PeriodicallyPedantic

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[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca -3 points 10 months ago

This was not a defense of the USA you braindead idiot. I did not offer "feeling threatened" as an excuse for the USAs behaviour. The USA is threatened by the mere existence of successful countries that are not hypercapitalist (although tbf the tool used in this case is usually a coup, rather than bombs).

Not all countries consider the same things to be threats.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca -4 points 10 months ago (10 children)

Ok there edgelord

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca -4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You can make that exact same argument about dropping bombs.

When countries are threatened and dropping bombs relieves that threat instead of increases it, then they do. It's just that right now violent escalation doesn't benefit China, so it stays in the realm of sabre rattling

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca -3 points 10 months ago (13 children)

Imagine writing that completely unironically.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, like I said, that doesn't sound healthy

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Dude, idk.

I was just like "you seem to be telling the dude that he isn't using tankie correctly, but that's not how language works"

And then you replied that I'm wrong, and seemed to be making an appeal that the negative connotations had to do with the invalidity of the definition.

Our wires are so crossed at this point that a random car in 1960 Spain just got spontaneously hotwired.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Yup.

You say that like it's mutually exclusive. Nobody gets to choose how other people use language. Definitions are whatever people agree that they are, even if you're not one of the people who agrees with it.
You can dislike that definition of tankie all you want, the fact that they used it in this way and that you understood it means that it was used correctly.

The evolution of language may hurt people, but denying the reality of evolving language hurts nobody but yourself. The etymology and history is good to know (and the meme relies on it), but the new definition is still a correct alternate definition.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca -1 points 10 months ago (5 children)

This is the reality of language.
Both definitions are now correct. The change isn't a fight you can win.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think a lot of people here aren't looking at this in the right way:

They don't have to accept accounts for student or let students interact. This can be an alternative system for disseminating announcements with optional mechanisms for feedback. All they need to do is federate and then any of their students subscribe.

I've been wishing that my my governments (at all levels) would do this so I can get notified of things like changes to bus schedules or closures of highways and shit.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

~~Anyone~~ anything else
TIFTFY

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