Good than you understand lending critical support to the people of Ukraine in their valiant struggle against Russian imperialism.

It’s laughable how some people say Ukraine should not be defended, but never say Russia should stop invading.

How about Russia doesn’t invade Ukraine and no one has to get fucking drafted.

Tankies love imperialism, it’s sickening how willing you are to throw innocent lives away.

That’s not ironic, because they’re not calling for the tanks to crush innocent people but to stop imperialist invaders.

So I had a look at the voting score and only 5 of those down votes came from .ml, most are from .world accounts.

Authoritarian-Communist.

Named after the mostly Marxist-Leninist leftists who supported the Soviets brutality in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, when they sent into tanks to kill the student democratic uprising.

Used by non-auth leftists for decades, past few years some centrists and rightists have started using it for anything left that they don’t like as calling everyone communists wasn’t working any more. These days it generally means anyone who supports China, Russia, blames Ukraine, etc.

I only remember Lemmy forcing its hard coded “slur filter” on all instances. It took a lot of backlash to get them to make it optional.

Yes that’s obvious when you said you were called a tankie.

Still doesn’t mean everyone hates communism/socialism.

Tankie does not equal any communist. People are fine with listening to socialists and communists, it’s MLs they draw the line at.

But they don’t give a shit about them, they cater to companies first and foremost.

Their core users are corporations, not personal households.

Windows & Xbox are like 16% of M$'s revenue, they’re not that important to the company.

EcOnOmIcS iS a ScIeNcE!

If we got UBI today, the majority of people would stop pushing for the better system and would be content with “better than they had”.

Effectively setting back liberation by centuries and perpetuating suffering, meanwhile it would always be a sword of damocles dangling above the peoples head with fear of it being withdrawn or diminished by future conservative governments at any minutes notice.

And frankly arguing for it is a terrible idea on principle, it’s like haggling and starting from the middle instead of the lowest.

UBI is not the solution, ending the capitalist system is.

All UBI does is lessen the suffering slightly, why not just directly meet people’s needs without the middleman.

A spokesman for OGC said, “It is not inappropriate to an organisation that’s looking to have a firm grip on Government spend.”

At least they’ve got a good sense of humour about it.

IIRC that’s old news and you can now self host and there are other instances up.

Ideally you need more than one armed person, or else you become a target. Sp organise with some friends before hand.

Presumably when China asked for your immigration status or sexual orientation, which they didn’t, it wasn’t to send you to the camps.

So yeah, for Americans it would be worse.

In before he’s on another right wing podcast apologising and saying it’s false.

Brits need to wake up to the fascism in their country, it’s much more quieter than the US but no better.