Hell In The Pacific, hands down.

Fucking bootlickers.

The Great Fire of Rome killed a lot of people and destroyed a lot of wealth, but was inconsequential to the Empire as a whole. This is more Emperor Honorius bribing the barbarians not to invade, then stiffing them and pissing off to feed his pet birds as Rome was looted for the first time in over 700 years.

Insane that even commenting about how some prefer the Soviet days gets you a ban, simply for being insufficiently positive.

Fascists painted red. Issues like Uyghur genocide and support or neutrality on the imperialist invasion of Ukraine by Russia, and subsequent ethnic cleansing, are often clear indicators of tankieism; but really the root is tribalism without any deeper cause, principles, or thought process. Many are American exceptionalists who insist everything revolves around US policy.

Those who claim that ‘tankie’ just means ‘socialists’ and everyone who uses it is a bourgeois puppet or useful idiot are often the same kinds of people who will say things like “The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, led by workers and demanding a democratic and socialist government of the people, was counterrevolutionary fascism and they deserved to be crushed by Soviet tanks”

“No true Scotsman” is about redefining a term to suit the argument, not that purity tests or gatekeeping are inherently illegitimate.

All words are made up but tankie just makes me think, go the fuck outside and touch grass

Would touching grass make us forget history?

I suppose intellectuals are dangerous counterrevolutionaries. As Lenin once said, after all, the educated classes are the ‘shit’ of the nation, not its brains. “No mercy for these enemies of the people, the enemies of socialism, the enemies of the working people! War to the death against the rich and their hangers-on, the bourgeois intellectuals!”

The Saudis are definitely comparable

Dog cannot en passant

It’s especially bizarre considering what lengths the Islamic Republic has went through to suppress leftists.

I’ve noticed this too, I’m pretty sure they keep an eye on people they’ve had previous run ins with. I blocked one and a few more of them presented themselves to receive their blocks, lol.

I think they have a comm dedicated to brigading. ‘The Dunk Tank’ or something like that.

I didn’t realize sabotaging Nazis and being a Nazi were the same thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmOw-jplSMk

Bread. I miss fresh bread.

That’s impossible. You would’ve died of dysentery long ago!

Back in The Day, you’d write on CDRs with sharpie so you knew what each one contained.

That or the ol’ tan cased dinosaurs.

The gray Dell helped me through many-a “100 Games!” disc…

Yes! Yes!

Something changed culturally between Usenet and the things that came after.

Me, who only started into online communities in the early 2000s:

“This is the worst labor market of my life…”

“The worst labor market of your life so far!”