Torvalds Uses Profanity To Lambaste Romney Remarks

netbuzz writes "Last night Linux creator Linus Torvalds took to his Google+ page and called Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney 'a f***ing moron.' Torvalds' stated reason? Romney's much-ridiculed suggestion that air passengers would be safer in emergencies if aircraft windows could be opened (a suggestion which some, including Snopes.com, have taken as a joke). Torvalds also recently called Mormonism, Romney's religion, 'bats**t crazy.' Is this just Linus being Linus? Or does such outspokenness on non-technical matters reflect poorly on the Linux community that Torvalds leads?"

Comments

Re:Oh my goodness gracious!

[rubycodez]

well, we know what Romney is wearing, his Mormon Holy Underwear with masonic symbols on it that protects him from evil

what a whackjob cult

Re:Mormons

[ceoyoyo]

It sounds like you're the one who doesn't know much about Mormonism, particularly the history of it.

Joseph Smith, the founder of the religion, dictated the book of Mormon to his wife, apparently dictated to him (or translated) by a magic rock. The religion did indeed include such gems as polygamous marriage.

Mormon fundamentalists (those fringe cultists that bonk 12 year old girls) disagree with modern mainstream Mormons, mostly belonging to the Church of Latter Day Saints, about several things that the LDS church dropped for political expediency including:

polygamy (abandoned in the early 20th century, IIRC as a condition of Utah's statehood, and there may have been an army and some artillery involved to hasten the decision)

Adam and Eve as aliens (Adam later became God, abandoned in the mid 20th century)

human sacrifice as punishment for serious crimes (blood atonement, supposedly no longer in force by 1978, but still occasionally coming up in Utah death penalty trials)

and banning black men from the priesthood (1978).

Make no mistake though, the 12 year old bonking fundamentalists are the real Mormons, the ones who have kept the original beliefs of Mormonism. The ones you like so much are the watered down variety who exchanged their unpopular beliefs for more mainstream acceptance (not that trading crazy beliefs for not getting shot at is a bad thing).

Now, worshipping the words of a magic rock and Adam and Eve as alien colonists doesn't seem that much more batshit insane to me than worshipping a magic man in the sky who once decided he'd like to knock up some poor human sap's girlfriend. I know some Mormons, and most of them are nice enough, just like most of the Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and atheists I know. I even knew some Jehovah's Witnesses who I liked well enough once, even if they were a little too quick to criticize other people's Christmas trees and one of them absconded owing me for three months rent and a hefty phone bill.

Re:Fortunately, Romney isn't a Democrat

[flyneye]

Nonsense, I'd give Linus a chance to say that Obama is the stupidest socialist motherfucker in the damn world.He believes we are safer with oppression and less freedom, thinks anyone with their own business didn't do it themselves and worse, thinks everyone is stupid as him. Typical Repubmocrat.
Democrats are just the other side of the same coin. There is only one party, disguised as two, flouting differences minor to the real problems of their misguided greedy governance. They've done nothing but drive the public into the dirt for their own greedy ends for more than a century now, but not everyone buys their " look a bird!" methods of deception.
Linus was right, Romney is a moron along with the rest of the Repubmocrats.
I'll give him a +1 insightful for half an insight.