I could put in the effort but I won’t because I’m lazy and it’ll be a fruitless exercise because it won’t matter. Whatever I provide won’t be from a “real” tankie and won’t represent the sentiments of tankies. There is a fundamental disagreement between the definition of the word. No amount of bickering is going to change that.

Or perhaps you do

Meanwhile, in so-called authoritarian regimes, the ruling party serves the working class as seen in countries like China,

The fundamental disagreement lies here. The Chinese government does not serve the working class. Modern China is not a communist state and suffers the exact same problems the US suffers from.

The “tankies” that do so are made of straw in the minds of liberals.

I must be god because my mind can manifest comments on the Internet.

Big brain time

I did a le maymay on the Internet. I am le smarts.

You sure pwned me. I’ll concede to your infinite intellect. I know when I’m bested.

Words don’t have meanings!

China, Russia and the US are all authoritarian states and none of them are your friends. Why is it controversial for me to say people should not worship or prop up states that only wish to subjugate their citizens to hoard power to a select few of elites?

Conflating this belief with Nazism or Holocaust trivialization is ridiculous, dishonest and juvenile.

Any flavor of authoritarianism is bad. Full stop.

Not my fault people are conflating them

I’m not into that authoritarian stuff. Worshipping a fascist authoritarian state is not a leftist make.

Tankies aren’t pro-communist.

How far did you make it? Season 1 is a bit painful, Season 2 is better but Season 3 is a big shift.

Seth McFarland’s humor is not very good…

ISPs used to provide usenet access for free back in the day.

It’s a distributed federated system in which content is exchanged between different news servers. Clients connect to particular news server which has to be hosted somewhere (and have a lot of storage space) which isn’t free to operate.

Torrents forgo all that and have clients directly connect to one another.

Usenet really wasn’t designed for file sharing. It’s a message board system, but you can easily encode binary data as ASCII text and wham bam now you’re sharing media.

LLMs mishmash from several sources. There isn’t a singular coherent “they”.

Kanye is pro nazi scum

Fat cats

Honestly don’t do anything you wouldn’t want a fascism regime knowing about on any PC running Windows or MacOS or any smart phone.

On that note, what Linux distro are best for privacy?

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