they don’t sell your data. advertisers just pick out the target audience and meta places the ads for them. This is the way google and meta have been doing ads for a while. Actually selling your data is illegal.

They still use your data to push ads so it’s a violation of privacy. Just wanna get the facts straight.

Unless there’s been some leak recently I’m unaware of?

LOOK OUT FOR THE TUNNEL AAAHHHH

If China is a socialist state worth supporting then I’m a donkey with a laser dick :P But I’m more anarchistically inclined so different perspective.

I see your point though. What I’m saying is not that communist = tankie, on the contrary. I’m saying that tankies claim to be communists but spend all day parroting their favorite Russian or Chinese state propaganda because they believe everything else is clearly controlled by Obamna™ himself. They rarely actually talk about communism, they just roam Lemmy all day calling everybody who disagrees with them a liberal :D

nowadays tankie just means someone who shills for china/russia with a communist background

Exactly!

In my experience tankies are just people for whom being communist or leftist boils down to “west bad” and therefore everything else must be good. I know, it doesn’t make sense.

Empire is empire.

Given the amount of tankies running around on Lemmy, the “liberal” in question is likely an anticapitalist, anarchist, socialist, radical leftist, and the “comrade” is just an authoritarian who wishes they were born in time to lick Stalin’s boots and calls everybody who doesn’t deepthroat Putin’s hairy balls for breakfast a liberal.

But that’s just how it feels in this context. In general, yes, communism > capitalist liberalism.