[hackerspaces] In defense of Noisebridge (even if I was never there!)

[Torrie Fischer]

On Thursday, July 03, 2014 12:12:26 Al Billings wrote:
> On Jul 3, 2014, at 11:36 AM, Mark Janssen <dreamingforward at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 7/3/14, Al Billings <albill at openbuddha.com> wrote:
> >> No offense, really, but fuck your politics. :-)
> >> 
> >> Yes, hacking is more than making things. That doesn’t mean that if a
> >> space
> >> doesn’t embrace some anarchist ideology as its primary motivating force,
> >> it
> >> isn’t a hackerspace. I’m here to hack. If I want to feed the homeless,
> >> I’ll
> >> volunteer at a soup kitchen.
> > 
> > Here's a clue, you can't ride an exponential growth curve on a finite
> > planet forever, but yet all the politicians think that GDP should go
> > up forever, no.  Growth, without purpose, is cancerous.  Without a
> > knowledge of the political issues, you're just another opportunist
> > wanting to "keep the party going" (at the expense of the whole).  The
> > hackerspace ethos is a major political and economic innovation, so
> > fuck your ignorance, "brah".
> 
> You should try responding to what I said instead of your little straw man.
> You think people don’t know what you’re saying so they’re ignorantly
> objecting to your making a lefty political test and organizational ethos
> the basis of hackerspaces? Really?

Hi, Al and Mark.

Could we keep the interpersonal conflict off the list please? Thanks. <3

> 
> Al Billings
> albill at openbuddha.com
> http://makehacklearn.org
> 
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