JTurtle

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Winchester (the firearms manufacturer) dropping (killing) game (wildlife in the context of hunting)

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

rules-based order (i make the rules and order every one around)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

i had a long reply that i accidentally deleted but conveniently this book about Stalin just came out that should give you an infinitely more nuanced "history and critique" of Stalin than the average westerner could imagine exists.

TL;DR Stalin is a complicated figure, just like everyone else. The cartoon villain picture of Stalin that western propagandists have been building for almost a full century now isn't real, no one likes the "eastern hitler" caricature that doesn't exist. We like Josif Stalin, the real person who existed, did great things, did bad things. a lot of what you think you know is simply false, and to understand why we "like" Stalin, you have to learn who Stalin really was, and find out what you think you know about him, the Soviet Union, and communism as a whole, that is just plain wrong.

sorry about the downvotes and dunking that are going to come to you, some folks around here have trouble distinguishing genuine questions and bad faith trolls.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (6 children)

why is Russia blank? does no one in Russia edit wikipedia??

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

matapacos defederated from kolektiva for what security concerns? i too am a kolektiva user hiding my power level and looking to migrate, but i dont want to lose the comrades ive met on kolektiva :(

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

i can't find this video on f*x's channel, probably fake but i also didnt search very well bc it's still funny and i dont care.

but if someone does have a link share it here, it look hilarious

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

i really should have made the image more obviously leftist, by all means you could see this in a fash community and not seem out of place at all.

inb4 horseshoe theory

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (2 children)

it's unfortunate that righties learned the word "liberal", causing confusion like this. but it's funny that so many of them technically are liberals if you want to be pedantic with definitions

 
[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

i know of copyleft, but im not sure i like MIT(+other lenient licenses) or GPL. MIT makes my code free for the taking for any big corpos (not that im cool enough for that to happen, but hypothetically) and i'd like to inconvenience them at every opportunity. yet GPL would be a pain for normal smaller devs who just want to use or modify my stuff without license headaches.

but i'm probably overthinking it, aint nobody using my shitty ass code πŸ™ƒ

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

TIL about that loophole. im weary of using GPL because i dont want to inconvenience average joes who want to include and redistribute my work while using a different license for other bits. but if my mind is changed i would want to use Affero, thanks!

 

Copyright is a tool of suppression by the bourgeoisie etc etc but as long as we have to deal with this tomfoolery, what licenses do you use or recommend, and why? I'm also open to the idea of custom or silly licenses if you can justify that they won't cause more trouble than they're worth.

I've heard the tale of a Rust DS emulator whose github repo was deleted, but because either there was no license or the license was something dumb, no one was able (or brave enough) to revive it, so i feel like it's important to take this more seriously than i have been. For the few things i have made i just put "copyright is fake" or "this isnt my code, it is OUR code, comrade!" in LICENSE.txt.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

supposedly, the many banned terms were quickly unbanned, but further reading would require being able to read Chinese. which i can't.

for comrades braver than me, here's br*tmonkey's source list for the video: https://pastebin.com/qNQbXyUE

and the source for "letter N was banned" (from the guardian, notorious source of Unbiasedβ„’ reporting about china): https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/28/china-bans-the-letter-n-internet-xi-jinping-extends-power

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

save yourself the braincells and dont bother learning anything about "breadtubers". destiny is just another one of them, and you're better off knowing nothing more than that.

 

Serious post warning, sleep-deprived wall of text ahead.

Someone who I dare say I respect publicly discouraged joining or supporting Lemmy on the basis of being The Tankie Place, linking this raddle post, a collection of horrifyingly flimsy evidence that Dessalines (lemmy.ml admin, maintainer of the wonderful dessalines.github.io/essays/) is a freedom hating redfash tankie who likes it when the evil CCP genocides uyghurs and bans femboys.

Naturally it all sucks but now i'm investing too many brain cells into thinking: how do you even refute this garbage?

I'm not proud of it, but I was an "anti-authoritarian leftist" too. I unironically said "tankie" once. And if i were told there is no Uyghur genocide, i would react exactly as if they had told me there was no holocaust. To the westerner, China really is as bad as nazi germany and straightforwardly saying otherwise, in their mind, is no different than if you replace Uyghurs with jews and China with germany. When this narrative is so deeply ingrained, how do you fight it? How the hell did I get here?

i really have no idea how to address it when, to them as it once was to me, it is so obviously true that anyone suggesting otherwise is not even worth listening to. these are fundamental beliefs and challenging them is grounds for instant block and report. its not open for discussion. all i can do is hope they find the truth on their own.

i'll stop rambling now and sleep instead. so i wont respond for a while. sorry if theres a better community to post this in i just needed to get this out before i spontaneously combust. good night comrades.

 
 
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