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One that I read on Mastodon:
Every bad thing about commercial software is the programmers' fault. Even if it was something that management decided and the programmer fought against it and lost. They claimed you should rather risk losing your job than accepting an inconvenience for your user. Weird take but okay. Then they started comparing software engineers to soldiers "just following orders" during the holocaust. That's where I blocked them. Cherry on top: they have "if you want to hire me as a software engineer, message me" in their bio. I wonder why nobody wants to hire them...
What kind of idiot can't see the difference between "I'm going to implement this stupid feature that no one wants because my boss says I have to" and "I'm going to murder Jews because my boss says I have to"?
I guess there's a parallel if you deliberately signed up for a job enshittifying things, although the difference of degree is obviously large. And OP was being really weird and aggro about it.
(Camp guard was a cush assignment relative to the front, you had to work for it)
Even Nathan Poe would be amazed at the speed that that devolved into nazi comparisons
I think you mean Mike Godwin. Poe's Law is about satire being hard to distinguish actual extremist views.
Edit: I really wanted to add a joke about Ward Cunningham but couldn't find a good way to phrase it.
Ward Cunningham, creator of Calvin & Hobbes?
Bruh.
Everyone knows that was Jim Davis
No, that's the creator of Heathcliff
Ops, good catch, I mixed them up.
Hmm.
"And there you go. As always, posting the wrong information gets you the real stuff (which, to be clear, is Ward Cunningham's law)"
Sounds like something management would say
I mean I get where they're coming from but that's just pushing it so far.
Blaming devs for management choices, clearly a bad take. Mocking people for standing for their values, and not being perfect soldiers at work : very shitty. We did not choose capitalism as a society. We have the right to protest against it, whenever its effects encumbers us.