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"I use Linux as my operating system," I state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. He swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision. "Actually," he says with a grin, "Linux is just the kernel. you use GNU+Linux." I don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "I use alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. It's Linux, but it's not GNU+Linux."

The smile quickly drops from the man's face. His body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth as he drop to the floor with a sickly thud. As he writhes around he screams "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!" Coolly, I reply "if windows was compiled with gcc, would that make it GNU?" I interrupt his response with "and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. Even if you were correct, you won't be for long."

With a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. he lies on the floor, cold and limp. I've womansplained him to death.

@ArdanianRight @matrix It doesn't help that most leftist criticisms of capitalism are actually criticisms of society, and they use capitalism as a strawman because addressing the actual causes of the concerns they're voicing would require a long, hard, and extremely uncomfortable look in the mirror.

@MegaGoGoMan Thanks, I was intrigued with the pee desperation, but looking at the whole thing, it doesn't look like something for me.

@matrix You can criticize capitalism while still engaging in it, but maybe you should at least avoid the worst excesses of it to not look stupid.

@alyx @Galena Copyright is needed to protect creators, however it needs to be severely cut down to lower abuse.

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