–] TheGrandNagus 68 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Always is with Phoronix comments.

You find everything there from "Gnome is satanist" all the way up to pro-genocide crap.

I really don't know what it is about the site that brings out the craziest souch.

[–] SquirtleHermit 41 points 2 months ago (5 children)

For half a second there, I was like "yeah, so glad Lemmy is more rational than that site".

Few comments later, folks be talking about "Ukranian Nazis"...

[–] Jesus_666 20 points 2 months ago

Hoo boy, you weren't kidding. I find it amazing how quickly this went from "the kernel team is enforcing sanctions" to an an unfriendly abstract debate about the definition of liberalism. I shouldn't, really, but I still am.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Hahaha I saw the parent commentor of that chain notorious for getting into back and forth arguments, sometimes reasonable sometimes not, and I thought to myself, this is going to be fun. Then I recognized the username of that other .ml user as a known troll and I was like, yep now this is going to go way off the rails.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] GeneralInterest 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I would wager that every country has far-right elements, including Russia.

What Russia claims though is that the Ukrainian government is full of Nazis, which I don't think is true.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The wager isn't whether countries have "far-right elements". The wager is which country has a government that openly venerates a man who slaughtered Jews and Poles for sport. Maybe someday you will understand what happened here.

[–] GeneralInterest 1 points 1 month ago

How does Zelenskyy's government venerate Bandera? Zelenskyy apparently dismissed his ambassador to Germany after the ambassador defended Bandera.

The Kremlin pushes the idea that the government of Zelenskyy (a Jewish man) is full of Nazis, because they think this justifies their invasion of Ukraine.

In reality it seems to me that Russia is behaving like Nazis, not Ukraine. Russia is the one that has launched an invasion of conquest, just like the Nazis did.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Bcachefs sucks because I use ext4"

[–] LupertEverett 4 points 2 months ago

The absolute disregard of having any moderation is what does that. If there was any, there wouldn't be the cases like having someone be there by their third account, after the first two got banned.

Not to mention that controversy = angry people and trolls = more clicks = more ad revenue. I don't think Michael wants to miss out on it.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago

Yeah. Why is everyone saying this is removing their contribution credits? It's just a list of active maintainers...

[–] custard_swollower 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is not an unusual comment section on Phoronix, to put it mildly.

[–] rtxn 12 points 2 months ago

That's a fair point. I rarely read comments on news articles, but morbid curiosity overpowered my self-preservation instinct.