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mim,

Hexbear? I wasn’t expecting that.

Apologies to hexbear users that I may have called Chinese bots. You were just useful idiots after all.

mim,

Polyamory is already mainly an upper class thing.

You are hard-pressed to find poly groups in rural areas and blue collar workers. It’s usually first-world college educated urbanites.

mim,

Sounds like a full time job. Must be exhausting.

Ain’t nobody got time for that.

mim,

He looks like Patrick from SpongeBob.

mim,

Wallabag.

I self-host my own instace, save articles I want to read from my laptop, and then they sync with the app on my phone. I read them offline when I have some time to kill

mim,

If you don’t mind selfhosting, miniflux is pretty nice.

Really lightweight, downloads the full text if possible (instead of just the first paragraph), etc.

mim,

Tankies.

You can’t have a discussion about anything without some tankie blaming it on Ukrainians / the west / capitalism, etc.

“Oh you stubbed your toe on the table? See, tables are oppressive furniture of the bourgeoisie. The Chinese government wanted to make all tables toe-stubbing resistent, but that would affect IKEA’s bottom line and the pharmaceutical industry’s profits. I have a source from tankiepeoplesmagazine to back this up.”

mim,

Have a look at comments in any news article regarding Ukraine. They will simp for Russia just because they are not US allies.

A tankie is commonly used to refer to someone who blindly defends the actions of the USSR, China, North Korea, etc. Going as far as denying human rights abuses and genocide.

It’s not the same thing as woke.

mim,

The term goes back to the 50s and 60s, hardly a buzzword.

Sorry to tell you, but you’ve been living under a rock.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

mim,

It’s a very common word in leftist circles. So if Lemmy is your first contact with leftists (beyond center left), then that explains it.

Being annoying is your opinion, but it’s not a buzzword that someone from gen z invented recently.

mim,

I’m in the US and “lefty” might mean something different for me than it does for you. Where I live and the sites I go on - have leftys on there but no, they never use the term tankie.

As I mentioned, it’s used in discussing circles with leftists beyond center left (i.e. someone who’s more left than Bernie Sanders): Anarchists, Marxists, Maoists, etc. Lemmy might be the only site you go to that has a sizable proportion of these.

On Reddit, if you go to places like r/anarchism, r/socialism, r/stupidpol, you get to see it being used.

Annoying is an opinion yes, but I’m saying its annoying because of how often it is brought up.

It’s brought up a lot here because there are a lot of them on lemmy. You’d never hear people around your neighborhood complaining about something that doesn’t happen in your neighborhood.

Maybe you are not seeing as many because your instance might block them. But I see them all the time is news articles about Ukraine or North Korea.

I see that there’s a discussion thread that goes on about this, not gonna get involved on that.

mim, (edited )

You’re also an American tankie who seems to have a knewjerk reaction of blaming everything on a group of Ukrainian white nationalists.

Italians are perfectly capable of having their own home-grown right wing clowns. They invented fascism after all.

mim,

Americans keep culturally appropriating Italy, first pizza and now fascism. smh

mim, (edited )

Ah yes, right wing nationalism is a problem exclusively in Ukraine. Russia invading a neighbour has nothing to do with Russification.

www.foreignaffairs.com/russian-federation/return-russian-ethnonationalism

mim,

I didn’t join the fediverse to have my data harvested.

mim,

Now we know you’re lying about that.

Or do we? You might be poly.

mim,

Not at the moment.

But as an account ages, you might leak more and more info about yourself, (e.g. IP addresses, interests based on what you post about, etc). If you then add on a personal detail like age, someone with bad intentions might be able to narrow down who you might be.

mim,

Just check out any news article outside Lemmy.world on the Ukrainian war or China.

It always gets flooded by accounts from lemmygrad and hexbear doing mental gymnastics and whataboutism to justify whatever Russia or China are doing.

mim,

I guess tankies are now making accounts in other instances so that they don’t get blocked.

mim,

Normally I’d agree with you, but I’ve read enough posts from Lemmy tankies that I cannot be sure anymore.

mim,

I’ve had a tankie acuse me of being libelous against North Korea by mentioning their human rights abuses.

When I presented links to the UN’s reports on the subject, they just got stuck in a loop asking for sources for my claims.

mim,

I’ve always leaned left, and not in the “American Democrat” way. I’ve read Marx, Engels, Kropotkin, Luxemburg, etc. Not that I agree with them on everything, but they make good points.

But every day I see tankies defend Russia just because it’s not the US, I feel like I’m moving more center just out of spite.

mim,

Russia is not even pretending to be communist anymore. It’s a full blown corrupt capitalist oligarchy. But just because it’s not an US ally, they will defend it.

mim,

You’re replying to a tankie.

Just the usual knewjerk reaction to defend China.

mim,

At least boomers know how to fix stuff around the house using tools. They are just useless at fixing computers.

mim,

Interesting how tankies keep saying that the west is forcing Ukraine to keep fighting. But when NATO suggests they give some land to Russia to stop the war, the Ukrainians get offended and want to keep fighting. 🤔

mim,

If NATO wants to stop the war, then why does it keep supplying Ukraine with weapons? Don’t you think that indicates they want the war to go on indefinitely (and help out U.S. military industrial complex)?

