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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 18:28:24 JST Aral Balkan

   Folks, let cut tech folks complying with fascist demands some slack.

   We all know the French Resistance were fearless but even they drew the line at refusing to merge pull requests.

   #fascism #USA

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     Samuel Hautamäki (sirobsidian@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 17:01:03 JST Samuel Hautamäki

     @aral He could've delayed it for sure, but I don't think he would've wanted to risk his job for this.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 17:01:03 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Samuel Hautamäki

     @sirobsidian The decisions we make make us who we are. You don’t have to pull a literal trigger to be a collaborator. Sometimes you can just push a button.

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     Samuel Hautamäki (sirobsidian@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 17:05:16 JST Samuel Hautamäki

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     @aral That's true, the "I was just doing my job" only goes so far, but I do understand why he would choose to comply with the executive order. I probably would have done the same, and I don't like the current US president.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 17:05:16 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Samuel Hautamäki

     @sirobsidian I understand also. People complied with all sorts of executive orders in Nazi Germany too.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 18:33:34 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Claudius

     @claudius Right? We’re simply holding tech folks to too high a standard.

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     Claudius (claudius@darmstadt.social)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 18:33:36 JST Claudius

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     @aral it is historically accurate that in the french revolution not a single merge request was refused. Not one. It was simply unheard of.