M. Ní Sídach<p>I'm seeing an uptick in video essays under the guise of "just asking questions" attempting to claim there is a conspiracy to destroy <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a>, <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/OpenHardware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenHardware</span></a>, <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a> projects and culture by Far-Left Extremists, <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Wokeism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wokeism</span></a>, and the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DEI</span></a> agenda.</p><p>None of this is new. They only exploit a new sense of entitlement to more openly speak and act as they long have, emboldened by the spread of anti-democratic, authoritarian, irrational, emotion-driven, ethnocentric rhetoric and assaults on liberty by <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> and the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/TrumpRegime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpRegime</span></a> <br><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Culture</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Identity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Identity</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Poltics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poltics</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SolidarityEconomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SolidarityEconomics</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Coop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coop</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/BIPOC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BIPOC</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/BlackMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMastodon</span></a></p>