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  • gabowo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    Cautiously optimistic. His community and comments tends to be a mixed bag.

    • Marxine@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, I follow him for his privacy and FOSS content, but some of his takes can be quite… controversial, and those attract some questionable folks.

      • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        I feel like that’s the case with most tech expert channels. I’d even say Mental Outlaw is relatively mild compared to Distrotube (“if you support open-source, you should also support guns”) and especially Luke Smith (holy shit, where do I even begin).

        I watch them because their expertise in FOSS technologies is beyond question, but that is where my trust in them ends.

        • marlowe221@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          Both Distrotube and Luke Smith are firmly in the category of - I used to watch their videos until I was like “whoa buddy, I thought we were talking about Linux and stuff…”

      • RQG@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        2 years ago

        Yeah I can acknowledge when someone who I mostly disagree with has a point.

        At the same time I don’t want to give someone on the far right any platform or exposure when that in the future could easily be used for rightwing propaganda.

    • GustavoM@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      …and why exactly are you highlighting his “political preference” as a some sort of problem? This ain’t “Politics.world” as far as I’m concerned.

      • anthoniix@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        I don’t care where it is, far right fucks should be called out and kicked out. Bad political ideas are often indicative of other shitty personal traits.

      • xXemokidforeverXx@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        2 years ago

        Because as long as politics is still fighting for human rights, rather than discussing the best way to implement them, it matters.

        • GustavoM@lemmy.worldEnglish
          01·
          2 years ago

          “There is a place for everything”, and forcing unrelated subjects/situations into everyone “because its a fight for human rights” is not the way to sort/deal with it. But rather, create unnecessary noise and trouble. Or else we’d have folks saving the world by shouting against the wall(s) constantly – which is (pretty much) at the same level of importance than what is being (forcefully) proposed here.

    • OptimusPrimeRib@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 years ago

      I watch his content and its pretty good but you’re right his leanings are a bit questionable. A couple of months ago he made a youtube short about complaining about gas prices and blaming Biden because obviously POTUS controls world wide gas prices.