I use unsigned and fixed point sub-16 bit integers (you can make them almost any size you want) in gateware you can optimize things and one of those is not using a ton of huge numbers to do math when you don't need to.
Conservatives vaguepost about "the woke", liberals vaguepost about "the tankies", I take them both equally seriously
I hear they're woke too
Ive seen people not liking how horny 196 gets sometimes
I'm not a fan of it, I sub to blahaj because it's a trans instance, but I got sick of having weirdly horny shit in my feed randomly so I unsubbed from 196
It was actually the people who were extremely assmad about tankies who were the ones who were the barrier to federation, rather than the "tankies", from my understanding
Hexbear is a little weird/embarrassing
that this was an option is extremely funny
love the surveys
The problem is that, with a lot of causes like feminism, it’s kind of mushy. It isn’t straightforward, it is loud, it is a winding path. ... I just feel like just simply supporting the rights of women isn’t enough with it and that there’s something more.
This is why intersections are important, there are many interconnected struggles under capitalism which all run into common opposition along misogynistic/classist/racist lines and often with numerous overlaps.
Having an approach which does not include the systemic forces at play from more angles than just one, can lead you to blind spots which cause friction with other people.
I don’t think going out of my way to stand somewhere waving a sign for hours is what I think a good way to spend time with. I believe we should protest smarter by fighting with facts and being more focused than just allowing intrusive and irrelevant directives take hold of certain causes.
Demonstrations are only useful if they're actually demonstrating something. If there's nothing actually threatening why should anyone take your demonstration seriously? This doesn't mean you need to be actually getting people in danger, but shit like stopping traffic and being disruptive makes a point where holding signs does not.
My bigger concern is the US weapons getting used to blow them into pieces by your government.
I don't need some stats to point out that it's an apartheid settler state. You were bringing up the stats to deflect from criticism. Having the trappings of votes and parliament doesn't change the material reality.
Oh I thought tankie meant anyone to the left of Biden, because that's how it's being used in practical terms. Cool lore I guess?
Also you know the whole "sending in the tanks" thing comes from Khrushchev right? He was anti stalin- which is why the term reminds me of the way conservatives use 'woke' to indicate to other conservatives that the designated target is 'bad'
Liberals use 'tankie' the same way, regardless of its historical meaning, cause pretty much anyone sufficiently anti-war seems to get called one