I spent so much time in academia. A lot of us are trained to make objective and impersonal analysis (such as avoiding the use of personal pronouns “I”, “we”, “us” etc.), which I did not realise before sounds dispassionate and cold to laymen. Someone asked me if I’m a bot because apparently I sounded like an anime character. A couple of times, I get into arguments because normal folks would accuse me of “yOu aRe mAkInG ExCuSeS tO TyRaNtS!!” for making a realpolitik analysis of a situation (/r/geopolitics in Reddit is heavily derided for this by average Redditors).

Academically trained folks are ingrained to be conscious of bias and rather encouraged to be more descriptive with the analysis, and less with prescriptive. Otherwise we’d get accused of bias. But when academics do voice out their opinions based on evidence and careful study, they’d be accused of bias. I probably don’t need to elaborate how often educational institutions are accused of being left or liberal. News flash: academics do not come in with inherent bias towards left/liberal thinking, it’s just that their study led them to be more left leaning. Wait until I tell people I am an advocate for a world government by giving UN more power. I might be accused as a globalist bot.

Coloured ink is expensive until much recently. Newspapers in richer countries have only gradually started to printed more in colour from late 1980s onwards. But in poorer countries, only the more serious newspapers who charges higher for their papers, could afford to print in colour, while the tabloids printed in black and white until the 2000s.

That’s why the complaint that “they intentionally print and post pictures in black and white, even though colour is available long ago, is so that people would think the events are old and feel detached” is silly and a first world problem for me. Printing in black and white was simply cheaper and also technically easier than printing in colour. Not to mention most photographers before the 1980s feel that taking photos in black and white is far classier and superior, in their minds.

Could be bit of both. Sweden has always been more right wing than their Scandinavian brethren. Their far right was strong during World War 2, and they have a far right in a coalition government at the moment. But on the one hand, Sweden allowed too many immigrants who share the same attitude as their own far right.

Two things can both be true at the same time.

Complaining on why black and white photos still being a thing in the 1980s and 90s is such a first world problem.

I wasn’t ready for this level of quantum level analysis of Jurassic Park.

I’M JUST HERE FOR THE DINOSAURS!!

That’s an interesting spin I have ever seen of whitewashing crimes of communist regimes. You’re definitely a tankie.

Doesn’t matter if your eyes are ripped, if you have no game.

I just go for the easy ones. I don’t bother with getting 100% achievements that needs to get the harder ones.

I never cheat online multiplayer. I like to be challenged and cheating ruins it.

I hate that modding is considered cheating by some games when all I want is quality of life improvement. Divinity 2 does this by disabling achievements if you installed any mods but thankfully there is another mod that re-enables achievements.

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I should add, those who defend China and USSR as if they can’t do anything wrong are DEFINITELY tankies.

Not so much as ragebait but unpopular opinion. I think most Lemmy users are highly paid middle class, tech workers who are out of touch with the genuine grievances and feelings of the working class, whose previous manufacturing jobs were outsourced and left with no alternative. They are then left to compete with just as poor immigrants for artificially-induced resource scarcity. And then Lemmings call them ignorant redneck hillbillies without listening to their lived experience. Sure, many former manufacturing blue collar workers could re-skill, but it is easier said than done, since most people find it hard to re-adjust and prefer to stick with their trade.

Now that there is huge lay off of tech workers the past year in preference to cheap immigrant labour, and cost-free AI, many Lemmy users are starting to realise and feel the experience of working class who had been left by globalisation.

I am increasingly becoming socialist. At some point we will all need UBI.

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Anyone under 50 certainly is a young politician for me.

Does the person deny the human rights violation of USSR and China? Then they’re tankies. Simple as that.

The stupid 2FA-ception is the worst. You need 2FA app to use an app that requires you to register with an email and then asks you to use another 2FA app. Thankfully, I am using a FOSS 2FA app that got rid of the complications.

The “lawful neutral” mindset that you mentioned is about self-preservation. It’s about keeping your head down and not making a ruckus, or else it’s your head that will be on sight. But some people inherently believe in order, and prefer the stability it brings for not questioning the authority.

My mom kinda has this mindset. She’s tends to follow rules by the book with little to no questions asked. She’d probably turn further right if it weren’t for my dad tempering her.

I don’t see much difference between here and Reddit tbh. The major difference,however, is the in-fighting amongst the instances here, namely the tankie instances such as .ml and hexbear versus the rest of the fediverse.

Never expect conservatives to be self-aware. This is precisely the value they voted for.