Ain’t nothing wrong with this world that a little bit of nuclear war wouldn’t fix

We’re supposed to feel extra sorry for this… person because they’re a member of the US military?

Why are you like this?

All pedophiles who have committed acts should receive the death penalty, period.

According to actual experts that’d be a great way to make sure children don’t report any relatives who abuse them

The question is, how many other articles with fake quotes are there on Ars? And not just Ars, but across the mainstream media

Why not do your own thing?

Conservatives are incapable of doing anything original or constructive

The Nazi SA were also fishing for a reaction from Jews, leftists, social democrats etc. – they assaulted and murdered them, and then when someone fought back they’d use it as an excuse to say “oh look how violent these Jews (or whatever) are”.

Does that mean nobody should have violently opposed Nazis? Or will these “people” find an excuse anyhow, regardless of if you give them a reaction or not?

Oh we’re now pretending that tankies aren’t pro-Russia?

This just in: local dumbass thinks every use of every word must be 100% literal. Non-literal and metaphorical uses of words have been banned and deemed “just vibes”, and any such use is grounds for a labour camp sentence.

Sounds like a “you” problem

Tankies will be the first to tell you Russia isn’t communist and isn’t anywhere near being Communist.

That’s great because I never said anything about modern Russia being communist?

They were liberating people from not being in gulags and the oppression of self-determination, of course

Yeah, the “platonic ideal downvote” is only supposed to be used for content that “doesn’t contribute to the conversation” or whatever, but that is very often just not the case. There’s even research on how downvotes easily lead to a bandwagon effect: here’s a blog post on this, based on a research article.

Hmm, I should probably create a Beehaw account and move over there. It’s a shame that account migration really isn’t a thing on Lemmy

I’ve thought that it’s some sort of “residual Sovietness” that they attribute to Russia. Because the Soviets were “anti-imperialist” (they weren’t, but they said they were and stupid people believed them), so being the rightful heir of the USSR, Russia is also “anti-imperialist” and therefore good. Also, anything negative said about Russia is a NATO CIA Nazi reactionary lie (apparently even when the Russians themselves are saying it)

Apparently you still can’t criticise the Holy Ars even when they put out AI slop articles, because that’s SPITTING ON BABIES

Downvotes are just samethink fuel.

What I don’t understand about tankies is how do they square supporting Russia with being leftists? How does supporting an explicitly nationalist and extremist right wing country fit into a leftist world view? Like, they themselves explicitly say that they’re for all those things, you don’t have to listen to CIA plants on Lemmy or whatever, just read what people in the Russian government or eg Dugin say about what they think Russia is, and it’s very much exactly the opposite of what you’d expect a leftist to want or like

He seemed pretty optimistic that this would hopefully bring back forums/irc/vent servers or anything self hostable

He’s naive as hell, especially if he thinks that the average person is willing to self-host fuck-all.

This’ll drive some of the more privacy-conscious users somewhere else, but some might not have an option depending on what they use it for, and many software projects etc. use Discord for support (“I just won’t use that software!” is an idiot’s answer to that, because again, you might not have a choice). LGBT+ folks will probably be more spooked, but even they might not have a choice.

The average user won’t give a flying fuck

Didn’t even have to click the link to know that this has to be Jonathan Ferguson, the keeper of firearms and artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK, which houses a collection of thousands of iconic weapons from throughout history