Some of the very worst of the worst liberal takes, apologia for fascist shit, and of course cryptobro grifts and even Tesla worship keep coming from there. It’s fucked.

I don’t want to say all programmers or tech workers are like that, but I don’t like what I’ve seen so far from people with a .programming suffix on their names. disgost

  • supermangoman [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    @[email protected] what are your intentions when making posts like this?

    I took a programming job because it is my primary skill, and I needed insulin so I wouldn’t die. I was 40k in medical debt and couldn’t even get a goddamn apartment.

    My fellow workers, programmers and engineers, labor to survive. They’re not likely to warm to Socialism when they see terminally online takes like this. Why would they?

      • supermangoman [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Consider your rhetoric, and the reactions caused:

        I don’t want to say all programmers or tech workers are like that

        I don’t think you intend it, but this otherizes a group of us workers. It’s not just “wtf is up with programming.dev,” but instead this now plants the idea that maybe there’s something wrong with this group, specifically. Not just that there’s an issue with some random Lemmy instance.

        Look at the reactions, the culture this kind of post creates:

        Engineers are vastly over-represented among extremists

        Also on the business side of things it’s filled with the worst people imaginable and if you survive your first year or 2 you select for the people that are willing to put up with the worst people imaginable.

        It is common for STEM folks to have a reductive world view

        As a programmer, I’m here to say that my people are not alright.

        The ugly truth is that IT has always been an industry that caters towards the worst of the bourgeoisie

        And so on, and so forth. At the core, otherization and division. And I don’t think a majority of the assertions in this thread are even remotely true.

        To be clear, I don’t think you or anyone in this thread means ill by it. But this thread, and threads like it, frustrate me.