See, in that moment I would’ve pulled out my unfinished thesis about climate cycle influences on social and technological advances across pre-Columbian civilizations.

I mean, you never know, you know?

I don’t want to be a leftist anymore

pick a new name

You know, I think that covers it.

Hasan continues to be an incredible litmus test. His existence has this uncanny ability to get anti-leftists and wreckers to out themselves.

Like, the people obsessing about Hasan specifically kinda just sound like Ethan Klein at this point.

So it was you he finally listened to? Huh. How about that.

Eat? Autism.

Forget to eat? Also autism.

More classically:

A good rule for Tuesday.

https://fedihosting.foundation/about-us/

Patrick is the CFO listed here: https://fedihosting.foundation/fhf-team/

Edit: https://sh.itjust.works/post/63914623

Their (locked for comments) public response.

Corpo ?(turd|slut|tech)

These keywords are hilarious.

Yeah you’d be overthinking it since the dev wasn’t doing much themselves. The blacklist was not put together coherently and appears to be mostly built by emotion, especially in light of the dev’s “I’m not sorry at all” response.

The dev is a part of a corporate structure they formed where they’re named CFO. They are, in their mind, Fediverse C-suite, and they act accordingly.

6. People who (intentionally?) take others out of context just to attack them

Hah. Not with that list they’ve curated. Not in the slightest.

high horse

WYKYK.

Also the darkest kid and the most ginger kid together on the center left are more, uh, Anglicized in the AI version.

I’m just struggling to link Brian from Family Guy to Mamdani or SocDems in this.

I reply from the sea, keeping the streak alive. Your move.

It’s about what happened with leadership of fascist imperialist movements. Do you know about Puyi? (Or Nuremberg?)

But if you want to build that connection though, of all things, that’d be your effort. That’s on you.

So this often comes up and there’s a lot of opinions. I often reference the Nuremberg Trials as an example of how a society expresses the consequences of not changing behavior and ideology. You know, if the failure of their war, and the craven suicide of their fuhrer hadn’t already.

But, probably the best example is Pu-Yi and how the CCP handled the Chinese emperor that collaborated with the Japanese.

In short: education and work. Teach them the right way and make them work a job that satisfies the material conditions of a common citizen.

I wouldn’t really be able to know what they’re on about without interacting with them, quite frankly. But I can’t say I really approve of the worship of political figures, historical or not.

I try to approach historical figures as a part of the context in which they existed. It does sound like this person was into theory, so I’d wager their interest in Stalin was more academic than a celebration of the ills that occurred in 20th century Eurasia. But if this person was advocating for Lysenkoism or someshit then you’ve got a grade A idiot.

Like, I find Stalin to be fascinating and the balance of power that he operated both inside and outside the USSR to be remarkable. He can be a very symbolic figure for a kind of struggle against overwhelming odds, which resonates at least on some level with a lot of people, Marxist or not. People get really into things like mob bosses and Scarface so I would try to slate someone’s fandom of Stalin against that, too.

Also, if American, we go over eight decades of rabid anti-communism so sometimes people throw up things like hammers and sickles just as a fuck-you to (Neo)McCarthyism.

It’s more that some people don’t actively condemn him to the satisfaction of others.

The USSR under Stalin defeated Nazi Germany. Idle denunciation of Stalin in 2026 is the classic and most trusted pivot for (crypto)fascists to focus on when cornered or feeling insecure.

That’s the primary scenario that people are accused of ‘defending Stalin’. There’s always a nazi all too willing to spearhead this conversation, 70 years on after his death. Usually can’t even bring up Khrushchev and De-Stalinization usually since it’s not focusing on Stalin enough.