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First, not every communist is a tankie, second, yes, Linus is not talking about being a literal communist, but about the "everyone to the left of Trump is a communist" meaning of the word.
Third, what I was saying is that this post about the political views of the creator of a huge FOSS project is very well timed after yesterday's discussion about Lemmy's creator.
Could you maybe link that debate for me? I can't find it.