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  • The atomic unit of propaganda is emphasis. If you force people to stop posting "political" memes in the main memes space then you are implicitly taking the stance is that "non-political" memes are normal and "political" memes are the other. Everyone intuitively understands that being othered is not desirable because the advocates for separation are not the ones volunteering to create their own apolitical memes space, they're trying to get political memes ejected from the mainstream space.

    Of course this isn't literal segregation, but the arguments for separation basically all boil down to "go to this separate but equal space and stay there" so if they don't want to be compared to people who historically made the same argument, they should try coming up with a different argument.

  • I don't think I've seen anyone with a problem with the computing concept itself, they have a problem with the unnecessarily unpleasant and offensive nomenclature. There's lots of ways to express a leader/follower dynamic that's intuitively understandable. Hell, call them Dom/Sub drives if you want to.

    There's just no good reason to invoke historical attrocity that's still ongoing to describe a concept like this.

  • China's stated reason for the sanctions is a policy of a de-nuclearized Korean peninsula. In theory, if the DPRK got nuclear weapons without Chinese opposition, there's nothing China can then say if the ROK pursued nuclear weapons in response.

  • Westoid Journalist: "So tell us about the insidious schemes of the CEE CEE PEE."

    Gao: "Actually, I'm not a CPC member, I'm a member of one of several other political parties recognized by-"

    Westoid Journalist: "DOES NOT COMPUTE. CEE CEE PEE SINGLE PARTY AUTHORITARIANISM TEN TRILLION DEAD WEEEGURTS. DOES NOT COMPUTE DOES NOT COMPUTE."

  • If the worst thing Nazis did was go around sporadically punching people, they would not be the universal byword for evil.

    Going around trying to exterminate people makes you as low as the Nazis. Going around punching Nazis makes you a damn sight better.