I wish I could get drunk on the job and waste millions of dollars of taxpayer money without even so much as a write up :(

I think my ad blocking somewhere broke their comment section, don’t get to see the MAGAt craziness today ig :(

so happy for liberals on the internet to finally have their own thought terminating cliche in “tankies”, the jealousy for “woke” must have been overwhelming

Lol how nice you can just label any word you don’t like as a “thought terminating cliche” or was it just an “Ill defined term” or was it just because “authoritarianism is ill defined”

In any case I used it to describe a group of people who are quite literally authoritarian as described here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof.

insomuch as USAID was a tool for exerting soft power by lifting up global communities and spreading goodwill for America through humanitarian effort, I support what it was, I didn’t want to see it gutted. insomuch as China is exerting soft power by building infrastructure and investing in industry, it’d be nice to see the US exert a little soft power against us citizens from time to time.

Yes, similar goals, differing execution

Are you talking about China’s belt and road initiative? Lol it’s all about soft power and that’s what they’re after, resources are just a happy bonus.

The US’s USAID is essentially the equivalent but yet the tankies will deride against it all day and even cheer Drump and Muskrat on because they’re doing something they want (dismantling it) but in the same breath, will defend Belt and Road as some greater altruistic good

Oh yea, replacing a near-authoritarian globally dominant country with another full-authoritarian country. What could possibly go wrong!

I tagged them last year as a “FUD/Misinfo spreader”, every encounter with them has an 80% chance of reinforcing the tag lol

In a town painted Red, not so far away, Lived the Projecters who had much to say. PROJECTING their faults with the greatest of ease, PROJECTING their guilt like a strange heart disease!

“Those blues over there are the ones who are bad! They do all the things that make everyone sad!” But the truth of the matter, quite funny to see, They were PROJECTING exactly what they happened to be!

When caught with their hands in the cookie display, “It’s the Blues who eat cookies!” they would hastily say PROJECTING their actions with thunderous noise, Using PROJECTION as one of their favorite toys!

Oh, the PROJECTING they did was a sight to behold, The stories theyd spin and the tales that were told! PROJECTING their fears and their schemes on the rest, While doing those things they PROJECTED with zest!

And would they admit it? Oh no, not at all! They’d PROJECT even harder and stand very tall. For PROJECTING protects them from looking within At the truth of their actions, their very own sin!

So she would at least be able to answer that with something like “No. I actively condemn the human rights abuses by North Korea and <insert whatever list of pseudo-communist fascist regimes get spewed>. What I do not condemn are government programs to assist those in need and…”

You have been banned from Lemmy․ml

Actually, it was making the rounds on tiktok as early as the 29th from what I could tell

Here’s the extracted video

https://i.imgur.com/gFMnZ40.mp4

The last 24 hours have brought a parade of humiliation for the world’s richest edgelord

Damn, a CNN journalist wrote this? Are we sure‽ LMAO

Don’t forget “Traditional values” and “Nuclear Family” lol

30% of people are legitimate cultists.

Coworker to vote even though she thought it was a waste of time

Be sure to at least once drop that “Hey remember when you said voting was a waste of time, but you still did and something good happened?” Nugget

Oh hey look, someone actually doing something lol

for synthetic and push it out to 5k+ miles.

Haha yeah

Hides my car always pushing 10k miles

Wow, how prestigious of a law firm that can’t even fight against something so blatantly illegal

Who said that? I did a search in the thread and no Ody said anything about that that I saw

They’re putting a LOT of faith in those arteries holding up that long LMFAO

Basically, slammed the source code door shut after making promissory statements like “Don’t worry, we’ll always be open source” for years. With little/no notice they relicensed everything and pivoted to a closed source paywall model.

No discussion with the community or contributors, no alternatives explored, no polls or surveys. Just woke up one day to a “Sorry, but we’re going closed source because moneyyyy” blog post

Jellyfin was born right after, forked out of vengeance.

In retrospect we should have seen it coming when they would do odd little things, like keeping the build scripts closed source n crap, but eh hindsight and all that lol

They’re not just closed source, they started as the open source project response to Plex. It was promised that they would be open source forever. They lied, slammed the source door shut a few years later and pivoted to a paywall.

There was no discussion with the community or contributors, no alternatives explored, no surveys or polls.

Just a “Sorry we’re going closed source” blog post, Jellyfin was forked from them in vengeance.