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I think you might have forgotten to link the article?

I think they forgot to link the article? Let's see if it gets added in.

So you are Not Dr. Whiskers. Noted.

I'm sorry this happened to you.

That's exactly what Dr. Whiskers would say though, so....

He never used to be....

Russell Brand’s evolution from left-wing comedian to podcast hero of the alt-right

Thanks a lot, you're in.

Awesome, you're in!

There's a good piece on him here if you want all the details: https://www.businessinsider.com/lex-fridman-podcast-anti-woke-elon-musk-ai

It's a bit of a shame we don't see any significant new features in this release. Piefed seems to be developing at a much faster pace compared to Lemmy, which is a bit embarrassing tbh.

What sort of topsy turvy logic are you going for here? That the best way the Democrats can oppose the Republicans is by giving them exactly what they want and voting to confirm all their nominees and legislation? The Democrats have been close to useless as an opposition party so far, because they can't bring themselves to oppose anything in case it makes them look bad to Trump supporters.

If you say so.

You can’t run as fast if you’re leaking from your butt.

Fact.

Gotta say, I'm a fan of your pithy replies.

“Authoritarian” just means the government doing stuff you don’t like.

Oh really? Does it? That's a convenient definition.

And the average anti-tankie “leftist” doesn’t like any leftist project that doesn’t immediately deliver a perfect utopia - happily accepting the capitalist status quo as a “lesser evil” over trying to improve society somewhat.

If you think Russia is heading in the direction of less authoritarianism and more communism then I hate to break it to you, but the exact opposite is happening. It failed to deliver an immediate utopia. It failed to deliver a medium-term utopia. And it seems like in the long run this war will result in a complete collapse of the Russian economy. But I'm sure they'll get there one of these days.

I think what the average anti-tankie leftist doesn't like is the idea that we should replace one bunch of power hungry authoritarians with another bunch of power hungry authoritarians flying a different flag, but doing more or less the same shit.

Most of Lemmy is "woke" and fine with it. Nobody cares that you are a communist. We only care that you defend murderous dictators like Putin, and for example, think it's fine for the Russians to abduct Ukrainian children rather than returning them to their families. That's the sort of issue folks have with tankies. But keep feeling oppressed because you are communist, by all means.

It's perfectly possible to hate tankies while at the same time seeing the potential benefits of socialism or communism. Most people don't hate tankies because they are communist, its mostly because they are insufferable propagandists who leap to defend every tin pot dictatorship that happens to be fighting against US interests.

Banning authoritarians doesn't make one an authoritarian. It just means you don't appreciate their murderous end-justifies-the-means ideology.

Lol I wouldn't lose sleep either way.