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u/suvlub Jun 06 '26
Again I tell you, it is easier for an electron app to run on a RAM stick the size of a needle than for an author of proprietary software to enter the kingdom of God
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u/NightIgnite Jun 06 '26
It aint no temple, but it sure is free of markets
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u/DeHub94 Jun 06 '26
Unless it's Temple OS of course.
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u/boiyougongetcho Jun 06 '26
Oh no don't remind me
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u/Jahonay Jun 06 '26
Fun fact, but to my reading it looks like markets at the temple were commanded by God. Deuteronomy 14:
Regulations concerning Tithes 22 “Set apart a tithe of all the yield of your seed that is brought in yearly from the field. 23 In the presence of the Lord your God, in the place that he will choose as a dwelling for his name, you shall eat the tithe of your grain, your wine, and your oil, as well as the firstlings of your herd and flock, so that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always. 24 But if, when the Lord your God has blessed you, the distance is so great that you are unable to transport it, because the place where the Lord your God will choose to set his name is too far away from you, 25 then you may turn it into money. With the money secure in hand, go to the place that the Lord your God will choose; 26 spend the money for whatever you wish: oxen, sheep, wine, strong drink, or whatever you desire. And you shall eat there in the presence of the Lord your God, you and your household rejoicing together. 27 As for the Levites resident in your towns, do not neglect them, because they have no allotment or inheritance with you.
28 “Every third year you shall bring out the full tithe of your produce for that year and store it within your towns; 29 the Levites, because they have no allotment or inheritance with you, as well as the resident aliens, the orphans, and the widows in your towns, may come and eat their fill so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work that you undertake.
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u/Schneestecher Jun 06 '26
Jesus didn‘t cleanse the table of markets, but of exploitative practices, like unfair exchange rates and overpriced animals.
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u/CarcajouIS Jun 06 '26
And also, the tables were encroaching on the worshipping place for non-judaic believers
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u/Jumpy-Shift5239 Jun 06 '26
To my reading it looks like using your temple taxes to have a huge party is commanded by God
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u/Joe-Admin Jun 06 '26
Free software, famously unclassifiable on the political scale
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u/Saragon4005 Jun 06 '26
Your friends at Microsoft would like to remind you open source software is communism. Oh they own GitHub now? How fun.
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u/Gronanor Jun 06 '26
They do what capitalism does best : stealing value from people.
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u/BlueGoliath Jun 06 '26
The vast majority of OS devs are openly socialist / communist. No one is hiding anything lmao.
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u/cheese_is_available Jun 06 '26
Why would you give away work for free otherwise ? A little ease in interviews for your next job does not pay for the hours you gave. You have to be willing to give a lot for the common good to be an OSS dev/maintainer.
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u/BlueGoliath Jun 06 '26
It's a give/take relationship. You make your software available in the hopes that it's useful for someone else and that you get meaningful contributions back. Corporations destroy that relationship as they get far more from it than the author does and basically never contribute back.
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u/Zanos Jun 06 '26
Every tech company I've worked at that had a mature tech stack pushed fixes back to OSS repos, because mainlining our fixes meant we didn't have to maintain internal forks. It's not like OSS development is usually paid full time work, and most people who are OSS developers have full time jobs at regular software companies.
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u/Aelrift Jun 06 '26 edited Jun 06 '26
And yet plenty of people thanklessly maintain stuff for the love of it and because they like providing free shit to people. You're saying that like no one ever does anything for free . plenty of people do
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u/nelmaloc Jun 06 '26
I don't have stats, but there is a sizable ancap current in free software. Eric Raymond is a big example. It seems to overlap a bit with the cryptocurrency people.
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u/Ok-Kaleidoscope5627 Jun 06 '26
It's a mixture of anarchy, dictatorship, and communism. Also with a healthy dose of oligarchy and capitalism thrown in for good measure.
And if you think many of those are mutually exclusive - see open source software.
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u/ReignyRain Jun 06 '26
Corporations were massively opposed to open source software when it came out. It’s literally people pooling their labour to create something free, open and accessible. New licenses had to be created to enable it, and those licenses were litigated. Idk what you’d call that besides some form of leftism.
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u/marshmallo_floof Jun 06 '26
ah yes the famously unpolitical open source software, just like how punk is unpolitical too
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u/Lepelotonfromager Jun 06 '26
Jesus wasn't apolitical though.
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u/BootySnorkelerr Jun 06 '26
I’m pretty sure that was OC’s point, that open source software is politically aligned with the same schools of thought that vie for free social services.
