Lehmuusa

This is the reason I always write "the Russia", never just "Russia". It's an artificial construct and if you read its history, it's unclear where it really begins or ends. A very weird thing that it even has some thing such as a capital!

...of its own choice.

why you elected to make a statement that seemed to limit itself to a binary of fascist/"tankies”.

Because that is the subject we are talking about. We are talking about to what extent tankies are similar to fascists.

Also, I do not think temporarily holding a percent of an ethnicity in an internment camp is enough to call something a genocide.

Temporarily, not. But anything that forces people to have to lose their national or thnic identity is genocide. We are not talking about any temporary internment camps here. (I'm not sure if temporary internment camps based on ethnicity have ever even existed...)

to provide relevant comparison of similar examples that were not fascist nor “tankies”.

If they do not support using a country's military against its own population nor are fascists, how are they relevant to this discussion that is intentionally limited to those two groups?

First of all…..how is the US not a democratic country?

Uh... Read the news maybe? WTF kind of question is this? How is it a democratic country?

Just off the top of my head Canada has a brutal history of suppressing their native inhabitants that endures to the modern age. Both france and the UK also had interment camps during ww2.

No idea of what's been going on in Canada. POW camps don't really count. Nor any camps where the goal is not the removal of an ethnicity or nationality from from a region.
The question about Israel's democracy is an interesting one that I need to ponded more!

I believe at the point they have already become tankies, no good goal exists anymore. They only seem to work to defend what they have already achieved. And that is oppression.

I'm not sure socialism or communism can ever be made to work, but at least Marx and Lenin made it much more difficult to ever get there by demandinfmg we do the opposite of the goals of communism in order to get communism. People who are okay with cleansings and repression will cleanse and repress.

You don't really go through the chore of reading Capital without really wanting to change the society for better. And because Marx, the death of communism, preferred violence and is convincing with his way of argumentation (at least if you're a bit stupid), those who read the book until the end, end up forfeiting all good goals and will go for repression.

Tankies are people who used to want good things and fairness. And then they converted from that into tankies.

A strong leader will always lead you into a Russia. Into a quagmire.

You could also compare it to things “democratic” countries have done. America for one has had decades of segregation based on ethnicity and has had concentration camps for ethnic minorities, not to mention a genocide against indigenous peoples.

Yes, you can. Generally, any country where an ideology goes over individuals' well-being tends to do this shit. China does, USA does as well. Not terribly surprising.

1/6 on camps is a LOT. It does fulfill the definition of genocide.

What makes you think that USA is relevant here? I am not from USA. USA is not a part of China, nor the other way around.

This is not my attempt of a whataboutism, just trying to illiustrate that unjustifiable national policy is not unique to socialist or democratic capitalist governments.

Show me a democratic country where this happens. You're giving me China and USA. And there's also the Russia. But is there actually a democratic country where people are handled they way countries such as USA and China do?

I wouldn't say you can translate razjebat' as to destroy. A better translation would be fucked up or something like that. It doesn't mean that everything got destroyed. It means that a lot of explosions happened in various places of the city's downtown.

Lobnja is a northen suburb of Moscow. I wonder if that's where Russian AD missiles had hit civilian houses?

I completely agree.

And now, when writing this... Argh. Uyghurs. You absolutely cannot compare it to what Nazis did, but if you compare it to what other fascist countries died then yes, that's quite some consequence.

I still would not write an equal sign between fascists and tankies, though.

In the end, tankie is a type of a socialist, and one becomes socialist through a will to do good. Being a tankie is some EXTREMELY fucking ill-advised way to do good, because the result is indeed very very bad. But you don't really become a fascist in order to do good. You become a fascist because you think you are worth more than others.

I think being a tankie is about the goal being more important than the means – all the way to an extent where the means completely obliterate the goal. And being a fascist is about deciding that being limitlessly selfish is okay. One is at least trying to have a good goal. The other one is just... "Everything for ME and MY TRIBE, all others should DIE!" But in the end, what's being done to Uyghurs is just horror. Being thrown into a concentration camp and being subjected to various inhumane experiments is already on a very high level of evil to have to experience.

What's the thing on the upper right corner of the key with number 3? Could it be the apostrophe? Try AltGr+3 and see what happens. Or maybe it's Meta+3? Meta is the key between left Ctrl and left Alt. You can also try AltGr+Shift+3.

Where does it not?!

And then you don't have dead keys.

You press `, then you press e. You get è without needing a specific key for that. The standard Finnish keyboard can do at least the following: ãẽĩõũṏñṽēūȳīōāḡȫǟǖŵêŷûîôâŝĝĥĵẑĉẇėṙṫẏıȯṗȧṡḋḟġḣȷŀżẋċḃṅṁẉẹṛṭỵụịọạṣḍ̣ḥḳḷẓ̣ṿḅṇṃțșȩŗţşḑģḩķļçņẃéŕýúíóṕáśǵj́ḱĺźćǘńḿẁèỳùìòàǜǹm̀ěřťǔǐǒǎšďǧȟǰǩľžčǚň

If I disable deadkeys, I lose all those characters. Many people on this planet have names that require those, and it's a bit stupid not having them. Pressing space every now and then is not that much of work :)

Oh, and indeed: On the Finnish keyboard ~ is a deadkey. You get it by pressing the "^~ key together with AltGr, then pressing Space.