Re: Debian, Totalitarianism, Thought Reform, what next?

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck ....

On 3/26/19 3:22 AM, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> You are absolutely wrong and I find your email disgusting and disrespectful to all the political prisoners you mention in your email.
>
> Please do not write your hurtful emails here anymore.
>
> Ondrej
> --
> Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org>
>
> > On 26 Mar 2019, at 07:58, Robin Wheeler <RobinWheeler@eclipso.eu> wrote:
> >
> > The humble & humiliating apology made by Comrade Preining last week
> > smells like the confessions that political prisoners
> > make after undergoing thought reform and coercive persuasion
> > programs.  The State 100% right and Comrade Prisoner 100% wrong.
> > Of course.
> >
> > How could Preining refuse after DAM leaks his name to newspapers?
> > So much pressure.
> >
> > Demotion like Chinese internment camps for muslims to get their
> > thought reform treatment.
> >
> > Preinings warning looks like Chinese social credit scheme.  Why not ask
> > Chinese GSoC student to copy social credit scoreboard for Debian.
> >
> > The elections look like new-era Hong Kong elections, only candidates
> > from the Party are permitted.
> >
> > Anybody else alert to these things?
> >
> >
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> >
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