It doesn’t affect it one way or the other. What does is their continuing operations in Russia, who started and is continuing the war.

You mean VRCUUC isn’t a homegrown American brand?

Pepsi makes the dogs gay.

Because you’re going by feelings and not actual definitions. Which is fine when speaking colloquially, but if you want to take country-level actions, you better have some law to base that on.

What about:

• the England
• the Germany
• the France
• the Sweden
• the Russia
• the Poland

Normal country names don’t begin with “the”

“The United States of America” makes grammatical sense. “The Ukraine” or any of the above doesn’t .

It’s actually a really interesting but of english.

We include ‘the’ when the type of government or state is mentioned which is why it is just China but it’s the people’s Republic of china or in the case of a region, like the Cotswolds.

Ukraine was referred to as the Ukraine during the soviet Union as it was a region of a greater country. Therefore using the Ukraine basically diminishes Ukraine to a territory of another country which is sorta what they’re fighting not to be.

The name of Ukraine is Ukraine. “The Ukraine” was a USSR administrative district. The name of The United States is The United States

Maybe give them the benefit of the doubt, not everyone is from the USA or obsessed by it here, and good answers can teach people efficiently, I’m pretty sure you learned things this way yourself.

Asking the question promotes discussion.

Which is exactly what Lemmy needs to show to newcomers it’s not a barren wasteland of nothing.

I almost keeled over laughing the first time I saw that.

Edit: Wish there was one called Wham Bam Tank You Ma’am

Every time I see that name I have to pause and acknowledge that holy crap somebody actually did that.

It’s like a much more mundane version of “holy crap that guy was really the president of the US, and for a while and everything!

No, it’s always tasted like watered down Pepsi.

They are easily riled and while I doubt there is intentional coordination in place, due to their fervour, they can come across like a brigade. If you speak up against them - cue the hexbears flocking to this comment no doubt - they can get quite vicious, as my comment history will witness.

Hexbear’s been isolated for a while, and their site developed a culture of trashing on people who “debate” in bad faith, as well as some other stuff like PPB which is weird especially for outsiders.

If you’re browsing internal Hexbear posts, you’ll find lots of posts under irony which make them perhaps difficult to appreciate. I’d recommend visiting Lemmygrad first.

One might say they’re grinding the term into uselessness.

Oh come on, we all know you mean communists. Why don’t you just say commies?

It’s someone who claims to be liberal

😂 😂 😂

It’s original definition doesn’t include liberals. I consider myself relatively left. I’ve had people ridicule some of my viewpoints for being too liberal (I guess too center for them). Those people were tankies, but they weren’t tankies because they’re more left than me. It’s because they consider themselves to be very left leaning while still praising authoritative regimes and being apologists for them. That’s the tank part. They’re alright with military dictatorships of the past and even consider them to have been successful. They also rarely are able to admit the flaws of those regimes (including the genocides), and even if they do, there’s a “reason” for it (X might have been bad and did this, but at the same time, it also did Y which was somewhat good)

This is the problem with “tankie”, nobody can actually define it.

You, attempting to refute that it’s “woke” but for liberals, proved that it is “woke” for liberals.