• 601error@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        This is a bit tongue-in-cheek, but kbin generally requires its users to be either unaware it is written in PHP or OK with using something written in PHP. That has to exert some selective pressure.

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                1 year ago

                Why not both? They make fun of the technical knowledge of a userbase, you respond by insulting them directly for the non-technical ideology held by someone twice removed (while, coincidentally, providing an example for their point).

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                  1 year ago

                  I even explicitly called out my statement as tongue-in-cheek, so it’s not to be taken 100% seriously. And full disclosure: I myself am not a PHP developer, but much worse: a PowerShell developer, among other languages.

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                    1 year ago

                    Indeed.

                    a PowerShell developer

                    😱 The horr… wait, are we talking Windows Power’sHell, or PowerShell on Linux? (I don’t know which one’s worse, just making conversation 😅)

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                1 year ago

                Whatever meaning it had originally is gone and it’s basically just a way to discredit anyone vaguely on the left you don’t like.

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                1 year ago

                I have no clue where the word comes from, but my understanding is that it’s a hyper-authoritarian communist. Think Stalin or Mao Zedong. The kind of person who’s not afraid to start a genocide or a famine if it means the people dying of starvation are capitalists. You’ll usually see them defending or denying the crimes of the people I listed earlier plus others. Pol Pot is a good example.

                I too have been called a tankie on here which is very strange considering I’m a bit less of a leftist than the majority on here.