Non-IT News Thread

scottalanmiller

You have to give some perspective. Fascism and nationalism are both popular today, broadly. Not just in the US, but all over the world. These are the major movements people are talking about today. The new term for them is "populism." We know it is bad, but people support it broadly. They see it as protecting jobs, as protecting the identities of their countries. Many see it as providing equality so that they can be treated like many poorer countries are. While generally bad, there are some valid ideas behind it.

Given that something like 50% of Americans and 50% of Europeans openly support populism today; and several countries have elected populist leaders actively - you are putting Ikea's founder into a club that includes... basically half of everyone that you know. He just happened to be a teenager at a time when things were very heated and being on either side of the fence risked you being labeled as evil by whoever won the war (the ideological war, rather than the physical one.)

I agree, he chose wrong. But his perspective at the time, was very different from ours. We don't know how much he knew of what he was choosing. He very possibly was simply worried about Russian aggression (Sweden is ramping up for war today for this same reason), and knew that no matter how neutral Sweden was, that it was seen as an Axis power by the Allies and was ripe for invasion. He may have just been very pro-Sweden nationalism. Not a great thing, but no reason to be seriously upset with him.

The evils of Nazism were a secret to the world until later. Supporting the Nazis, especially from outside of the country, in no way implies supporting what the Nazis were doing in secret.

scottalanmiller

@tim_g said in Non-IT News Thread:

He very well knew what Hitler was up to in the late 40's, as did the world.

That was the late 40s, do you have any evidence to suggest that he supported Hitler AFTER the war? None of that is in any articles that you provided.

nadnerB

Classic example of a Milkshake Duck

mlnews

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Obsolesce

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FSF-One-Million-Dollars-Bitcoin

Ohh, now maybe they can get Fedora working on my ASUS ROG

scottalanmiller

@tim_g said in Non-IT News Thread:

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FSF-One-Million-Dollars-Bitcoin

Ohh, now maybe they can get Fedora working on my ASUS ROG

They work on BSD.