[mmastrac]

Ironically ESR seems to be siding with the authoritarians, though that was never really going to be a surprise for a lot of people.

He stopped echoing the hacker ethos in the 2000s, IMO.

One quote from him in the last week on Twitter (I was curious):

> We (the majority that voted for Donald Trump, and many others) are now past caring about accusations of racism. Even when they're true.

From a few days back, in re: dismantling of the gov't:

> Wrong. I voted for this, and more. Not thinking I would actually get it, mind you.

ESR is not a hacker, just a run-of-the-mill libertarian.

[tomrod]

Sorry, who is ESR?

[mmastrac]

catb.org, jargon file, etc.

[tomrod]

My hacker roots come from a different line. Will look it up. Thanks for the pointer.

Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond ESR

[anonfordays]

>ESR is not a hacker, just a run-of-the-mill libertarian.

You may dislike esr's comments or find him appalling, but he is most definitely, by definition, a hacker.

[snickerbockers]

>Ironically ESR seems to be siding with the authoritarians, though that was never really going to be a surprise for a lot of people.

yeaaaah, i can vaguely recall off the top of my head some quote from ESR about young black men being a mortal threat to everybody around then, and another incident where ESR was advocating the nuclear genocide of the entire islamic world as retribution for 9/11. The only reason I might be surprised to find out he's a trumpster is that Trump seems too moderate for him.

>ESR is not a hacker, just a run-of-the-mill libertarian.

c'mon man don't do the libertarians like that, they have some dumb ideas i disagree with about voluntary non-association but that's not because they're racist, it's just that they don't like the principal of the government forcing them to do things that they would probably be willing to do anyways.