davel [he/him] @ davel @hexbear.net

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Remember when middle class almost definitionally meant not struggling financially?

Okay fine, I’m old.

Too crakkker to convict, says Whyte.

Not every communist movement is in the country that is the imperial core hegemon.

I never heard of Rossana Cambron, who is the other co-chair, and I don’t know why she doesn’t have her own Wikipedia page like every other past & present party leader. She’s the first woman (coincidence?), and AFAIK this is the first time the position has been shared.

There’s a spectre haunting the Lemmyverse, the spectre of 0.19.4

👆 v0.19.4 was released yesterday, so more & more instances will have it. It’s a bit of a hack; IIUC there’s a longer term solution in the works.

It’s a somewhat hacky feature of v0.19.4, which lemmyml has been running pre-releases of for the last few weeks.

The Steam store makes it look like Aether also developed 2, the only difference being that they outsourced “publishing” to Offbrand. AFAICT Offbrand doesn’t do development.

I never heard of them, but I don’t pay much attention to this industry. They’ve published one game for Aether Studios?

Hard to say which will defed first, world or db–“no tankie shit”–zer0.

If those spicy autocompletes could read they’d be very upset.

I swear this gets posted on like a monthly basis by some brave patriot

c/McMansionCollapse

The Blobby Witch Project

For those who don’t remember Scott Ritter:

• Ryan Grim @ The Intercept, 2020: Joe Biden, Five Years Before Invasion, Said the Only Way of Disarming Iraq Is “Taking Saddam Down”
• YouTube clip: Joe Biden Talked Up War with Iraq Five Years Before the Invasion

  Biden told Ritter that no matter how thorough the inspections, the only way to eliminate the threat was to remove Saddam Hussein. […] “You and I believe, and many of us believe here, as long as Saddam is at the helm, there is no reasonable prospect you or any other inspector is ever going to be able to guarantee that we have rooted out, root and branch, the entirety of Saddam’s program relative to weapons of mass destruction. […]

  Hussein, it turned out, did not have an active WMD program.

  During questioning, Biden mocked Ritter as “ol’ Scotty boy” and suggested that his demands — that the international community compel Iraq to cooperate with inspectors — if met, would give Ritter the unilateral authority to start a war in Iraq. Biden argued that such decisions belonged to higher-level officials. “I respectfully suggest they have a responsibility slightly above your pay grade, to decide whether or not to take the nation to war,” Biden said. “That’s a real tough decision. That’s why they get paid the big bucks. That’s why they get the limos and you don’t. I mean this sincerely, I’m not trying to be flip.”

It doesn’t seem to work for me:

{thefuck|What} {happening|is}? https://github.com/commonmark/commonmark-spec/issues/432

Their bespoke definition is:

Basically someone that apologizes for war criminals.

Its existence stems from people defending the massacre at Tiannenmen square.

These days tankies appear in many forms. On Lemmy most commonly as people such as OP apologizing for Joe Biden being complicit in Genocide.

It’s been pointed out to them that “tankie” predates the Tiananmen riots by a generation, but they persist with their pet definition, which literally no one shares.

Mostly they seem to use it to mean anyone who has in any way supported any genocide, including any apologia or denial. And they believe in a genocidal Holomodor & Uyghurmodor as much as in the German Nazi ones & the ongoing one in Gaza.

If lemmyworld weren’t defederated from Hexbear, I would ask them to confirm.

Edit to add: they seem to flip-flop on whether or not Uyghurs have been / are being genocided

Linker–anyone to the left or right of me is a Tankie–baan
https://lemmy.world/search?creatorId=3867209&q=tankie