I’m an admirer of Louis Rossmann and his efforts. In my opinion, he doesn’t deserve this criticism from Drew DeVault:

They (FUTO) push an open-washing narrative and they portray themselves as a grant-making institution when, in truth, they’re passing off a handful of small donations as if they were endorsements from dozens of respectable, high-profile open source projects, in an attempt to legitimize themselves, and, indirectly, legitimize people they platform like Curtis Yarvin.

I suppose Wolf and Rossmann are “no true leftists”, but to tell the truth, I’d love to hear @FUTO@peertube.futo.org 's response to this. For added context, this is what Mr. DeVault claims to be Louis Rossmann’s “miquetoast response” (his words, not mine) to Wolf inviting Rossmann to debate Yarvin:

10:30 and 16:30 25:52 and 37:35 were my points.

To answer some questions:

1. 23:20: I had no idea what this was even about or who curtis was until I got on stage. He was supposed to debate destiny, who is a prominent progressive neo-liberal politics streamer, whose views are the antithesis of curtis yarvin’s in almsot every way. I’ve spoken to destiny on youtube & in person before. he was supposed to debate yarvin(which is what was up on the screen). He didn’t show up, so someone asked if I wanted to go on stage in his place. I had no idea who any of these people were or what the topic was until about 4 minutes into this.

2. I believe at one point I had said that I believe that the concept of a monarchy makes no sense because government is a monopoly on force which is why it is NOT analagous to a corporate CEO, who only has a monopoly(until kicked out) on how the company runs. A corporate CEO or the director of a movie has no monopoly on force. I don’t see that here. It also cuts off fairly suddenly & the link to the original is gone. I think the entire monarchy thing is ridiculous & stupid.

3. I was there because the person who donated a million to my right to repair non-profit asked if I wanted to go to some messily organized event. I thought this was very stupid after seeing a trailor at PGwlAb-rUTE (youtube URL will be censored if I post it here, just put that in the search bar to find it), but showed up since I was asked by Eron. Eron will admit himself this was completely ridiculous.

4. The person who arranged this entire event was on the left, you’d have to see the original video to get what I’m saying here; he seems like a very nice kind guy but who also seems like he melted his brain on psychedelics. This event was a representation of this. This event was an absolute ridiculous mess that I had no idea what the point even was for it. mutahar did a decent coverage of it with content from the original ridiculous video.

5. this event had little to no food and mostly alcohol like some weird yuppie startup events, i hadn’t eaten all day and was mostly excited to get out of there. you can probably tell by my foot tapping i was waiting for this to be over & gtfoh.

Holy shit. This just shattered one of my idols. I use and love Grayjay, have recommended it people, and even paid for it. If I had known they were associated with Yarvin I would have made sure I and everyone I know were to stay as far away from it as possible.

This story needs to blow up. FUTO, Wolf, and even Rossmann need to be revealed as the fascists they are. I support right to repair, but not at the expense of democracy. Fuck you, Louis.

EDIT: FUCK, I just realized that I also use and paid their fucking Android keyboard app.

Damn, I’ve had technological disagreements with Mr. DeVault in the past. Obviously, I did not assume those to mean I’d disagree with him on everything, but it still feels surreal to read an entire post where I’m fully on board with everything he writes (and appreciate all the info I did not know).

Cool to see that he’s fighting the good fight.

That Eron Wolf has questionable ideas was clear for some time, but somehow I missed the Moldbug connection 🫠 Seriously, those Silicon Vally millionairs all have brain worms 🤦

And here we are again. Not that I want to defend those people, never heard about them before, but from the article they seem to be prime example of human trash. But the weird part is we’re (some of us are) discussing this on lemmy, where lead dev and main instance admin is tankie to the bone. And we’re here pretending it’s somehow OK to spit on one side of trash pile while enjoying the other… Why? We should treat all extremist the same, no matter if they’re to the right, to the left, if they’re white, black, red, purple or green with magenta spots, it just doesn’t matter - treat them all like they deserve.