I love that they added a separate line item for number of submarines killed. LOL.

I love this guy’s channel. Two of my other favorite things he’s done are: Uppest Case / Lowest Case, and that time he Reverse Emulated a NES.

Incredible.

'Cause I’m drunk on a Thursday (Friday very early in the morning), and I’ve lost control of my life.

… Or you could just read a history book that wasn’t written by a Mao fanboi.

I mean, that’s just realpolitik. It’s more advantageous for Ukraine to have Russian nazis attacking Russia than it is to denouce them and deprive them of an operating base. Ultimately, the Russian Volunteer Corps’ interests are aligned with Ukraine’s interests in that they both want to depose Putin. As odious as it is, it’s the way global politics are done.

You know what’s hilarious? According to the book “The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History 1962-1976”, During the height of the Chinese cultural revolution, it became the fashion to wear pins that featured Mao in profile. In fact, if you didn’t have one of these, you were seen as a pretender; someone who didn’t take the revolution seriously. The problem is, these pins were made of aluminum. Due to the popularity of these pins, China was temporarily denuded of available aluminum. Workers were stripping aluminum shielding off of their machines to make these pins, and there was a thriving black market where people could buy them. So basically, to show off how good they were at communism, they went to the most capitalist of places (the black market) to buy these things. Mao even, at one point, decried the industry, lamenting the lack of available aluminum to make airframes for fighter jets.

But that’s the thing - as important as the struggle was to the people in the revolution, it paled in comparison to the need to prove to everybody else that you supported the struggle. If you didn’t have one of those pins, you might as well just sign up to be part of the next struggle session.

To be fair, Anton Chigurh also flipped a coin to decide people’s fate, and that dude was fucking terrifying. And he didn’t even use a gun. Most of the time, anyway.

LOL wut? Fuckin’ Tankies and making shit up. Can anybody name a more iconic duo? The protestors were pro-democracy and were shot / squished by the CCP. It wasn’t even that long ago, either. Only, what, 34 years? Amazing how much people can twist shit in such a short period of time.

Nah, your weird attempts at persuasion via stilted language

I’m not sure you know what the word “stilted” means.

are real fuckin tiring already and I just joined this conversation.

Ok. Well, you’re under no obligation to post. Thank you for your contribution, though.

Ok, so I guess we can add “poor reading comprehension” to the list.

I did not make excuses for nazis. The person that I was responding to made an incredibly slippery slope argument, and I was using hyperbole to point that out. If you don’t understand that, I suggest you take a remedial class in English at your local community college.

No, I had very good reason to insult them. If you would like to know my reasons, I’m more than happy to discuss it.

So, does that mean that you cannot articulate an answer, or just that you don’t choose to?

Everyone that disagrees with @bucho@lemmy.one is insane and deluded, a bedtime story for smug crybully liberals.

Well, I didn’t say that. You did. And I disagree with it. What I said is that “hexbearians” are generally delusional, and I feel pretty vindicated in that assessment by the many, many posts by them in this thread. As an example of delusion, you decided that you know enough about me to infer that I believe that everybody whose opinions differ from my own must be delusional, despite very little evidence to back that claim up.

Fucking rich that you cry about “combativeness” when you lead with the above post.

Pointing something out that is true is not crying. And yes. You’re very combative.

Uh… how’s that, then? Don’t worry - I don’t work as a road paver.

I agree. Your mods suck.

I’ve seen that in a lot of threads, and there never really seems to be a common definition for what that actually means. Could you enlighten the class?

… Ok. You’ve already contributed several times to the “delusional” pile of evidence, but more is always appreciated, I suppose. Thank you for your eagerness.

Well, that post is actually where I learned about you lot. Granted, I’d heard quite a bit about tankies beforehand, but just never realized how far divorced from reality y’all actually are. Then, I was greeted with a whole horde of absolute morons with such incredibly braindead takes that I felt compelled to ask a couple of them if they had suffered brain damage as a child. It was that question which got me banned, actually. Asking if they had been dropped on their heads as a kid.

And it made me realize that in addition to being delusional, y’all are also generally crybabies to boot.

That’s a mighty big leap there, skipper. The nazis also occasionally paved roads. Does that mean that all DoT workers are secretly nazis, too?