I don’t think it makes sense to think of the Satanic Panic as projection. It was a feedback loop between middle-class, stay-at-home moms and the profit-seeking media. No one in that loop was practicing Satanism.

Yeah, and since System76 supports Nvidia cards in their hardware, the drivers tend to work out of the box.

Any reason not to do both? Democrats are bad, but Republicans are obviously worse.

XPS13. You can still get a 1080p non-touch screen with Ubuntu pre-installed (at a discount vs. windows). I’ve had mine just over 3 years and it’s still going strong.

Bluetooth headsets. Still can’t have sound and microphone at the same time, which isn’t great.

You said…

Tankies aren’t communists, they’re authoritarians with a red paint job.

Per the definition:

Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists

So you have the ability to look up definitions, just not to read them, apparently.

Editing old posts doesn’t prevent them from being used for training AI data. It would prevent the data from being scraped, but Reddit, X, Meta, etc. are certainly storing all of your edits and training models on them, both internally and for third-parties who are paying for that data.

I see, so your personal experience – rife with confirmation and composition fallacies – is how we should debate politics. That’s clearly valuable.

What I’ve referred to is the definition of a tankie.

Oh, I see, you’re the authority on definitions, so whatever you say goes. Even the term “semantic argument” will be bent to mean whatever is convenient for your argument. Can you define “bad faith argument,” lol?

The problem with your argument is that it relies entirely on anecdotal evidence and personal experience, which is heavily influenced by confirmation bias.

You’re making a semantic argument and wrapping it up with a “no true Scotsman” fallacy.

OP is making an assumption about his opposition with zero evidence to support his claim. It’s a claptrap for people who want to feel intellectually superior, even if it’s to a straw man.

Trump doesn’t want the oil for himself, he wants to keep his keyholders happy. He wants U.S. oligarchs to be able to extract resources from Venezuela.

Not a tankie, but this kind of framing is reductionist and condescending. It’s possible for someone to study the spectrum of political ideology and rationally decide that Communism is the best system. It’s honestly disheartening that a non-falsifiable claim presented with zero evidence would garner this many upvotes on this platform.

He’s not a member of the Democratic Party.