NATO wants to give assurances to their Eastern European members that they won’t bail on them when Russia starts eyeing their territory.

If they wanted to keep the war going, they wouldn’t have made the offer in the first place.

mim,

Yes, NATO doesn’t want a deal that could spark another war. And they also offered Ukraine a way to settle a dispute, lose territory, and stop a current war.

Explain to me then: How is the west forcing Ukraine to keep fighting? And don’t say “stop supplying weapons”, NATO has to assure their members that they would stand by them.

mim,

But Ukraine is not a member. There is no reassurance required, or given, by NATO supplying non-members. In fact one could easily make the opposite claim: NATO depleting its own ammunition stores is doing the opposite of reassuring its members, by decreasing its own margins of safety.

Assurance to the other Eastern European countries that are members (read my previous response). The other Eastern European countries want to supply weapons to Ukraine (they have gone above and beyond to send extra to Ukraine).

mim,

Public opinion in Eastern European NATO countries is very much pro-Ukraine. They want NATO to send more weapons.

In fact, they have gone above and beyond to send them more weapons (percent-wise), than other countries.

mim,

How does that contradict what I’ve said? They want NATO to send weapons, and they fear Russia (for obvious reasons). And NATO needs to reassure them that they will support them in defending themselves against a potential Russian invasion.

Are you trying to change the subject? Or did you genuinely did not understand what I said?

mim,

But when Russia suggests they give some land to Ukraine to stop the war, Donbas gets offended and want to keep fighting.

LOL When did that happen tankie? Russia is the one that propped up the separatist movement in the Donbas in the first place.

mim,

with a level of federalization to protect it from future lapses in Ukrainian democracy.

With a puppet government, you mean.

Just like the “free” elections that they lead in an occupied territory.

mim,

Read the article mate.

NATO literally proposed to Ukraine to give up territory to stop the war. Answer this, and don’t dodge the question: Why would NATO ever put forth that proposition if they wanted the war to keep going?

mim,

It’s about how a nato official blurted something out

He wanted them to consider it, otherwise he wouldn’t have said it. This is not some guy in the pub having a chat with his friends and he “blurted it out” over some beers. These are bureaucrats with highly controlled chains of command.

emediatly had to apologize

He did that after the Ukrainian backlash.

I’m not going to debate who’s wining, since you’re going to pull out some RT stats. What I’m arguing is the point tankies keep pushing that NATO is somehow pushing Ukrainians into a war against their will, and that NATO is not open to a negotiation to end the war.

You had literally a NATO official suggesting Ukraine to give up territory to stop the war. Ukrainians getting outraged, and him having to backpedal.

mim,

Don’t change the subject with whatabouttisms tankie.

I can play that game too: Russia held elections at gunpoint in occupied territory. Do you also believe that the elections the US held in Afghanistan and Iraq were free? Or does that only apply to countries that you don’t like?

mim,

Don’t worry, lemmygrad will be here in a second with a bunch of whataboutism about the US.

mim,

Don’t feed the tankie.

mim,

If you read the actual Hacker News thread, they were getting a 5sec delay with wget, but not curl.

Don’t remember the details, but it could have been a bug in twitter’s code (i.e. not malicious). But we’ll probably not know the truth because Elon does not reply to media enquiries, and tech journalists love a juicy story.

mim,

SearXNG.

It’s like having a search engine customised to my needs.

Automatically filters out SEO junk sites, and redirects links automatically (e.g. reddit.com -> old.reddit.com)

mim,

Change your settings.yml to have this


<span style="color:#323232;">enabled_plugins:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  - 'Hostname replace'  # see hostname_replace configuration below
</span>

And then define the rules like this:


<span style="color:#323232;">hostname_replace:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">#   My redirects
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  '(.*.)?reddit.com$': 'old.reddit.com'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">#   My filters
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  'slant.co': false
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  'dailymail.co.uk': false
</span>
mim,

You’re welcome. :)

mim,

It runs inside a docker container, so you could even have it locally (if you don’t want to host it on a VPS).

mim,

Tankie propaganda on lemmy?

I’m shocked. /s

mim,

So, what you’re saying is that the countries that sided with the West got a better deal than the ones that became Russian puppets?

mim,

You seem to be ignoring the fact that after the fall of the USSR, Russia didn’t want their assets to be sold or leased to western companies (understandably), so they let corrupt officials take them for pennies of what they were actually worth. Those officials became the oligarchs.

Russians cannibalised Russia.

mim,

Hi first-world revolutionary LARPer. 👋

mim,

And yet, tankies still defend this corrupt capitalist state just because it’s not the US.

Nevermind political persecution, assassinations, repression of LGBT people, invasion of neighbouring countries, etc. As long as it’s not the US, it’s all good.

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