Consistently applying that logic would put nearly all the Allies on the Axis side
Since you've linked to my post, maybe you lemmitors can help answer one of the questions posed in it:
Can I get a quick rundown on what Maduro has done to be labelled as a "brutal dictator" by the liberal media?
You're just putting words in my mouth
Hey comrade,
Tens of millions of gay people can and do exist in both countries despite the lagging recognition of rights at the federal level—much like the United States in the 2000s in which I grew up—because they are diverse places with attitudes that vary widely depending on location and subculture. The struggle for legal recognition is to be fought and won by the queer people who live there and to whom we lend our solidarity.
In particular, Russia's reactionary cultural attitudes were inflamed by its capitalist restoration in the 1990s, and Putin's homophobia is frequently criticized by progressive anti-imperialists. Although many who inhabit this community have a false notion otherwise, we're not prone to black-and-white thinking (such as labeling countries "shitholes").
It is. He/we don't support your politics, but we support your right to congregate and use the software.
So you don't think taking away someone's bank account for their comments counts as suppressing free speech? Do you even read what you type?
Censorship? Like when the authoritarian Western regimes and corporations ban all Russian and Chinese journalism?
“bUt ThAt’S dIsInfOrMaTiOn!”
And that’s exactly what they say of American news media propaganda!
Cowbee wasn't saying that it's bad to make your own space, per se; he was saying that communities of like-minded people are naturally going to develop on the Fediverse because of its decentralized nature. No Hexbear would deny that we created the site for ourselves.
I think Petterson's succinct definition is one of the best ones I've encountered, but the one in that study isn't too bad—it's certainly better than Wikipedia's. I take issue with just two of the terms:
Stalinist is just a pejorative for Marxist-Leninist, and authoritarianism is a practically useless word that's based purely on one's ideology.
All states are authoritarian because they have monopolies on the use of violence. Liberals don't view the routine weaponization of the bourgeois state against poor people as authoritarianism, but will instantly decry the reverse as such. Thus, a billionaire landlord evicting a single mother isn't characterized as authoritarian, but Maoists giving landlords the boot is. Germany seizing the bank accounts of critics of Israel (as happened recently) isn't labeled authoritarian, but the Stasi doing the same to corrupt capitalists in East Germany was.
Although there is not really a concrete definition, recent work by Petterson [87] provides a succinct description of tankies:
Tankies regard past and current socialist systems as legitimate attempts at creating communism, and thus have not distanced themselves from Stalin, China etc.