Warl0k3

You should really think about how a fairly straightforward reframing of your actions reads, even to you, like an intentionally negative characterization (or even an attack). If thats how it looks to you, imagine how it must look to other people.

Sure, but it does speak to that user's definition, which is what they were talking about. And honestly, their definition is pretty much the standard. 'A pejorative term for supporters of authoritarian regimes, particularly communist ones' is the definition in some form across every site I've turned up in the thirty seconds I spent on this. It's what everyone else in this thread appears to be using. Seems like its pretty agreed on.

Ah yes, the "no u" gambit. Classic, deadly, refined. The most elegant of rebuttals. A refuge for only the sharpest of wits.

Anyways, do you mean different views like say, someone holding different (and by your own admission, quite common) opinions about how your conduct reflects on your character...?

Uh... Yeah, it does. It literally defines the meaning and the context in which the term is used. Thats... how language works. Fundementally.

Have you stopped to consider that maybe you're just an asshole?

No, seriously, you're whining about being called a tankie when... like dude, you're a tankie. Half your comments are just bringing up how EU/UK support for Ukraine's defense is a frivolous waste or similar. I doubt you think of yourself like this but to an outside observer you're deeply toxic.

Shoo! Don't make me get the broom!

Is this what passes for bait these days? Shoo, go on, git. Back to your imageboard.

You dare speak the name of the accursed one??

I can't decide if that's higher or lower than I expected.

Pretty much this. How many artists did you follow on, say, reddit? There were so few on there, and those that were there mainly linked to alternate social media and just used reddit to get engagement. Lemmy is probably the most approachable activitypub interface (we all remember trying to find the damn content on mastadon/bluesky...) and it's just not big or established enough to be worth trusting. Hopefully that will start changing soon as more people hop over from the myriad other sites, we seem to be past the critical point for new users, but it just takes time.

If it converts a single R voter, it'll have a bigger positive impact on the election than either of us will.

You've a winning argument, to be sure! Not sure where I quantified how much I think hollywood influences culture but okay.

FWIW, obviously popular media both is influential and responds to culture. "Hollywood" really shouldn't be treated as a singular entity if we're trying for a semblance of legitimacy. This is really quickly going to fall into a discussion of the role of the audience and how that's changed in the digital era (vs. when Aristotle first brought it up...), and neither of us care enough to suffer through thay. Suffice to say it's not cut and dry, and beyond that I dont know any better than you do what specific impact they have (and neither do they).