Justas🇱🇹

Everybody on that list (except the journalist) should resign for not noticing, lol.

There is a logic to the design: most apps are designed to be used for as long as possible instead of getting what you want done.

The simple things you see are all complicated

Also, change input language.

And Num Lock.

Caps Lock on decryption prompt on Linux (The system will not warn you about that one)

Press the Insert key on people’s keyboards at random times of the day.

It’s all fun and games until the database gets leaked and guards start getting offers to off a particular client.

I think they got divorced because they were shit people. Not vice versa.

WWII might be a distant memory for Americans, but most of Europeans have been to historical sites of Jewish genocide.

What kind of crazy person doesn’t start a jigsaw puzzle with the edge pieces?

My mother-in-law literally gave us 20 eggs from a local farm for free yesterday.

Lithuanian.

I speak Lithuanian, English, some Swedish and traces of Russian.

The lands and the people around me were heavily scarred by both.

Both fascism and marxism emerge from an assumed conflict within the system: fascism from a conflict between nations and marxism from a conflict between classes.

A failing economy, capitalist or otherwise, is just used as a tool for these ideologies to come into power.

Saying that a movement that aims to change the social order so severely is conservative is also a bit silly.

Both ideologies thrive during periods of crisis, and when one emerges, another might appear nearby. In that case, they will act like one opposes another but the act of opposition to an ideology also reinforces it.

We have reached the point of the discussion where it becomes a discussion in semantics: What is fascism?

The problem with political philosophy is that actual politicians are often very ignorant of it. They just do whatever keeps them in power or increases the amount of power they wield.

USSR gave up on proper Marxism relatively early. They could have made a fascist turn with someone like Beria in charge.

USSR already had a personality cult in Lenin, militarism, control of media, suppression of dissent, economic control and collectivism.

The only thing that USSR lacked to be considered a fascist regime was nationalism (although I would argue that their attempts to create a homo sovieticus should count) and private industry (maybe if a fascist regime lasted for long enough they would nationalise industry too).

Tbh, I came into this discussion to show how right wing and left wing do not have a useful definition to discuss real world policies. I don’t think that classifying ideologies as left or right wing matters to the people suffering under them.

So, Stalin was both far left and far right at the same time?

How is purging minorities and forcefully relocating them in order to kill some of them and assimilate the rest a far right policy and not a fascist policy?

What if I told you that Stalin actively pursued several fascist policies?

A Lutheran book of Lithurgy written in Lithuanian and printed in Tilsit (Now Sovetsk, Kaliningrad) in 1914.

What did you just say about me?! How dare you hurt my feelings like that, I thought we were friends!?