People dont like it when you point out that them commuting to work uses vastly more energy than LLM usage though.

Its definitely not terrorism, but its more than just vandalism. Spraying paint into a jet engine is going to severly damage if not completly break it. Sabotage is probably the best description, of military equipment that wasnt doing anything involved with Palestein.

The crazy thing is, its not impossible you’re right. It’s not impossible that the most successful party in democratic politics (in terms of winning elections) implodes and is consumed by a brand new crypto-fash party built around one man.

You are right, but also I doubt she was expecting her protesting to directly change anyone in power’s mind. The tactic is obviously to keep doing this with people who are very media friendly (little old grannies and the like) so stories keep getting into the papers of “lovely person arrested for protesting!” which does put pressure on the government.

Given that there’s ~50 flights just from Heathrow to Berlin’s main airport today, my guess is quite a lot of people.

Essentially that there a bunch of far-left users (in reddit in this case but in other places too) colloquially refered to as “tankies”. They are noticably different from other groups and the centre- and far-left in what they talk about, who they associate with, and the agressiveness of their discussions.

They are far more focused on parroting the offical state position of the CCP, DPRK and Russia, far less interested in social issues and more interested in geo-politics, and far more likely to use violent language “kill the libs” etc.

The authors show this by looking at a huge chunk of reddit posts seeing who posts what, where and how communities link to each other.

This figure

is hard to understand at first but instructive once you do. For each of the word pairing the word on the left is what the tankie subreddits use and the one on the right is what the non tankie far-left subreddit in that column uses, the number is how strong this difference is. For example the blue one in the third column (Zelensky - Trump) means that the tankies use “Zelensky” in the same way the r/DemocraticSocialism uses “Trump”, presumably talking shit about them. It gives a sense of just how different the discourse is between them and even the groups who you would expect to be ideologically most similar to them, and how they hugely prefer to use terms and framing that the Russian and Chinese government do.

I saw some research about this recently let me see if I can find it, it was based on reddit communities but I think it applies to lemmy as much if not more.

ah here it is

ABSTRACT

Social media’s role in the spread and evolution of extremism is a focus of intense study. Online extremists have been involved in the spread of online hate, mis- and disinformation, and real-world violence. However, most existing work has focuses on right-wing extremism. In this paper, we perform a first of its kind large-scale measurement study exploring left-wing extremism. We focus on “tankies,” a left-wing community that first arose in the 1950s in support of hardline actions of the USSR and has evolved to support what they call “Actually Existing Socialist” countries, e.g., CCP-run China, the USSR, and North Korea. We collect and analyze 1.3M posts from 53K authors from tankie subreddits, and explore the position of tankies within the broader far-left community on Reddit. Among other things, we find that tankies are clearly on the periphery of the larger far-left community. When examining the contents of posts, we find misalignments and conceptual homomorphisms that confirm the description of tankies in the theoretical work. We also discover that tankies focus more on state-level political events rather than social issues. Our findings provide empirical evidence of the distinct positioning and discourse of left-wing extremist groups on social media.

Aye quite possibly, there’s a pinned post about it on their front page so its possible its taking a bit of a load battering. I’ll keep my eye out for your instance then.

Lots of people witter on about young men becoming right wing in the UK like we’re America, in reality young men were the second most left wing demographic after young women in the last election.

Given that in the 2024 election the two most left wing groups (lab+lib+green voting) were 18-24 women followed by 18-24 men, probably not.

Is there a post on this anywhere? I’d consider moving to solarpunk to get off lemmy and away from the tankies, but when I tried the .world piefed instance it was incredibly slow.

Thats because in general the “leftists” that occupy spaces like ml arent really leftists at all, they are anti-western idologues. You will very rarely see them posting about things left wing people tend to care about like workers rights, cost of living, housing or things like that. They are far more interested in geopolitics, especially on issues where they can make “west bad” posts.

Theres also the upcomming Framework desktops with 128GB of unified ram for ~$2500

I am in fact! But even there I dont see people saying all cars banned at all times for everyone (though you might get people who want to ban cars from some places or at certain times).

I just get a feeling that people (again, not you personally) raise up “what about disabled drivers” when they actually think “I dont care about public transport and this would inconvenience my driving slightly”.

I dont think I’ve ever seen anyone say all personal vehicles should be banned, and I would assume dedicated carers would be bottom of the list of people to discourage from driving them.

But there is still always this refrain of “what about disabled people who need to drive” whenever nudging people away from cars to public transport is brought up. I dont mean that as a dig at you personally, but it is a noticable pattern.

also I would like more options available for disabled people that can’t take public transport.

I hear this line and others like it a lot, but realisticly how many people are there who are so disabled they cant take public transport but arent so diabled that they can drive a car safely? Its pretty common for me to see people in wheelchairs taking the bus.

No, you were quite literally projecting that, they asked if the government position was wrong. You are assuming bad faith and it’s poor behaviour.

Please read people’s comments before deciding for them what their position is and demonising them for what you decide they are saying.

manny has not said anyone is wrong never mind “both sides” and their point is a fair one. Personally given an industrial dispute I am heavily baised towards beliving the union is more likely to be in the right that the employer. In this case however the employer is local government who are essentially out of money due to the cuts imposed on them by austerity over the past 15 years. Further than that I dont know the details so I cant say if these strikes are justified or not, but asking who is in the right is not heresy that must be cleansed from discourse.

Ok, given how this is a bot reposting everything posted to HN, how do you suppose complaining here is going to change anything?

Curate your own feed, if you dont want reposts from HN then dont subscribe to a comm that does that.