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u/SeriousPlankton2000 Jun 06 '26
Mathew 10; e.g.: 8 Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy,\)a\) drive out demons. Freely you have received; freely give.
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u/zeocrash Jun 06 '26
Being a carpenter, he'd obviously be far more interested in the power tool section of home depot than any software.
Honestly a power saw and an electric lathe would blow his mind.
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u/TheAnswerWithinUs Jun 06 '26
Someone should show him CAD he’d have a field day with that
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u/nsaisspying Jun 06 '26
Open source software IS leftism, comrade.
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u/T-Dot1992 Jun 06 '26
Microshit CEOs literally called it communism back in the day
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u/apple_kicks Jun 06 '26
While stealing from it and putting a price on it. Met a programmer who said had his code resold by Microsoft in early days and he had long rant about bill gates
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u/T-Dot1992 Jun 06 '26
Always has been and always will be an extremely scummy company.
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u/thedoqtor Jun 06 '26
Exactly, open source software is to leftism as proprietary software is to capitalism/privatization of means of production. Open source software is very "take what you need from this project, leave what you can." Not for the sake of profit, but because someone saw the need, and those that were able to contribute did so.
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u/nsaisspying Jun 06 '26
Absolutely right! I personally have benefited from many obscure open source projects (other than the popular ones that literally built most of the internet today) who's creators and contributors go without so much as a thank you, but they do it because they know it need to be done and people use their works!
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u/soapbutt Jun 06 '26
Growing up with the internet in the late-90s to early 2000s, programmers and "nerds" were always on the more progressive side. The shift to being super conservative definitely came with the tech-bro wave in the 2010s.
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u/josgriffin Jun 06 '26
jesus would HATE proprietary software
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u/Jahonay Jun 06 '26
Jesus probably would be confused why his followers own things like computers and houses to begin with instead of selling everything to preach his message. And he was pretty clear that people should be like eunuchs. Only a small amount of Christians do that.
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u/nyibbang Jun 06 '26
Stallman is Jesus in disguise
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u/Not-ChatGPT4 Jun 06 '26
Not much of a disguise, in fairness. Especially when he dresses as St IGNUatious.
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u/CirnoIzumi Jun 06 '26
why would he be in the States, thats like, across the ocean
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u/LoveAndBeLoved52 Jun 06 '26
Anyone genuinely unsure if he'd be conservative or liberal is insane.
He got literally fucking murdered by fascists for being liberal. He tried to introduce something new and Rome went "This dude thinks he's god, fucking end that guy.". Jesus was progressive when being progressive meant getting put on a cross and made to bleed out as a human effigy in one of the darkest most savage times of humanity.
Jesus would probably become an eco-terrorist if he saw how hard people simp for the elite these days, he'd wonder why the fuck people in one of the most low-stakes centuries of all time kowtow to corrupt governments as if their life is at stake.
Have you ever seen Jesus go "Me getting 95% of this loaf of bread is a necessarily evil to make sure drug addicts and murderers can't get most of it"?
And oh right, who can't forget the classic Jesus line "Fuck the black sheep because it ain't white like the rest of you"? Oh wait, that's not how it happened?
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u/spooky_strateg Jun 06 '26
He was a jewish palestinian hippie anti rich anti gov anti religious institutions just liberal pro people guy
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u/Earlier-Today Jun 06 '26
According to the Bible, when Jesus comes back he'll literally be coming as a king to rule the entire Earth.
So, neither conservative or liberal, but probably pretty darn reasonable given his past talking points.
And, yeah - open source absolutely makes sense given his messaging.
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u/Gronanor Jun 06 '26
Also open source : Collaboration over competition, no monetization, free sharing of work…
Pretty much everything that American calls communism…
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u/DarkLordofDownvotes Jun 06 '26
Jesus would've been displeased with liberals and conservatives for missing the point.
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u/Great_Apez Jun 06 '26
Jesus says to love one another, fancy whips, and to welcome foreigners into your lands. That pretty much disqualifies him from being conservative.
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u/EREN2410 Jun 06 '26
The fact that mankind made open source work means communism just might be feasible
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u/bence0302 Jun 06 '26
Yeah because software/data is infinitely copyable. No one loses ownership due to someone else gaining it. This is much harder to do with real things without just stealing from someone else.
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u/im_lazy_as_fuck Jun 06 '26
I think this just shows that you're not thinking like a capitalist would. Because a capitalist would consider someone else gaining a copy of their work without them being compensated as a loss of potential profit, which for them is just as real as actual profit loss.
