[RL_Quine]

> This time, instead of this awful cycle of disempowerment of the people, it's time that the people of the world, together, plant the flag of the power of the people on the Internet. The internet changed everything and leveled the playing field. This cannot be taken away.

By his own manifesto he wouldn't do that, and he wouldn't want to be a hypocrite.

[Doxin]

> he wouldn't want to be a hypocrite

I'm not sure that's actually true. Clearly he very much liked taking power away from a specific set of people. The guy really likes constructing this narrative where he's some sort of free speech savior, but when you look at his actions the opposite seems true. E.g. during the switch to libera if you had any mention of libera in the channel topic on freenode you'd end up with all the channel operators banned and replaced with friends of Lee. That's hardly a pro-free-speech thing to do.

[RL_Quine]

We need to standardize sarcasm punctuation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation

[phoe-krk]

Just realized taht "/s" is a de-facto standard recognized almost everywhere in the international tech world - perhaps it would be viable to submit a RFC for it that can be referenced? Plenty of time before next year's April.

[Doxin]

Oh whoops. The sarcasm seems obvious in hindsight. Apologies :P

[dane-pgp]

"Oh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention."

[phoe-krk]

> By his own manifesto he wouldn't do that

Except, well, he did.

[na85]

He's a chump and only "believes" in that stuff insofar as it lets him perpetuate his savior complex.

[doctor_eval]

"promises only bind those who believe them" - JL Gassee

[glandium]

FWIW, it's a very common saying in French. I wouldn't attribute it to Gassée.

Edit: googling it in French attributes it to Henri Queuille.

[doctor_eval]

Thanks. JLG attributed it to politicians, I think, but I was (a) too lazy to find the source, but also (b) don’t speak French. I just didn’t want to appear to be taking credit for such a sharp observation.

[glandium]

Jacques Chirac famously used a variant of it.