SpookyGenderCommunist [they/them, she/her]

He’s a cop, and that’s cringe.

Meanwhile, the other half of Resident Evil 2 features a pretty woman who shoots big guns and protects a little girl, and she’s not a cop. That’s way hotter than cop Leon with his boyband haircut.

The notion that human beings are separate and apart from the natural world is colonialist nonsense.

Yeah, I’d love to see a chart of some kind, for this

I bought a Logitech mouse that lasted me well over a decade. That little trooper only finally gave out a few years ago. That’s the only kind of forever mouse that I need.

IDK but they’re kinda cute :3

The obsession gamers have with “good graphics” is at a point where we’re seeing diminishing returns. Do games need to look any better than they did in the PS3/360 Era? Not really. Can they look much better? I guess? But who cares? I don’t need realistic horse testicle physics. I need a fun game to play!!!

It was described to me as “Dev Patel and his army of transgender women fight fascists” and that’s exactly what I got. 10/10

Explain like I’m a dipshit, what are 3 of their important contributions?

Can someone explain the joke to someone who has always been shit at math?

Don’t we shit on libs for doing stuff like this?

Alt history and speculative near future stuff can be fun and illuminating, if done well.

But this is giving “libs making balkanized China maps” cringe energy.

I’m doing my part! o7

Rent free

I enjoyed the trigonometry unit in my highschool geometry class, but that’s because it was mostly proofs, and those were just philosophy about triangles.

As a colorblind person, this new color palette is so much fucking worse

One of these cultures has normalised vegan and vegetarianism for centuries, the other is trying to wean a meat-obsessed population

As someone who works in a grocery store, the worst fucking people are the ones who go up to the deli counter and yell at the clerks, demanding the "bloodiest* roast beef they’ve got. That or the spiciest turkey, or whatever.

Dudes who’s entire sense of self is invested in eating meat. Easily the most annoying kind of guy I encounter in my daily life.

Doesn’t matter, tbh. It shouldn’t be there in the first place

Cool! Now if only it would scrap the shitty DRM

I’m gonna try and give an actual brief history. The word “Tankie” originated from a split in the Communist party of Great Britain in the 1950s, over the Soviet invasion of Hungary. Those who supported the invasion were called “Tankies” by those who opposed it.

That would’ve been it, and it would have faded into history as an obscure piece of British leftist slang, if it weren’t for the word’s rediscovery decades later, where more modern leftists used the term in a half joking way among each other.

At some point over… Really just the past couple of years or so, tankie breached containment, and has been worming its way into non-leftist people’s vocabularies, where it’s lost any and all connection to its original meaning.

So when, say, OP of this thread uses it, it’s unclear what they mean. Do they mean communists in general? Leftists in general? Supporters of China? What does it mean for a white, Western, leftist to ‘support’ China anyway? Is it just a general term for someone they deem Authoritarian? Or do they mean a specific kind of “Patriotic Socialist” who LARPs as a communist but actually holds deeply reactionary ideas?

It’s all very unclear. So I wouldn’t take “Tankie discourse” too seriously tbh. It’s just a thought terminating cliche at this point. If you want to talk about any of those groups mentioned above… Just be specific and dunk on who you want to dunk on. There’s legitimate, good faith, critiques to be made of all of them. Just make them, and be thoughtful about it.

But running around and calling anyone you don’t like a Tankie doesn’t foster good discussion. Especially when I have to sit down and decipher which one of 6 different possible definitions of “Tankie” someone might be referring to.

homeless people are tankies actually

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