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[–] tired_n_bored 8 points 28 minutes ago

It's called "being a decent human". It doesn't take much but the right just can't comprehend that

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 hour ago

Linus is my favourite centrist <3

[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 hours ago

Linus. The hero we need. But not the hero we deserve.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 6 hours ago

It's times like these where you're reminded that Linus is awesome.

[–] [email protected] 151 points 8 hours ago (20 children)

Just how fucking dense do you have to be in order to be surprised that a man who created one of the most popular operating systems on Earth, and then gave it away for free, might be a leftist?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 hours ago

There's some libertarians in the FOSS community as well, so it's not a guarantee, but yeah, generally you'll find that correlation.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 5 hours ago

Right wingers are extremely stupid and don't really understand what the left stands for, they fall for all fox news strawman arguments and rage bait.

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[–] [email protected] 100 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

I think he isn't a leftist, but just reasonable

[–] [email protected] 4 points 46 minutes ago

In the USA the republicans simply are such morons currently that anything reasonable appears to be leftist.

I'm center-right in Austria but US-americans would call me a woke communist (and in many regards I'm more leftist than the democrats).

[–] [email protected] 64 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

All it takes to be a leftist these days is to not go out of your way every day to be a raging cunt.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 hours ago

Basic human decency. That's seriously all it takes.

[–] FilthyHookerSpit 19 points 4 hours ago

I'm sorry, is my BEING AN ASSHOLE triggering you???

Snowflake.

(do NOT make fun of my $1,000.00 USD trump branded FREEDOM sneakers or I'll get upset 😡 they were NOT a scam)

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 7 hours ago

I see a lot of overlap from where I'm standing.

[+] [email protected] -9 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 8 minutes ago) (2 children)

I hate both religon and atheism but agree with everything else Linus has to say

Edit:

I would have edited my comment to explain why but the existing downvotes would cast a negative view of any explanation I do give since people online tend to disregard comments with downvotes

Also the downvotes killed any mental will and motivation to type up and clearly think of an explanation in addition to the reasoning above

Maybe I'll come back later and edit my comment again if I actually get that mental will and motivation back but it's not likely

[–] pulsewidth 9 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Atheism includes both those that passionately disagree that gods exist and those that simply do not believe in deities. So you hate both people that believe in deities (religion), and all atheists. I guess you left out non-religious non-theist's.. People who don't believe in theism but have some kind of pagan belief system.

That's a very small ellipsis of the Venn diagram you're carving out of people you don't hate.

Crystal girls that list 'spiritual but not religious' on their Tinder?

[–] bradd 1 points 41 minutes ago

I can relate to what the person is saying and for me it's more about people knowing something that they can't prove.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Wait, do you mean theism and atheism, or explicitly organized religion and atheism?

Because the first just means you hate /~gestures vaguely~ and the second makes me question how you can hate a lack of belief in something.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

atheism isn't a lack of belief. Atheists belive that there is no god. Someone who doesn't believe in either or is an agnostic.

[–] HerbSolo 8 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

An agnostic doesn't believe it's possible to know if god exists. A gnostic thinks it's possible.

Agnosticism is about knowing, atheism about beleiving. So if you don't know if god exists but firmly believe the idea is a load of crap you're an agnostic and an atheist.

[–] arken 2 points 27 minutes ago

To be pedantic, gnosticism is a christian sect from the first centuries BC. γνῶσῐς means "knowledge", which is where the word agnostic comes from, but the term "gnostic" was already spoken for so to speak.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 1 hour ago (4 children)

For anybody having trouble following…

Nobody knows if God exists. It is not a proven fact.

Some people believe that they know. Some of them really, really believe it.

If you believe something that did not arrive at through hard fact, that is faith. Strong faith is religion.

So what is being said here is that many atheists are in fact quite religious—they just do not believe in God.

A good test is to explain the difference between agnostic and atheist. Anybody that insists on calling themself an atheist after that has is acting on faith ( not fact ) and has religion.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 7 points 50 minutes ago

Prove that the Jersey devil doesn't exist. Do that, and you will have made me into a religious atheist and we'll all point and laugh at me.

Or, is it only reasonable to give these special privileges to some hypotheses, and not others?

A better test of whether someone's religious is this: do they try to convince you that atheism is a religion?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 55 minutes ago* (last edited 51 minutes ago)

I am an atheist but I believe in science and CERN would be my church.My belief goes with the Higgs boson aka God particle. I don't talk others out of their beliefs as long as they don't try to force their beliefs on me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 30 minutes ago

The science, so far, says a god doesn’t exist when measured against the moving goal posts of religion.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 55 minutes ago

I'm agnostic about other gods but my religion is not believing in the Abrahamic god as described in the bible.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Atheism is exactly that though. Theism is a belief in a higher power, atheism is the opposite. That's what the "a" prefix indicates - an opposite.

[–] III 5 points 53 minutes ago

The reason these people can't comprehend lack of belief is because they are stuck thinking god is a default state - that it requires belief to assert it isn't real. When in fact the concept of god is no different than every other deity, Greek god, unicorn, space teapot... you name it. It is nothing more than a regionally popular unfalsifiable claim. They can't wrap their minds around who the burden of proof falls on.