it's like how every so often you have to tell someone referring to the final design for a software project as "the final solution" is probably not the best phrasing
Simply not true. "Tankie" is NOT the same as "Pinko" or "Commie." There are 2 major strains of communist political thought. There's authoritarian communism and anarchocommunism. Anarchocommunists are Marxist, authoritarian communists are Marxist-Leninist (or bolshevik, or Stalinist). I DO agree with you that the major views of Marxists on Lemmy are in line with the views of various communist parties worldwide, but I DO NOT agree that these communist parties that people like you are aligned with are either the totality of communist thought, or representative of how all communists think. When a communist like me calls a communist like you a tankie, it's because when I look at the history of authoritarian communism, I notice a pattern of suffering and stratification amongst the populace. The USSR exploited labor and was, ultimately, a capitalist nationalist imperialist colonial state.
And before you go saying I support liberalism, I do not. There is not a binary between USSR style communism and American style capitalism. When you get down to it, they are in effect means to the same end. A system of enriching a central cabal of power authority at the cost of the average global citizen.
So in summary. "Tankie" is not a label that right wingers apply to discredit leftist thought. It's a label left wingers use to discredit right wing thought masquerading as left wing thought.
That's actually impossible. Politics is a question of systems engineering. Programming is a question of systems engineering. Creating propaganda is a matter of creating and disseminating information in a particular way. Coding is a matter of creating and disseminating information in a particular way. A person's outlook will always influence the programs they design, the platforms they build, and the algorithms they tune.
I went on two dates with a data analyst from the DoJ in 2021. On the second date, when she went full mask off Nazi, I realized
America is VERY cooked
Our ancestors really had to work hard to find suitable partners. These days with dating apps you can review a person's resume and get some idea if you're compatible before you find out if their butt is nice, but our ancestors were just out in public, looking at butts, and THEN asking for credentials
every agreed to cease fire russia has used to rearrange their troops and then launch a surprise attack. as long as the kremlin leadership remains the same, no person, agency, tribe, state, or nation should trust a single russian overture towards peace or justice
The Steranko History of Comics is to me the capstone of the Golden Age of Comics. Not that it was contemporary to it, it came out towards the end or after the silver age of comics, but I think that retrospective look back at the Golden Age is what makes it so important to understanding the golden age. Contemporaries in the Golden Age couldn't have known what the totality of their influences on the world would be. They were just part of a movement, and a lot of them were just there to get access to the stew pot. As the silver age closed, though, it's very easy to imagine someone looking back past the silver age into the golden age and really see it for what it was, and to understand "This was actually something really influential, and another moment like this will probably never come again"
And then a lot of the rest of what I know comes from listening to people talk at conventions (mainly recordings of those). There's a lot of oral history to comic books as they exist as a result of the relationship Comic books have with propaganda and street art. A lot of comic book purists believe that a comic book should not arrive to the reader with any instructions on how to interpret it. The reader must take it in and consider it, and once they are co-located with someone involved with the making of the comic, or someone who's gotten the information word of mouth, learn how to interpret the propaganda from verbal confirmation. Oda, the mangaka of One Piece, for many years was very cage-y about how to interpret his work and would always answer any questions from readers with "I can't just tell you everything, you have to figure it out" but lately has been a bit more direct and urgent about that his work is a monumental piece of fiction intended to communicate that liberation movements need the following:
Laughter
A willingness to do violence
Queers
A sense of found family
An unwillingness by leadership to define themselves as heroes because calling yourself a hero makes you a self mythologizing autocrat
i hear you and get that's what you're saying. all i'm saying is is that in the history of america, that was the peak of compassion and patience in our system. and as you said, the corporations decided to make us choose between fascism immediately or fascism down the road. 10 years ago was the most progressive we've ever been and it was so far from good enough.
which still saw america as being the greatest it had ever been in 2015. the united states has been an eternal nightmare, and the fact that the people were forcing it to be better, kicking and screaming, was the tidal shift that saw the parasites clamoring for 45.
it's the two santas cycle. republicans make everything worse for everyone. democrats, instead of working to undo the harm, put in stop gap measures to mitigate the harm establishing a new, worse, status-quo different from the one before the republicans made everything worse. nothing is new, and this is how the overton window always shifts rightward. also the two santas cycle and the ratchet problem are two ways of describing the same thing
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it's like how every so often you have to tell someone referring to the final design for a software project as "the final solution" is probably not the best phrasing