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this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2026
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Yes it's rage bait and most here fall face first in it.
Go petition your lawmakers instead of shitting on open source projects implementing required by law features.
It's not rage bate to inform people there is a problem so they know to call legislators.
Then incite people to call their legislators. Not openly shit on maintainers of open source projects.
I see more people here whining about systemd than about having the laws repealed. It's simple: there are currently 0 posts about that.
Is it wrong to call out those complying in advance with fascism? I will agitate in any way that sparks debate and encourages people to be more aware of what is at stake. I gain absolutely nothing else, especially on Lemmy... maybe if this was Reddit you could accuse me of being some shill farming karma. But that shit culture doesn't exist here.