[HamsterDan]

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[zachrip]

Where are you getting this claim from?

[Tarball10]

>Most Americans continue to express positive views of the military: 60% say it has a positive effect, while 36% say its effect is negative.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/02/01/the-u-s-mili...

[StarterPro]

There are at a minimum fascist adjacent.

[esseph]

Hacker culture is and has always been anti-fascist and anti-capitalist by nature, at least the version that grew in the west. It was an offshoot of hippie culture in the 60s, grew in the 80s phreaking scene, and highly entangled with open source in the early to mid 90s.

[drdrek]

I think anti Fascist is way too narrow, it's anti establishment, any establishment period. Anything anyone with power does is bad, that's the mentality for 50 years.

[saintjavelina]

Thanks for another stark reminder of how comments here are disconnected from reality. Most IRL are tired of people who call everything fascist and froth at the mouth about “anti-fascism.”

[dogman144]

Yes, it is often missed but hippies are at hacker cultures core, in terms of the root file directory. John Perry Barlow’s resume shows it all.

[ixtli]

Exactly: we live in a capitalist society which has been in decline into fascism for generations which makes the counter culture the opposite of those things.

I get the sense that because people can think of a few examples of mercenary security people or a few white supremacist groups that "hack" that this is somehow a refutation. It's not. You know about these people because 1) they usually are mean and suck and 2) they are outliers.

As you say: the phreaking / hacking / hobbist subcultures have always been collectivist by nature and the product of those subcultures will always chafe at the profit motive.

[anonfordays]

Hacker culture is and has always been anti-Marxist and anti-Communist by nature, at least the version that grew in the west. It was an offshoot of hippie culture in the 60s, grew in the 80s phreaking scene, and highly entangled with libertarian open source in the early to mid 90s.

[ixtli]

This isnt anywhere near my experience at all. People don't like empire and if you look around your life and think everyone you see would be pleased to do military contracts you're in a ( really disconcerting ) bubble.

[busterarm]

Everyone living in a western nation today is a direct beneficiary of empire.

Ask them to swap their standard of living with that of someone living without the influence of empire and you'll get nothing but hard stares.