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Author: Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
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To: dng
Old-Topics: [DNG] Azadi, or: the art of civil-isation (was: Re: systemd==bad)
Subject: Re: [DNG] Azadi, or: the art of civil-isation
On 20.02.2016 18:37, Florian Zieboll wrote:

> This reminds me so much of this infamous west german thought-terminating
> cliché to counter any kind of criticism towards the free (as in "free
> software"?) market economy:
>
> "Geh' doch in den Osten, wenn's Dir nicht passt!"


Actually, I've just heared this pseudo-argument yesterday, when somebody
tried to defend the nato's anti-russian aggression - mind that an I *am*
at what formerly was that "east" (cental germany).

Seems that method is still in use.

> There is another famous saying, I think originally by Rosa Luxemburg:
>
> "Freedom" is always the freedom of the opponent.


Hah, try that agument with socialists or communists and have fun.

By the way, sometimes I wonder whether Lennart and Comrade Iljitsch
could have been good friends ...


--mtx