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0x726f63636f Mar 23, 2025

@GossiTheDog you'd be surprised how many Italians think we're the best at culture, food and soccer, even though we've got one of the lowest % of readers in Europe, most countries have great food (Vietnam and Lebanon, I'm looking at you), and we haven't played the last two world cups.

0x726f63636f Mar 20, 2025

@Mik3y @ntnsndr @light well, those groups most definitely follow a specific type of communism. A misguided and authoritarian type, but still a type of communism. Fascism is an entirely different type of regime.

0x726f63636f Mar 20, 2025

@Mik3y @light @ntnsndr well, you literally just wrote (a few comments above) that leninists are fascist.

They're not. Dictatorial for sure, but not fascist.

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0x726f63636f Mar 20, 2025

@ntnsndr @light @Mik3y I fully agree that Trump politics are probably neofascist. The disagreement was with another user's comment that communists are also fascist (they may be authoritarian, dictatorial and whatnot, depending on what they mean by communism, but definitely not fascist).

PS. to reiterate the obvious because, well, we're on the internet, I'm not saying that everyone who identifies as communist is automatically dictatorial/authoritarian. Just that some types of communism most definitely are.

0x726f63636f Mar 20, 2025

@Mik3y @light @ntnsndr poop and pee both stink, and I dislike the idea of touching either of them. They're also very different things.

I agree 100% that authoritarianism sucks on any side of the political spectrum. That doesn't mean that we should call communists fascist and vice versa: watering down the specifics of each ideology only makes it harder to identify and to defend from.

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0x726f63636f Mar 20, 2025

@light @Mik3y @ntnsndr +1 for highlighting it.

Maybe the fact that I'm Italian makes me a bit oversensitive about this term (sadly, our recent ancestors invented actual fascism), but fascism is most definitely a very specific brand of right wing extremism. Branding every form of authoritarianism as "fascist" just empties the word, which is a dangerous thing to do today.

0x726f63636f Oct 8, 2024

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0x726f63636f Jul 3, 2023

@beaniezee THANK YOU! As a non-mothertongue speaker, I was actually wondering on how I could use the singular they in practice (seriously, because I wanted to use the right pronoun for colleagues, but I also felt insecure and feared I would make a mess of it). This one post finally made the pieces click together (good old Shakespeare from high school and good manners in the 21st century), so now it's all clear.

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0x726f63636f May 26, 2023

@mattkirbylondon @cosmicvisitors @GossiTheDog the opposite could also make a lot of infosec people rich. Figure out how long it takes onnaverage for the markets to forget the attack, and you'll know when to buy at a discount before the stock starts to rebound.

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0x726f63636f Mar 26, 2023

@micahflee that is amazing. The only change I would make is on the lanyard wording. It's almost impossible to take photos at an event if you can't shoot when even one person with a red lanyard is present, it would be better (and more enforceable) to require that recognizable pictures with red lanyard people are not shared (allowing anyone taking photos to cover them or blur them out before posting anywhere).