Its because most “leftists” are white liberals who learned about socialist theory through YouTube or Twitter. Lemmy is a very liberal site, but because it’s sitting next to social media platforms that literally suck up the ground water to promote fascism, liberals mistake it as something more. What socialists or anarchists there are on here also tend to be of the STEM variety that does not read theory and therefore is less equipped to deal with appropriated language.

Stalinism is when you extend capitalism.

Oh, that is what you meant. Tankie is when you criticise liberalism now.

Could you explain more clearly what you mean by this? I just scrolled through the thread quickly and only really saw correct criticism of Newsoms neoliberal policies and conservative rhetoric and liberals who don’t want to admit that these attributes are aligned with liberalism. Which ones are the tankies? Am I supposed to be the tankie? Is tankie when you criticize liberals now? Or is this a comment sorting kinda thing?

Fascist praises fascist, go figure.

Consumers are not the main driver of profit, speculative value is. Microsoft knows that Windows is guaranteed to be on the majority of PC’s, which means they can afford to implement hostile features that increase the speculative value on data collection and AI investment.