[BALUG-Talk] Richard M. Stallman has resigned from FSF and from MIT CSAIL

[Samir Faci (Dev)]

@Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com>  Thanks for posting the original thread.
I just noticed that in your first message and it's one of the few links
I've seen that
at least shows a snippet of the original conversation and sets the context
of the conversation that was regurgitated 20 times over by every
editorial.

I now return you to your regularly scheduled rants.  As you were.



On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 12:12 PM Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> Quoting David Fetter (david@fetter.org):
>
> > No, I did not. Children cannot consent to sex. Sex without consent is
> > rape by definition.
>
> The former is of course true, but nonetheless, as I said, you substantially
> misrepresented what the man said, and your non-sequitur objection
> doesn't change that.  People sufficiently interested can consult primary
> sources, which I provided in my original post as part of great care to
> stick to fair commentary and good information.
>
> His views aren't mine, so I'm not going to detail the places where you
> got things haplessly wrong in restating his csail-related postings,
> because the natural result would be that a lot of -other- people would
> then become a 'Rick Moen said [foo]' ragemob, and I'm just not nearly
> that stupid.
>
> > Whether he was fired on a pretext is not important to me. What's
> > important to me is that he had pulled shit that should have gotten him
> > fired decades back, and I'm delighted that, at long last, he's out.
>
> Without objection, I note that you changed the subject.  And I'm _still_
> not interested in arguing with you.
>
>
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