The only value posting something that requires a login is when a bypass to that login is being provided.

The conflation of insults hurled by schoolyard bullies and terminology used in law and government is a routine theme with this topic.

Is this because the OP has an .ml account? Their post history seems pretty generically pro-Palestine/anti-zionist and privacy/FOSS focused to jeer at them as a ‘tankie’. There seems to be some definitional drift at work here.

I just have never heard of a people’s powerful movement that used that as the tactic, and had that type of thing be instrumental in its success.

It is about breaking the default mindsets and forcing critical thinking into areas unallowed in most discourse. On one hand it does help people begin to dispel narratives people have been raised on. On the other hand it can just harden people against it and foster prejudices.

Most people I know in America willing to use the C and S word in politics know they will never achieve honest discourse in the current culture and climate. But that’s been changing more in the last 10 or so years than I have ever seen, for what it is worth. But, like, Luigi has done more than a podcast, Hexbear or any instance in that regard.

You don’t really need to listen to the podcast itself, but knowing about it is really useful. Essentially the whole schtick is being vulgar to trigger those who are unable or unwilling to challenge the status quo.

The podcast does it better than the derivative of its fanbase.

The other Hexbear thing is they don’t have downvotes and encourage dogpiling in disagreement, which is a big cultural no-no for the redditor.

So the antagonization forms a feedback loop, understandably.

I have a screenshot from a time in an MMORPG where a member died before they could do a global event quest they’d always wanted to do. There was a player-driven server-wide memorial event where her character was run through the quest by friends so that her name could be honored by a global broadcast message.

The game and the servers are now gone, but that screenshot of everyone holding torches for her character on that day still means a lot to me 20 years on.

So yeah, I think a steam account can fit that billing as a memorial.

If you want to understand and observe there is the podcast ‘Chapo Trap House’ which you can look into. Hexbear quite literally originated from its fanbase, and makes their antics make a whole lot more sense.

In the United States being on ‘the left’ is arbitrarily just being ‘left of far-right’.

The ‘Radical Far Left’ is anything that isn’t devoted to capitalism. This isn’t a Republican talking point but the central prerequisite to American politics that thinks Bernie Sanders would’ve had executions in central park.

The old issue with Azov had a lot to do with them receiving weapons and training from U.S. military prior to the full russian invasion in 2022. The backtracking and legitmization of the battalion in response is typically what people are most critical of. Seems silly how those optics used to be a concern.

The normalization and defenses of it, the crying maga soyjack, has been coming from the the major media networks from what I have seen.

MAGA is stroking it.

Until communities within instances can federate with each other this kind of consolidation is likely inevitable. Though that’s more of a lemmy specific perspective.

They really don’t understand how conservative media works. These are effectively indictments and admissions of guilt and conspiracy to any conservative pundit the last four fucking decades.

“I posted a low effort meme expressing support, thank me later.”

“People live in cities and get degrees in college towns” map.

The fuck with this obsession of telling people whether they are or are not trans online?

Along with everyone from Henry Ford to Milton Freidman? Drawing the most tenuous links to bitcoin for the sake of it, I guess.

Diablo is like stacking blocks. Stacking blocks is fun. Diablo 1 gave you some mixed blocks to play with and you could make some fun towers. Sometimes you’d get the Butcher, sometimes Skeleton King, and so on. Some of the uniques items you’d find really defined a playthrough.

Diablo 2 gave you more blocks and more stackable shapes. You got skill trees, more clasdes, more item parameters, and just plain stuff to wedge on a more intricate tower.

Diablo 3 and 4 appear to have attempted to bedazzle the existing shapes and allow players to buy stickers. There was little, if any, innovation beyond revenue.

Like, Blizzaed saw Grinding Gear Games acquire money through cosmetics and thought that was what people were over there for. (And they mostly just implemented Final Fantasy 10 sphere grid… and solved the ‘gold/currency’ problem.) But I have to admit I was so lacking in interest I never bought 3 and 4–only watched someone play a bit is all.

Castro’s reign was pretty marked with attempted coups, assassinations, and outright invasion. You know, the standard cold war experience.

The whole ‘make life as hard as possible so the people have no choice but overthrow their government’ strategy hasn’t really been effective. Ever.

Essentially that the mechanisms creating billionaires in China, (state run capitalism), is a part of a calculated process of socialism.

The problems with lemmy.ml mainly come from users going into their communities and saying things that go against the grain.

This is overwhelmingly the case from what I have seen.