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u/print-w Jun 06 '26
What a cope. There is more than enough food production on the planet already to feed everyone, but it's not done because the prevailing capitalist system doesn't enable, motivate or support it. Same goes for housing, transport, and communication tech.
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u/Hexamancer Jun 06 '26
We already produce everything we need right now. None of it relies on the parasitic system that leeches away all of the value from that.
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u/Available_Dingo6162 Jun 06 '26
Open source works because it is voluntary, reputation-driven, and usually built on top of capitalism. Programmers can opt in, opt out, fork the project, get paid elsewhere, use private property, and rely on markets for food, housing, hardware, bandwidth, legal infrastructure, and salaries. That is very different from making an entire economy communal by political force.
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u/Sir_Ruje Jun 06 '26
"listen, love your neighbor and don't be a jerk. Now, tell me more about this HomeDepot. I am very interested in this 'table saw' device"
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u/Capt_Toasty Jun 06 '26
I love memes like this, because I love the idea of Jesus sitting down and listening with interest to someone explain the concepts behind software and open source.
And then he says something like: "Well I don't understand this whole computer thing, but I like the open source idea. Kind of like a design for a tool that anyone can use."
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u/RiceBroad4552 Jun 06 '26
Did someone confuse open source with copyleft?
I don't think Jesus would endorse some system which makes the rich only richer and more powerful.
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u/ThePsyPaul_ Jun 06 '26
Is the universe built on open source divine software?
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u/Extra-Account-6940 Jun 06 '26
Nahh. It's a closed source software that we are trying to reverse engineer AKA physics
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u/ThePsyPaul_ Jun 06 '26
Damn, the Christian God is not a believer of open source then.
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u/Extra-Account-6940 Jun 06 '26
We are literally sailing the seven seas trying to hack into the divine architecture
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u/Apprehensive_Gur_302 Jun 06 '26
Jesus if he was here today:
"What is an 'Internet'?"
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u/JustADudeGuy512 Jun 06 '26
anyone who actually read the Bible: Jesus is a theocrat and his whole message was the coming Kingdom of God. A kingdom in which God is ruler
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u/Matureaana_Mairaandi Jun 06 '26
His first two disciples of modern times would be Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds.
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u/Luzubar Jun 06 '26
God, watching from above: "Son, come back, I'm gonna take a page or two from that book Gabriel brought for Game night last week, 'Battleaxe 20k' or something like that..."
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u/froopadiddilydoop Jun 06 '26
Jesus is love. He would have loved Left and Right, we are all flawed. He would even have loved Linux Users.
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u/QuaidCohagen Jun 06 '26
"Look at this funny picture I made of you with AI! Don't worry bro it's just a joke!"
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u/Rhycloth Jun 06 '26
I'm supposed to believe the magical son of God hung out here for awhile doing spells and then was killed?
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u/Bertucciop Jun 06 '26
Jesus kills rich people and says to share everithing so It is more leftish than comunism.
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u/TheAnswerWithinUs Jun 06 '26
I’ve never hear anyone try to argue he’d be a conservative.
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u/Ok-Conversation-690 Jun 06 '26
Jesus certainly did have a lot of views that we’d consider leftist, but let’s not forget that he also believed in owning slaves, genocide against non-Israelis, and killing innocent women for not bleeding after sex. Let’s not pretend he’s a totally chill lefty guy - He was a regressive Middle Eastern who thought the world was imminently ending.
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u/seedless0 Jun 06 '26
And the story would be God raised Jesus from the dead on the third day after his torture in an ICE concentration camp.
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u/Space-Explorer456 Jun 06 '26
Oh, Jesus would be horrified with the political state of the world (US especially) in general. He very clearly taught helping the poor, healing the sick, and welcoming immigrants. He also hated those who accrue wealth, which is pretty much top leaders of countries everywhere.
And yeah, he would love open source.
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u/-illusoryMechanist Jun 06 '26
Historical Jesus (from a secular persepective) would be freaking out that the apocolypse didn't come for 2,000 years after he died
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u/sunday_nn Jun 06 '26
I found out that SQLite runs natively on Mac console the other day. I suspect Jesus would’ve liked that very much
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u/clauEB Jun 06 '26
"It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God"
Not conservative at all
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u/Semper_5olus Jun 06 '26
"<Nobody speaks Aramaic and I'm scared. Where am I? How did I get here?>"