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  • How do people actually fall into the "Tankie" mindset?

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  • I wasn't talking to you

  • How do people actually fall into the "Tankie" mindset?

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  • Unfortunately not, I have had conversations with them. And I know your next line is going to be "But they're just trolling, no one really thinks that, and I call horseshit. That "trolling", when do religiously adhered to, inspires weak-willed onlookers into sincere belief.

  • Pizza styles

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  • What about Keynesian-style pizza?

  • How do people actually fall into the "Tankie" mindset?

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  • That's exactly the complaint against tankies. Tankies are specifically authoritarian "communists", who defend the violent enforcement of "communism" by authoritarian states. Tankies explicitly want to control others who do not share their beliefs, that's the material distinction between a tankie specifically and a Communist in general.

  • How do people actually fall into the "Tankie" mindset?

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  • What do you think a tankie is?

  • How do people actually fall into the "Tankie" mindset?

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  • Uh, I don't think you understood their point. Tankies aren't communists, they're authoritarians with a red paint job. We're not talking about nuanced Marxist thinkers, we're taking about people who think "Just line everyone who doesn't accept my exact interpretation of communism up against the wall" is rational praxis.

    There are plenty of ways to rationally arrive at Communism, but really the only way to get to Tankie is, as the top comment says, rejecting Western propaganda in favor of the propaganda of so-called "communists".

  • I love the French

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  • Ahh the French

  • Checks out

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  • The low 000s are all generally pretty meta subjects, how we interact with and organize knowledge in general. Journalism and library science deal with reporting and classifying information, computers and programming deal with processing generic data, unexplained phenomena deals with things that can't be assigned to a specific subject by their very nature.

    Witchcraft, Feng Shui, and Tarot are all generally found in 133 (Parapsychology and Occultism), although I could imagine particularly high-level books to be sorted into 003 (Systems), since they are supposed to be comprehensive systems.

    Books about computer hardware would be next to electronics. Computer science is where it is because it's a more abstract topic about general information processing. If anything, I'd argue that fundamental mathematics belongs in the 000s with it.

  • you are

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  • Actually, I don't really like the progress flag and think it contributes to division. The original rainbow flag is perfect: sexuality and gender expression are a broad spectrum, the stripes don't represent individual groups, the whole rainbow represents all groups.

    The progress flag adds symbols for specific groups which were already included in the rainbow. Once you start singling groups out piecemeal, you enter an endless spiral of having to individually acknowledge every group, and there's always another subdivision being left out.

    I also like the reclamation of the word "queer" and think it's a far more unifying label than LGBTQIA+, for the same reason.

    It's fine to have focused actions, but unified movements are better.

  • Belief

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  • Someone else suggested that the rise in belief in human goodness is a function of the rise in belief of human incompetence. When you start recognizing that people frequently do stupid bad things not because they are bad, but because they are stupid, your heart softens a bit with regards to their intent.

    Anti-abortion is a great example. The majority of anti-abortion people genuinely believe that a zygote is an innocent human life, and terminating it is literally murder. If that's what they believe, why wouldn't they do everything in their power to stop it? People are murdering innocent babies!

    The more you get to know people, the more you start believing in Hanlon's razor. Most of the "bad" people aren't bad, they're just good people with stupid beliefs.

  • Off the Rails

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  • At least you save money on shoes

  • Genius

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  • It's surprising how many words are just this, or this but in another language

  • the ability of sight

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  • Uh, duh, that's a pipe

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  • I'd split the difference and say it's mostly a psychopathic obsession with money. I think the number of people who are cruel for cruelty's sake is absolutely dwarfed by the number of people who are fine with cruelty because it makes them richer.

  • Isn't that how you break up?

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  • Maybe there's a god above

    But all I ever learned in love

    Was how to shoot at someone

    Who outdrew ya

  • TIL: The word Vatnik is used in Russia and other post-Soviet states for steadfast jingoistic followers of propaganda from the Russian government.

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  • Same basic concept, but not the origin of the term. It's a common misconception.

  • Go vegan

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  • I think some concessions could be made for small batch local milk and eggs.

  • TIL: The word Vatnik is used in Russia and other post-Soviet states for steadfast jingoistic followers of propaganda from the Russian government.

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  • "Tankie" originates with Soviets using tanks to stop rebellion in Hungary, and refers to those who condone using authoritarian violence to suppress dissidents. They frequently overlap, but they're distinct concepts.

  • it's just human nature

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  • The same thing I've said from the beginning?

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    We need a tag like /s but for non-rhetorical questions

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
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    Decent 3d scanners under $1000

  • Ask Lemmy @sh.itjust.works
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    Have you ever actually had an "and then everyone clapped" moment?

  • Unpopular Opinion @lemmy.world
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    I actually kinda like when curse words are censored

  • Home Improvement @lemmy.world
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    Making the most of a totally dead cabinet corner?

  • Buy it for Life @slrpnk.net
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    Request

    Induction range in the $1,500 ballpark without a bunch of nonsense

  • Out of Context Comics @lemmy.world
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    Not sure if this breaks rule #3

  • DIY @slrpnk.net
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    Breezeway Greenhouse Help?

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    This moon decoration my wife got