The first three certainly are. Most of the rest have sequelitis.

"butt stuff" as millennials call it, really is one of the ultimate defilements. The enemy and it's minions love and delight in inversions, reversals of something normal into something perverse.

There are few means more prolific or vile than sodomy.

Books plural, the first three of the Dragonlance series. I've been taking time to reread childhood favorites.

It's still top tier in terms of DnD novels, and although I give the authors a lot of flak for basically inventing Chaotic Stupid, they're still good books. A lot of their later stuff is just trading on the popularity of the original but never really managed to capture the feeling of the first trilogy. Only Soulforge and maybe Brothers in Arms really pull it off. Time of the Twins is really a very different kind of storytelling and while it works fine it still doesn't capture the original.

Dunno about that, my teenage daughter has a well calibrated creep sensor.

An honest media doesn't exist.

Weather forecast calls for a storm of bullshit with occasional flurries of begging for money.

cultural reach

Oh I see the problem here. You still think this is about persuading anyone.

Why on earth would I start an open source project? Or anyone here for that matter? We have lives and we value our time.

Hardly. Saying that something would work if it wasn't for the leftist infiltrators, is the same as saying it doesn't work.

Because we won't be rid of them until after a continent wide bloodbath.

Yeah, the pedobear.

Consumers are, as the continued dominance of Windows shows, completely retarded. Windows functionality has degraded year after year for a decade and they still control the market. I'm no fan of Apple either but then I dislike most cults.

Yeah that's the crux of my argument here. We're in a situation where we should act like dissidents, because we are.

No. Because you can get cancelled for wrong think, the assumption of theft is close to an inevitability.

I addressed that argument in my other mistake recent comment. Public participation is a vulnerability.

So let's game theory that. Admittedly to the worst extent, but let's be real we live in hell.

You have an open source project with publicly available code. You deny entry to a troon.

Said troon copies your publicly available code and goes on media blitz claiming you discriminated against him. Your bank Alex Jones's you and your supporters are largely driven off. Said troon is now the effective owner of the project going forward.

And that's easily doable to you in say, Canada.

I'd you by default don't share code, it's much more difficult to do this to you.

Closed source software companies have a similar problem that leads to their infiltration. Namely any form of ostensible public participation. If something is open to the public you effectively cannot gatekeep because of the thrice cursed CRA.

Until the right re-establishes cultural and legal control, public participation is invariably a negative and a vulnerability.

The founder of project gets kicked off the thing he created, and you're here right now arguing that there isn't anything wrong with this paradigm?

Yes. Hence my reference to gatekeeping. Organizations that don't do it, fail.

However, some forms of organization are inherently incapable of gatekeeping. I'm arguing that open source has this flaw.

I would. Know why? Because the Linux guys are getting kicked out of their own projects by "community managers".

I absolutely would conflate open source with open borders because that's the result in front of us.

"open source" is not a solution to a damn thing. It is, by design, a refusal to gatekeep.

I'd also add the overall agenda to degrade and denigrate the industry as a whole in order to establish control of a medium that continues to mock them.

Any circumstance in which we can universally abandon the idiocy of wind and solar power is one in which the left has been politically or more likely militarily defeated, and thus DEI becomes much less of a concern.

These people practically worship the sun. They won't give up their grift willingly.

His term is over before inauguration anyway. Fifty fifty they'll just murder him.

The same precedence that he sets when allowing the pedo pajeet to run wild.

That he's not fit for purpose.

Because they're demons. They are driven to defile and desecrate anything they can reach.

Your friend belongs in a work camp. And whether we win or he does, he'll probably end up in one.