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  • Reddit users who switched to Lemmy, what is the most annoying thing you have seen about Lemmy users?

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  • Have a look at comments in any news article regarding Ukraine. They will simp for Russia just because they are not US allies.

    A tankie is commonly used to refer to someone who blindly defends the actions of the USSR, China, North Korea, etc. Going as far as denying human rights abuses and genocide.

    It's not the same thing as woke.

  • Reddit users who switched to Lemmy, what is the most annoying thing you have seen about Lemmy users?

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  • Tankies.

    You can't have a discussion about anything without some tankie blaming it on Ukrainians / the west / capitalism, etc.

    "Oh you stubbed your toe on the table? See, tables are oppressive furniture of the bourgeoisie. The Chinese government wanted to make all tables toe-stubbing resistent, but that would affect IKEA's bottom line and the pharmaceutical industry's profits. I have a source from tankiepeoplesmagazine to back this up."

  • I've seen countless posts about the tankie problem here in the lemmyverse

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  • Just check out any news article outside Lemmy.world on the Ukrainian war or China.

    It always gets flooded by accounts from lemmygrad and hexbear doing mental gymnastics and whataboutism to justify whatever Russia or China are doing.

  • McConnell on Ukraine proxy war: "We haven’t lost a single American in this war. Most of the money that we spend, is spent on replenishing weapons, so it’s actually employing people here."[paraphrased]

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  • And yet, tankies still defend this corrupt capitalist state just because it's not the US.

    Nevermind political persecution, assassinations, repression of LGBT people, invasion of neighbouring countries, etc. As long as it's not the US, it's all good.

  • McConnell on Ukraine proxy war: "We haven’t lost a single American in this war. Most of the money that we spend, is spent on replenishing weapons, so it’s actually employing people here."[paraphrased]

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  • Hi first-world revolutionary LARPer. 👋

  • McConnell on Ukraine proxy war: "We haven’t lost a single American in this war. Most of the money that we spend, is spent on replenishing weapons, so it’s actually employing people here."[paraphrased]

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  • You seem to be ignoring the fact that after the fall of the USSR, Russia didn't want their assets to be sold or leased to western companies (understandably), so they let corrupt officials take them for pennies of what they were actually worth. Those officials became the oligarchs.

    Russians cannibalised Russia.

  • McConnell on Ukraine proxy war: "We haven’t lost a single American in this war. Most of the money that we spend, is spent on replenishing weapons, so it’s actually employing people here."[paraphrased]

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  • So, what you're saying is that the countries that sided with the West got a better deal than the ones that became Russian puppets?

  • McConnell on Ukraine proxy war: "We haven’t lost a single American in this war. Most of the money that we spend, is spent on replenishing weapons, so it’s actually employing people here."[paraphrased]

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  • Eastern European countries that opened to western trade and diplomatic relationships improved significantly.

    Eastern European countries that became Russian puppets didn't.

    Explain that.

  • McConnell on Ukraine proxy war: "We haven’t lost a single American in this war. Most of the money that we spend, is spent on replenishing weapons, so it’s actually employing people here."[paraphrased]

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  • Because the Black Sea Fleet is station in Sevastopol and Sevastopol is a vital strategic resource? Are we speaking the same language?

    So if the US has a fleet statinoned in another contry's territory, should they just be allowed to take it?

    Non-sequitor?

    What don't you follow?

    Do you also support US-backed countries to take territory as they see fit? Or does that only apply to countries you like?

    Okay so you know that UA was shelling Donbass and killing people for years, and the Rada was very openly hostile to the Russian speaking Ukrainian minority, right?

    A Russian-backed separatist group starts a conflict and Ukraine responds.

    Does Ukraine not have the right to defend their territory?

    Could I get a sticker instead?

    You can get some crayons to munch on.

  • McConnell on Ukraine proxy war: "We haven’t lost a single American in this war. Most of the money that we spend, is spent on replenishing weapons, so it’s actually employing people here."[paraphrased]

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  • I don't have the time for the classic tankie "reply with a wall of text and deflections", I actually have a real job to attend to. But some main points.

    Do you know that the Russian Black Sea Fleet is based in Sevastopol? Did you know that it’s an incredibly important strategic asset? What do nation states do when an incredibly important strategic asset is threatened? Do they defend it?

    Do you also know that Russia took Sevastopol from Ukraine back in 2014?

    Tell me, do you also support Israel's claims on Palestinian territory?

    Do you know what the Russian Federation’s stated causus belli for the invasion is?

    Yes.

    Do you know what the causis belli for the US's invasion of Iraq was? Are you stupid enough to believe that one as well? Or does believing causus belli only applies to whatever country is not an ally of the US?

    What do you know?

    I know you should get a gold medal on mental gymnastics and double standards.

  • McConnell on Ukraine proxy war: "We haven’t lost a single American in this war. Most of the money that we spend, is spent on replenishing weapons, so it’s actually employing people here."[paraphrased]

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  • So, why didn't Belarus improve at the same rate as the Baltic countries?

    They both started from the bottom, right?

  • McConnell on Ukraine proxy war: "We haven’t lost a single American in this war. Most of the money that we spend, is spent on replenishing weapons, so it’s actually employing people here."[paraphrased]

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  • Funny how living standards in the ex-soviet countries have improved considerably since joining the EU, but that has not been the case for the ones that chose to be kept under Russia's sphere of influence. 🤔

    Looks like the EU is really bad at looting, they should learn from Russia.

  • McConnell on Ukraine proxy war: "We haven’t lost a single American in this war. Most of the money that we spend, is spent on replenishing weapons, so it’s actually employing people here."[paraphrased]

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  • Russia invades a neighbour who dares to attempt to have stronger ties to the west.

    West supplies neighbour with weapons to defend itself.

    Tankies on Lemmy: "oh no, Russia is being oppressed"

  • What's some really unpopular opinion you have?

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  • The fact that you're getting downvoted means that you're on topic.

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
    mim @lemmy.sdf.org

    Which sites do you blacklist from your internet searches?

  • Why are people anti Facebook joining the fediverse?

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  • Sorry, but I think you're missing the main point.

    The risk is not to be tracked, the issue is embrace, extend, and extinguish (EEE): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

    They are currently competing with Twitter and Bluesky, they just need users to kickstart their new platform. That's where the fediverse comes in. All Meta has to do is to convince the instances to give them users.

    Meta has a lot of money to throw at UX, they will design a better one than Mastodon. Their instance will also be more reliable (since they have money for lots of computational resources). This will allow them to spread their influence on the fediverse (so that people follow others on Threads), growing up to be the largest instance, and then just defederate from everyone else to “stop spam”. People will then move to Threads so they keep following their friends there (because their friends signed up for meta, since it was all compatible anyway).

    And only then, they will start to harvest data and put ads in front of you.

  • What can the 'average Joe' start hosting, that will change their life?

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  • It makes sense in terms of reproducibility.

    Imagine if your server gets compromised, you accidentally break it, or you just want to move to a cheaper provider or a different server. Do you want to have to tweak it all over again, and fix bugs that you figured out how to fix 6 months ago and you don't remember?

    I'd rather have some yaml files that do it for me. And it's a new skill as well.

  • What can the 'average Joe' start hosting, that will change their life?

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  • Docker is definitely worth the time investment.

    If OP wants to go one level deeper: Ansible.