Bibliotectress @ bibliotectress @lemmy.world

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Thank you for taking the time to explain! I appreciate you!

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I'm confused, and you seem to be a lot more familiar with the term. I read the wiki link that explains tankies. I don't personally know any left leaning people who support Russia/Stalin/China regimes. Maybe because of my America-centric viewpoint and where things are today, but typically people who are economically left are also socially and politically left (equal opportunity is more important than individual freedoms), which is very anti-fascist. I've heard people say how great a true communism could be if it were possible, but no one's ever made it past a dictatorship to get there.

Are tankies people who are economically left but socially and politically right, and think someone has achieved a communist utopia without knowing anything about the corrupt oligarchies in Russia or CCP China?

I don't know. I think it depends more on where they grow up and who/what they're exposed to (in person and online). At the high school I work at, we have a bunch of lgbtq+ teens whose conservative parents have no idea they're queer or go by a different name. But I also don't live somewhere like Wyoming with a much higher conservative population. I live in a college town in a (barely) blue county surrounded by red counties in an ultimately very blue state.

I hope we find a way to kill the online radical right pipeline and continue to expose more teens to other ideas, other cultures, and other ways of life, and maybe it won't matter so much who their parents are.

Bro.

Some of Justin Roilands DMs with underage girls

I still haven't played it. I felt like I should play the first couple before I play #3, but I started this first one, got distracted, and now it's been years.

Do you feel like you missed out on understanding things by starting with Witcher 3 vs. playing the others first?

Normally, I don't respond to "bOtH sIdEs" comments, but I was worried that other people might listen to you and won't show up to vote, or will throw it away on a 3rd party candidate when our country unfortunately isn't set up for that to work. We'd have to reform how voting works and campaign finance laws to even possibly make what you're suggesting a tiny bit workable.

Things Biden has gotten done that are important to me in no particular order:

• Ukraine response
• Bipartisan (barely - 13 Rs in House, 19 Rs in Senate) Infrastructure Law (spending on fixing bridges, roads, etc.)
• CHIPS and Science Act (semiconductor chip manufacturing)
• Inflation Reduction Act (capped Medicare drug costs at $2k out of pocket, capped insulin prices for Medicare to $35 per month, increased funding for IRS to modernize and audit the wealthy, increased corporate taxes, investment in green energy)
• Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (strengthened background checks on guns, incentives red flag laws)
• Paused federal executions after Trump undid the previous freeze
• Repealed Trump's ban on trans troops in the military
• Attempting student loan debt relief
• Released oil from the National Reserve to make gas prices less painful
• Signed bill for veteran burn pit care
• Postal Service Reform Act (modernize and fix the USPS)
• Respect for Marriage Act (forces ALL states to recognize same-sex marriage and interracial marriage rights)
• Renewed Violence Against Women Act after Trump let it expire
• Declared Juneteenth a holiday
• Pardoned federal convictions of marijuana possession
• Spent over $10.7 billion on federal, state, local, and tribal land conservation and has protected over 12 million acres of national public land (some of which had their protections removed by Trump)

(edited to fix a bullet point)

It should be the same since an air fryer is just a convection oven. Depending on the size of your oven, the cooking times might take a little longer.

Unrelated, but I love your username. It surprised a smile out of me. Thank you!