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Folks, let’s cut tech folks complying with fascist demands some slack.

We all know the French Resistance were fearless but even they drew the line at refusing to merge pull requests.

@aral it is historically accurate that in the french revolution, not a single merge request was refused. Not one. It was simply unheard of.

Aral Balkan

@claudius Right? We’re simply holding tech folks to too high a standard.

@aral yeah... if they learned *some* history, they could easily fact-check simple stuff like this themselves.

But I guess we just need to hand-hold everybody.

@claudius @aral well... We could also say that those guys were brave, not only did they the revolution, also they did not approve a single PR during that time. All their code was frozen and all the CI/CD pipelines were idle.

@Sh41 @aral They were even throwing their wooden shoes into all the available CI/CD pipelines. No pipeline was allowed to run until this great injustice was resolved.

@claudius @aral yes, precisely, no pipeline was spared, no repo was safe.

Now that I think about it, all the repos were deleted. Do you know of any repo from before the French Revolution? Exactly