It also has a certain other, rather more precisely defined, meaning.
The occupied territories in Ukraine are full of torture facilities. If the war ends with the Russia gaining Ukraine’s territory, then the torture campaign will not only increase in intensity in the currently occupied territories, but will be spread to all of Ukraine. Ukrainians have seen for four years what happens to Ukrainians under Russian rule. The current suffering pales in comparison to what they have ahead if they capitulate.
Ukrainians want to choose the path of least suffering. And that is to take the missiles. The Russia cannot kill 40 million Ukrainians with missiles, but they can kill 40 million Ukrainians if Ukraine capitulates.
If you start feeling that everyone is a crazy tankie, switch to an instance that has defederated from the Tankie Triad.
I’m terribly sorry to my spider friends. You see, I’m an ADHD creature and that means there aren’t really much of routines to learn. Must be frustrating for them!
Possible but unlikely.
The net result is positive all the same.
They are Mastodon users. There is an interoperability bug between PieFed and Mastodon that causes some Mastodon users’ names to be replaced with some internal Mastodon user number.
I know a person whose kid has ADHD and was constantly running carelessly into random directions, failing to immediately react to their mother shouting them to stop. There was so much spontaneous and uncontrolled running here and there that the only option seemed to be to constantly hold their hand.
Eventually the kid’s mother came to the conclusion that the kid will have more freedom if she’s kept on a leash instead of having to hold hands. The time they had to use the leash didn’t end up being many months, either. In the case of that family it was definitely a choice that increased the psychological well-being of the child and supported their development of motor skills.
You can never know what the reasons are, so go careful with judging!