I've always been an outspoken skeptic of FUTO (check post history) and their bizarre campaign against free software, but I didn't know they were this bad. Yikes
this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2025
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Yarvin has proclaimed that black people are genetically predisposed to a lower IQ than white people
The second part of that is true, because the IQ test is unreliable. That's why its banned in California schools for POC
That statement only has one part. Could you clarify what you mean here? I'm not sure I understand.
I think it's that the statement in question was proclaimed is the "first part". Or maybe the genetic predisposition is. Unclear.
Son of a BITCH! I'm so fucking tired of this... Everywhere you look you gotta examine EVERYTHING about a company/group because they might be fascists now...I love Grayjay, it was working so great and I loved the proclaimed mission...I was even trying to get FCast to work since I lost casting ability when I moved to Linux...
I'm just gonna take a break over here for a bit.
Giving tens of thousands of dollars to great orgs that have real free software licenses and ask for nothing in return? I'm glad we have futo.
Sorry but this person is treating grapheneos' attacks on other groups as legitimate which throws the entire article into question. If they are happy to provide a platform for graphene's founder's paranoid conspiracies I can't trust the content.
Seems clear there's some questionable shit going on, but the only evidence presented is two YouTube videos which isn't actually a lot. I wouldn't be surprised based on this to hear there are deeper links, but this article is written by someone who thinks tweets and YouTube comments are evidence.
grapheneos' attacks on other groups
Where Attack? The worst Graphene ever did was say that they don't support certain Phones like FP because they are not updating their OS to their liking
Are you gonna go to Qubes OS next and complain that they are attacking laptop manufacturers (don't officially support Laptops because they don't have an open source UEFI)?
They also had a culture of accusing anyone who complained about issues or asked questions about why things were done a certain way of being a shill for Calyx, and of there being a coordinated effort by Calyx and others to discredit them. I'm a GOS user, but the lead developer is without a doubt pretty paranoid at least.
Regardless, these accusations against FUTO are pretty concerning.
I've been forced into graphene due to calyx' abandonment (and piss poor communication -- "oh we didn't realize people don't regularly check our website in case the entire organization collapses overnight") of it's users this year, sadly. There just isn't an alternative afaik.
On the graphene front I've personally been banned from their matrix chat on several accounts, none of which I actually used to post in their chat -- they did a blanket ban of anyone in the calyxos channel. Not posted there, not posted in graphene, not having actually done anything, they blanket banned (he now denies this ever happened). Which honestly given how many times I went on to see him uncontrollably ranting at people was probably for the best. He and his most ardent supporters are a brigade of trolls.
Wow you're very uninformed. May want to read up first.
Aw man I knew there was something wrong here. I gave them money for the keyboard and the voice talk and immich bcz I was a Rossman fan. They played him and me. Fuck these fascists.
Ugh, now I feel gross. Time to find a new YouTube app.
FUTO is more or less openly fascists
How so? I'm not doubting, I just didn't see any of that evidence in the article.
Have you read the same article?
The founder hosted a debate with an open fascist then gave him a platform on the FUTO YouTube channel.
Do words mean anything anymore? That is an argument for them being fascists. But how are they "openly" fascist? Where is their statement, where they openly state "we are fascists"?
Because they might be, but I don't think they ever openly said so.
I think that's a pretty extreme bar, but I agree 2 YouTube discussions doesn't make a fascist. At worst it makes a Gavin newsom or Joe Rogan.
Yeah, because thieves go around making public statements of "we are thieves!"
In 2025 they do
Exactly my point, and yet the commenter claims FUTO do that, even though they obviously aren't, because who would.
But if your roommate says he isn't a thief, however he always hangs around with the local gang and continuously brings used stuff that he has no way of legally acquiring since he doesn't even have a job. I don't know man, you have to start asking questions.
Mike is not a nazi, he just goes to the nazi bar because he likes the beer.
says he isn't a thief
Well that's the entire issue, isn't it? If he says he isn't a thief, then he's a thief who clearly isn't open about it. Just like Mike isn't openly a nazi, he's just a nazi who's lying about not being one.
Mike is "more or less" openly a Nazi if he frequents the nazi bar. Don't need them to outright say heil Hitler to see what crowd they promote and attract.
By that logic the word "openly" is meaningless.
I mean, if they're entering the front door, not a hidden entry somewhere at the back, it's pretty open. Like an open secret
I had no idea. Now I have to find a new keyboard...
Heliboard
I read that as "Hellboard" which sounds like an awesome mashup between Tony Hawk Pro Skater, and Brutal Legend
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