And all the communists in this thread arguing with you hate the regimes that have killed millions (including the ones that have embraced the term “communist” like the CCP and Stalin’s USSR) as much as you do.

Originally, a “tankie” was a Stalin apologist, but in more modern times, it’s come to mean just authoritarian communist. I don’t think it’s a self-applied term. More a derisive term used by anti-authoritarian leftists.

The anti-authoritarian communists tend to call themsleves anarchists, anarcho-communists, anarcho-syndicalists, left libertarians, etc. And they’d strongly tend not to have anything good to say about Stalin, Mao, or the CCP.

(There are right-wingers who call themselves “anarchists” or “anarcho-capitalists” or “voluntarists” or “minarchists” or “Libertarians” (note the capital “L”) or whatever, but they have pretty much nothing to do with the hard-left-wing anarchist movement that they appropriated the terms “anarchist” and “libertarian” from.)

Anti-authoritarian communism is a thing. I think mostly the issue folks here in this thread are taking with you is equating communism with authoritarianism. And I don’t think anyone in this thread is pro-China or defending censoring content critical of China. Quite the opposite in fact.

If your point is that they’re pro-CCP, you’ll probably get your point across better by calling them “tankies” than “communists.” I identify as a communist, but I’d be first in line to say “fuck tankies.”

I read that in Rick Sanchez’s voice.

Good call. I didn’t realize there were still places where the original works were still under copyright. But in retrospect, I should have thought of that possibility.

I suppose that makes Blood and Honey a pirate film, which is still good in my book. It’ll be interesting to see if Disney decides to bring any legal cases in the UK or anything.

Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey

I’m mostly just thrilled that Disney finally lost something to the public domain. (And, yes, I know it was acquired by Disney and not originally created by Disney.)

Studying law. I just suddenly developed this interest in my mid to late 30s and now I’m learning everything I can about it.

There is no limit to how dumb these conspiracy theories can get. It would not surprise me if Fox News said that the democrats sabotaged the submersible to prevent them from bringing back Hillary’s emails that had been hidden on the wreck of the Titanic.

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman’s Odyssey

That makes it sound like I live a much more minimalistic life than I do. But when I write code (and writing code is a big part of my life), I apply the fuck out of that quote.

I don’t trust Reddit any more. I made a comment elsewhere about why.

A quick story.

I play Dungeons and Dragons. Wizards of the Coast (WotC which owns D&D and is in turn owned by Hasbro) tried to pull some evil things with the license that covers a lot of D&D content and tehre was a huge backlash and boycott and WotC eventually (mostly) backed down.

I took part in the boycott and when WotC backed down, I reasoned that the boycott would be for naught if I didn’t end my boycott and “reward” WotC for (mostly) agreeing to play nice®. So I ended my boycott.

Just a few weeks later, WotC sent armed mercinaries (literally the Pinkertons) after one of their Magic The Gathering customers over a purchase mixup on the reseller’s part. No calling and nicely asking the customer to voluntarily help resolve what WotC saw as an issue. Just Pinkertons at the customer’s door one day.

I’ve now learned the lesson I should have already known ahead of the D&D licensing debacle. What Reddit is doing now shows their true nature. If folks end the boycott and go back to Reddit, that will only empower Reddit and its parent company Conde Nast to pull something just as bad or worse in the future. (Not that they won’t do something worse even if people don’t come back.) And when that happens, the Reddit users who came back to Reddit after this API pricing situation settled down will be tired and more reticent to engage in another boycott.

So my philosophy is “if it’s bad enough to warrant a temporary boycott, it’s bad enough to warrant a permanent boycott.”