On Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021 at 5:37 AM, Morten Linderud 
<foxbo...@archlinux.org> wrote:
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> First of all: Trans rights are not politics. It's about human rights.

Do you see the fallacy here? You've taken a controversial opinion, assumed it 
as fact, and framed the rest of the self-justification around that.

"Transgender" people do not exist, because one cannot change his or her gender. 
No amount of surgery or cosplaying changes this biological fact. Those who 
participate in transgenderism need help, and coddling to their delusions does 
not help them. The suicide rate has only gone up over time in every statistic 
I've seen. Clearly there's something else wrong; not bigotry or hatred or 
whatever else. More times than not, they are very closed off to anyone else 
with a differing worldview. Even within the echo chambers that are free of any 
criticism, they're still offing themselves at an alarming rate.

Moreover, rights are given to people by whom? The state. I see misuse of "human 
rights" very often in these types of discussions. No one is stopping anyone 
from doing their own thing in the privacy of their own home, so which rights 
are the so-called trans people being denied? The ability to lie about who they 
are on government-issued ID forms?

https://twitter.com/KyleKulinski/status/1455744911316332546

> You are also completely ignoring the fact that there where literally 20 
> threads
>
> about this being created and everything was stuffed into one for the sake of 
> not
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> spreading the discussion.
>
> It's called moderation.

Merging threads into one or stopping an influx of new threads is fine, but 
shouldn't users be able to find The Thread to discuss it? The one you linked is 
from 11 days ago. With all the influx of broken wifi threads every single day, 
how long do you think that'll be on the front page? One day, if that? (I would 
propose all support threads go somewhere else, but that's just me.)

> Then I guess they posted this on 4chan because they love stirring up shit like
>
> this. This isn't about helping anyone. This is nothing but FUD and being
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> self-righteous. Expecting overworked maintainers to do more while not lifting
>
> a finger and pointing at problems in an unconstructive manner.

Some people may like to stir up trouble, but are the issues still valid? Are 
there still almost 1000 outdated packages? Is the core toolchain not being 
taken care of? It's very easy to dismiss a point because of how it's presented, 
I get it, but the original thread from Billy *did* ask how users can 
realistically help. Being unable to submit diffs leaves us with no other option 
than maintaining our own local trees and making threads like this in the hope 
that someone with commit access will descend from above to help the community.

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