this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2025
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Just replace "woke" with "russian".

[–] garbagebagel 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

All it really boils down to is "supports AES," though. The article even says as much.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I skimmed through the article and I have no clue what does being a tankie have to do with encryption algorithms

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Actually Existing Socialism. Cuba, Vietnam, China, Laos, the former USSR, etc.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wikipedia has a good article about the term

If you think Hitler is bad, wait until you hear what he has to say about the soviets!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

But seriously this is an argument that has been over since before anyone alive today was ever born

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/10/authority.htm

authoritarianism = bad is literal baby brain

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

Its become the boomer equivalent of calling everything bad communist.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Whoever taught liberals that word, I hope they have diarrhea forever.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

That would probably be some ultras, they are very desperate to be recognized by liberals as "true communists" unlike those "fake authoritarians". Liberals of course don't give a shit and immediately labeled ultras as tankies as well.

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