• Eldritch@piefed.worldEnglish
    542·
    11 days ago

    When their side does it, it’s okay. I was told I was a shitlib the other day for daring to criticize Lenin and Stalin.

    Don’t you know the industrialization lifted the material condition of those the party didn’t murder or send to Siberia to die?!

    Whoop-de-doo! That’s like saying it was justified stealing the homes of and killing the natives of the American North was good. Because the Detroit auto industry raised the material condition of a lot of people who weren’t killed or run from their homes.

  • Harvey656@lemmy.worldEnglish
    262·
    10 days ago

    I’m sure I’m not far behind in the ban, but the absolute state of a tankies mind is stunningly unhealthily internet brained.

  • Glide@lemmy.caEnglish
    103·
    10 days ago

    Beginning his working life as a bus driver, Maduro rose to become a trade union leader before being elected to the National Assembly in 2000.

    Finally, a grass roots, socialist, politician.

    Between 2013 and 2023, Venezuela dropped 42 places in the Press Freedom Index. According to estimations by the United Nations (UN) and Human Rights Watch, under Maduro’s administration, more than 20,000 people have been subject to extrajudicial killings and seven million Venezuelans have been forced to flee the country.

    …well, nevermind then.

    I was unfamiliar with him before now. God damn.

  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
    71·
    9 days ago

    finally mask off being “not these conservatives” , pretending to be the left-extremist or whatever while parroting right wing talking points at the same time.

  • njm1314@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    10 days ago

    That is such an innocuous comment for you to make an entire post about.

  • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    54·
    11 days ago
    Needs text alternative.

    Images of text break much that text alternatives do not. Losses due to image of text lacking alternative such as link:

    • usability
      • we can’t quote the text without pointless bullshit like retyping it or OCR
      • text search is unavailable
      • the system can’t
        • reflow text to varied screen sizes
        • vary presentation (size, contrast)
        • vary modality (audio, braille)
    • accessibility
      • lacks semantic structure (tags for titles, heading levels, sections, paragraphs, lists, emphasis, code, links, accessibility features, etc)
      • some users can’t read this due to lack of alt text
      • users can’t adapt the text for dyslexia or vision impairments
      • systems can’t read the text to them or send it to braille devices
    • web connectivity
      • we have to do failure-prone bullshit to find the original source
      • we can’t explore wider context of the original message
    • authenticity: we don’t know the image hasn’t been tampered
    • searchability: the “text” isn’t indexable by search engine in a meaningful way
    • fault tolerance: no text fallback if
      • image breaks
      • image host is geoblocked due to insane regulations.

    Contrary to age & humble appearance, text is an advanced technology that provides all these capabilities absent from images.

    Better to explore sources, context, & get accessibility.

    • Glide@lemmy.caEnglish
      132·
      10 days ago

      Between 2013 and 2023, Venezuela dropped 42 places in the Press Freedom Index. According to estimations by the United Nations (UN) and Human Rights Watch, under Maduro’s administration, more than 20,000 people have been subject to extrajudicial killings and seven million Venezuelans have been forced to flee the country.

      If you don’t describe that as fascism, you are the problem.

      • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.netEnglish
        95·
        10 days ago

        Maduro is not a fascist. I would recommend reading up on the meaning of the word before tossing it around so haphazardly.

        • Glide@lemmy.caEnglish
          65·
          10 days ago

          Maduro is widely considered a dictator, leading an authoritarian government characterized by electoral fraud, serious human rights abuses, rampant corruption, and severe economic hardship.

          The UN Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela concluded that the country’s justice system independence has been deeply eroded; the mission also identified frequent due process violations, including political external interference and the admission of evidence through torture. Most Venezuelan television channels are controlled by the state, and information unfavourable to the government is not covered completely.

          C’mon, man. If you want to play some “the facts available about him are lies” angle, I’d still think you’re full of shit and move on with my life, but at least our disagreement would be a matter of belief rather than fact. You’re going to read that and argue that it doesn’t describe a fascist? While saying that my history degree leaves me unread on the subject?

          Go fuck yourself, dude.

          • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.netEnglish
            56·
            10 days ago

            I guess you still didn’t look up the definition of fascist?

            I don’t know what kind of history degree would leave you so ignorant of this issue but maybe you should ask for a refund.

            • Glide@lemmy.caEnglish
              63·
              10 days ago

              I really hope this is some kind of poorly thought out gag.

              Fascism is characterized by support for a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived interest of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.

              So that’s, what, 4/7 at a quick glance? If I had less to do I’d dig in a little and see if he fits the other three. Unfortunately, a spat on Lemmy isn’t really worth the time.

              It’s not my job to teach you what words mean, and yet here I am. This will be my last good-faith response. If you’re just here to troll, do it elsewhere.

              • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.netEnglish
                51·
                9 days ago

                That’s the thing though. Those other three are pretty important.

                It’s not a troll, I just think fascism is uniquely dangerous and we should use words correctly. This is the same twisting of words that lets people smear Zelinsky or whoever as a fascist. You can always find some points of commonality but you need the whole definition to match, not just parts of it.

                And saying it’s open fascism is even more silly. It’s only open fascism if they’re self-describing that way. There aren’t any openly fascist countries today.

                • Glide@lemmy.caEnglish
                  5·
                  9 days ago

                  You know, I lied. I appreciate an honest response, particularly when coming from such a vitriol laced exchange, so I take back that “last good-faith response” statement.

                  I do still disagree to some capacity, and think that your take is a matter of muddying the methodology with the goal/results. The autocratic dictator with a strangle hold on the media, using their own version of the law to kill/jail their political opponents, is far more important to what makes a fascist than other elements. But there’s a genuine argument to be made that if I can’t be bothered to do a deeper read on the guy and the state of current day Venezula, maybe I shouldn’t throw around the F word so readily, so I’ll take that. I stand by the “the short description is pretty likely a fascist dictator,” but admit that, if we were to take a more serious, academic approach to it, I would absolutely be jumping the gun.

                  Regardless, I appreciate the de-escalation and genuine take on the subject. The snarky one liners and snap backs from both of us were disrespectful to both of us.

                • GrammarPolice@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
                  3·
                  9 days ago

                  Fair enough. My use of the term fascist here was hyperbolic; likely erroneous. Ultranationalism is pretty important to fascism—dare i say fascism can’t exist without it—so I’ll fall on my own sword here.

                  It’s only open fascism if they’re self-describing that way. There aren’t any openly fascist countries today.

                  I’d push back slightly here though. It isn’t attractive to self identify as fascist these days, so i think we’d expect essentially no countries (or individuals) doing so. America is crypto-fascist as things stand under Trump.

                • TheFrirish@tarte.nuage-libre.frFrançais
                  21·
                  9 days ago

                  Agreed but just to give you a counterpoint to your last part.

                  It’s not because they don’t describe themselves as fascist that they are not fascist. The European far-right hates it when you tell them that they are far right. They always respond by saying no I am « conservative » or « I just want to protect our culture » etc…

        • Glide@lemmy.caEnglish
          81·
          9 days ago

          Ooh, stepped on a nerve here.

          I mean, for what it’s worth, you’re absolutely right about my countries moral issues, and those are two major failings of the Canadian government. But I am not my country, and I hold my government accountable for that at every opportunity, so go fuck yourself.

          But this isn’t about that, is it? Someone is trolling around here because we offended their favorite dictator, huh? Maybe don’t attach your ego to fascists and you won’t spend your time creating troll accounts to simp for authoritarian governments. Or does the leather of their boots just do it for you? I mean, I won’t kink shame, but if you’re going to ask to be stepped on, at least pick someone who respects human rights. They’ll actually listen when you use the safe word.

          Edit - Imagine creating a new burner account to make two seperate replies to a comment. Maybe the first guy forgot to mark this comment as read, so the second guy left another comment after shift swap.

          I kid. It’s far more likely this is just some idiot who’s been rage baited so hard by this thread that they aren’t even reading anymore.

    • hatorade@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 days ago

      Anything I don’t like is fascism, but we will have users here use fascist dogwhistles is MoG.