There is no left equivalent, and horseshoe theory is horseshit.

• ‘Horseshoe theory’ is nonsense – the far right and far left have little in common
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory#Academic_studies_and_criticism
• Funny thing about Hannah Arendt’s construction of “totalitarianism”: She came from a bourgeois family and so unsurprisingly was anti-communist. She was also quite racist, and her work was funded & promoted by the CIA.
  Imperialist Propaganda and the Ideology of the Western Left Intelligentsia: From Anticommunism and Identity Politics to Democratic Illusions and Fascism

  One of the centerpieces of the cultural cold war was the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), which was revealed in 1966 to be a CIA front. Hugh Wilford, who has researched the topic extensively, described the CCF as nothing short of one of the largest patrons of art and culture in the history of the world. Established in 1950, it promoted on the international scene the work of collaborationist academics such as Raymond Aron and Hannah Arendt over and against their Marxian rivals, including the likes of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.

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I guess that’s what inspired this The Deprogram episode title: 📺 Anti Klankkker Action

Pretty much it’s a thought-terminating othering. To label someone a tankie is to give license for prejudicially dismissing them.

hipster fascists

You must have us confused with Gavin McInnes.

Tankies have zero clue about actual Marxism.

Those clueless tankie dumdums and their Marxist wiki containing thousands entries and hundreds of books & articles…

• https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/ProleWiki
  ProleWiki was first proposed as an idea on Lemmygrad.
• https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Lemmy
  Lemmy was created in August 2019 by two communist developers known as Dessalines and Nutomic. Their goal for Lemmy was to provide an open-source alternative to Reddit that anyone could self-host and federate with other Lemmy instances, effectively exchanging content between platforms.

Please retire ableist insults.

The term was closely tied with the American eugenics movement.

For which you have precisely the same “evidence,” no more, no less.

Tankies are people who supported the use of tanks to attack the civilian protests against the USSR in Hungary and later Czechoslovakia.

I wouldn’t call fascists or CIA- & bourgeois-backed counterrevolutionaries “civilians.”

• JFK Files Reveal CIA Role in the 1956 Hungarian Uprising The tankies were right
• The 1968 Prague Spring — Counterrevolution as the “Trojan Horse” of Imperialism
• The blueprint of regime change operations - How regime change happens in the 21st century with your consent

Yes, I know that’s all you’ve got as far as lemmy.ml promoting transphobia goes.

Accusations of genocide denial isn’t the cheat code you think it is, or do you not deny the genocide of white South Africans? And what say you to this one? Previously.

And if accusations of promoting transphobia held any water, blahaj & hexbear would have already defederated from us.

remindme! 90 days

blahaj isn’t particularly hostile toward anarchism or democratic socialism, I don’t think, but it’s largely a liberal instance. It’s defederated from hexbear & lemmygrad, so a lot of socialist content is blocked.

dbzer0 is explicitly anarchist. It blocks lemmygrad but not hexbear.

slrpnk is anarchist-friendly and environmentalist. It blocks both hexbear & lemmygrad.

lemmy.ml is predominantly socialist. It’s federated with everyone except for porn and fascist instances^[1]. The only instances that block it that I can only think of are infosec.pub, lemmy.cafe, and programming.dev.

Quite a few instances are defederated from lemmygrad and/or hexbear. Hexbear is basically only blocks lemmy.world, and lemmygrad only blocks porn and fascist instances.

Were they hard-line demsocs, or were they really just “progressive” liberals?

Sure Mr. McCarthy, let’s get you to bed.

A Ukrainian media outlet’s claims aren’t proof any more than their claims about the Ghost of Kyiv were.

Wow, the propaganda in Finland must be even more unhinged from reality than in the US.

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/11/25/8008891/

“Pokrovsk is largely lost. Ukrainian positions still remain on the northern outskirts of the city; however, most of Pokrovsk is under the occupiers’ control. The entire part of the settlement below the railway line that ‘cuts’ the city in half is, according to UP, held by the Russians. Information available to Ukrainska Pravda indicates that the line of contact runs almost along the northern edge of the city. The General Staff map for the Pokrovsk front is at least a month behind reality.”

[Ukrainska Pravda] notes that Pokrovsk became the first city in this war that Ukraine lost not on the ground, but in the air. Around August this year, the Russians established drone control over the airspace of Pokrovsk, including through one of their most effective UAV units, Rubikon. This made logistics and troop rotation on the positions impossible.

I never even heard of Collabora, and so I didn’t understand what the point of it all was, but maybe this sums it up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice

TDF [The Document Foundation] describes LibreOffice as intended for individual users, and encourages enterprises to obtain the software and technical support services from ecosystem partners like Collabora. TDF states that most development is carried out by these commercial partners in the course of supporting enterprise customers. This arrangement has contributed to a significantly higher level of development activity compared to Apache OpenOffice, another fork of OpenOffice.org, which has struggled since 2015 to attract and retain enough contributors to sustain active development and to provide timely security updates.

Enterprise and derivative versions

• Collabora Office and Collabora Online are enterprise-focussed editions of LibreOffice supporting online, mobile and desktop devices. And providing long-term support, technical support, custom features, and Service Level Agreements (SLA)s.

• ZetaOffice – developed by Allotropia, is a paid enterprise version offered as both a desktop application with long-term support and a web-based version using WebAssembly.

In the 2020s, the number of commercial partner organizations decreased. In June 2023, Red Hat announced it would no longer maintain LibreOffice packages in future releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Maintenance of LibreOffice packages for the related Fedora Linux was transitioned to the Fedora LibreOffice Special Interest Group. In 2021, CIB [Computer Integrated Business] spun off its LibreOffice development and support services into a new company, Allotropia. In May 2025, Collabora announced the acquisition of Allotropia, intending to combine Allotropia’s ZetaOffice and WebAssembly with its own Collabora Office and Collabora Online products.

But I still don’t understand why Collabora now has introduces a third flavor (Collabora [Online] Desktop) to the other two (Collabora Online and Collabora Office “Classic”) while LIbreOffice still has two (LibreOffice and LibreOffice Online).

Edit to add: https://www.collaboraonline.com/case-studies/differences-between-collabora-online-and-collabora-office/

Learn about the key differences between Collabora Online and Collabora Office and Collabora Office Classic, and how these products can work for you.

Outside of states with a parliamentary system, “state” and “government” are synonyms. In states with a presidential system, the police are an arm of the executive branch, which is an arm of the state/government.

I’ve had it with these motherfucking MLs on this motherfucking .ml

Remember what happened the last time Ukraine had a deal with the US?

It got couped, and not for the first time.