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It’s a coward who needs an echo chamber to find support for their perspectives.
Is it pride month already?
it’s so fucking true
Anytime they pull you into an argument, suddenly 5 more show up to try and overwhelm you. There’s no way it isn’t a deliberate tactic.
Plot twist. All 5 are the same guy using multiple alt accounts.
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Maybe Voyager?
Nah Voyager doesn’t keep the line going past the comment
Are anti-genocide “tankies” really the biggest threat to democracy right now?
Fascists and Nazis are in the white house destroying the US. They are also on the verge of taking over and destroying Europe.
Everyone to the left of fascism needs to unite together to stop the neo-Nazis before it is too late. If the Nazis are allowed to start ww3 then nukes will end us all.
Yeah right now, I don’t care about tankies all that much. Are they annoying at times? Fuck yes. Are they a threat to my life? Fuck no.
I don’t mind moderating content online, but its fucking weird people are more pressed about Tankies online, spending more time about them than Trump. At least memes can maybe sway someone about the terminally online, it doesn’t stop Trump when someone shares a meme.
I guess so, but they seem a bit more focused on liberals than conservatives.
What should I say to get the stripes?
Tankies don’t actually care about theory.
i mean, you guys are constantly making entire threads about how you hate either our moderation rules, or our opinions…
Yeah, I think people constantly making those posts are a bit annoying, like they’re just trying to stir shit up, but a lot of users on grad, hex and ml will very agressively defend themselves under these threads, hence the meme.
edit: yet again downvoted by .ml for agreeing with them.
…what makes the downvotes come from .ml?
If you paste a link to a lemmy post into friendica, it lets you see the votes.
Ok, what’s a tankie?
Half a century ago it meant people who supported the soviet union using tanks to put down a cia backed coup in Hungary.
Modern times in the west it means anyone left of AOC.
I would never call a leftist a “tankie” because they are a leftist. People who do that are idiots. The important part of the word is the support of authoritarian regimes.
Which is pretty weird nowadays because neither Russia, China nor North Korea are even communist/leftist anymore.
China and the DPRK are still Socialist, though different forms. China has a Socialist Market Economy, the DPRK is closer to the Soviet model. Russia is no longer Socialist, that is correct, but is occasionally seen as a temporary ally as they seek to destabilize US Hegemony, a goal they seek for profit and Leftists seek so that Socialism has a better chance worldwide.
If you define leftism as a pure economy model, then you could call right-wing authoritarian countries with state-controlled economies “socialist” which makes no sense.
I don’t know what you mean by a “pure economy model” or how a fully publicly owned economy would be right wing, unless it’s a different form of ownership like Monarchism.
Or, hear me out, it actually means people who support authoritarian communism. Especially focussed on Stalin and Mao.
It’s actually especially focused on Khrushchev, who was the one who sent tanks into Hungary which is where the term originates. It’s notable that it focuses on him rather than Stalin, because the real point of the term was to guard against people who might be more sympathetic towards the USSR after “destalinization.” The literal meaning may be, “people who support socialist countries no matter what they do,” but the actual meaning has always been more like, “people who support anything any socialist country has ever done.”
Mao was right about landlords. If nothing else. He was right about landlords.
Do you know who else was right about landlords? A shit ton of people that didn’t get millions of their own citizens killed through incompetence and mismanagement.
Everyone who ever killed one.
Rare Pol Pot W
Whoa, watch out, you might hit someone with that goalpost, swinging it around like that
Maybe they were all commenting on your spelling of “criticising”
meh, its one of 10-15 words I use often, but can’t spell properly for shit.
If only there was some kind of spelling check.
It doesn’t work for some reason:
Works on my secret alt on another instance though.
Only an oqho wdors ewql can call someone an oqho wdors ewql.
If you make them look bad they delete the thread. It’s happened to me twice. I consider it a win, but it is sad that others won’t see how wacky they are.
They even downvote you if you agree with them.
serious question, is there any chance a large portion of these users are acting in bad faith and don’t actually believe these things because the now threads i see, the more that seems to be the case
I don’t understand the constant liberal need to assume everyone who disagrees with you is acting in bad faith. Not everyone believes the same things as you. If you like, I can explain why I believe the things I do and what works or life experiences led me to those conclusions.
The platform you’re using was designed by Marxist-Leninists, it shouldn’t be surprising to find Marxist-Leninists on here.
I try to discuss stuff with you all in good faith, but its really hard to ngl.
Edit to add: Why do you assume everyone arguing with you is a liberal?
Why do you assume everyone arguing with you is a liberal?
In regards to the person I was originally replying to here, because this is a tendency that I notice especially among liberals, and which seems to track with their idealist ideology. They view their position as being “obvious,” “objective” and “rational,” and therefore expect everyone to agree with them unless there is some sort of irregular interference in the “marketplace of ideas,” like foreign subversion. Furthermore, since liberalism is the dominant ideology of the present world, it is easier for people to believe that it is the only thing any reasonable person would believe.
Leftism is comparatively fringe, and also has many different forms of analysis that account for people believing different things. Any leftist should be aware that people who have different material conditions and material interests are likely to arrive at different sets of beliefs. It is difficult to imagine a leftist thinking that anyone who disagrees with them must be disguising their beliefs and motivations, they would have to be paranoid and suspicious of virtually everyone they ever encounter in life. It makes no sense. Furthermore, there are many different leftist ideologies so even if a leftist did expect everyone to be a leftist, it raises the question of, “which tendency?” A Trotskyist and a Maoist will have a substantial number of disagreements with each other.
As for the others, well, because they say lib things and take offense when I talk negatively about liberals. I’m sure some of them style themselves as “anarchists” while supporting liberals and acting and thinking like liberals. Anarchism has some very cool aesthetics, after all.
Perhaps, if they start respecting our labels and bothering to understand what the difference is between a Marxist-Lenininst and a Maoist instead of just blanket labelling everyone to the left of Bernie as a “tankie,” then I’ll consider respecting the difference between self-identified liberals vs anarcho-NATOists instead of labelling them all liberals. But then, if they bothered to learn or understand the things my side actually believes rather than just making shit up about us whole cloth and dismissing us when we try to actually explain our positions, they’d hardly be liberals, would they?
“liberalism” is a confusing word with 3 different meanings: “economic liberalism”, “classical/conservative liberalism” or “social liberalism”.
Seeking “freedom” does not mean much without specifying what kind of freedom you seek and in which area.
In the USA, “liberal” is almost synonym with “leftist” since it’s always understood as “social liberalism” which actually relies on a strong government to defend social freedom.
This is an international forum, not an American one.
The reason “liberal” is synonymous with “leftist” in the US is that the left has retreated so ridiculously far. Left anticommunism has been a dismal failure that’s played into the right’s hands. People thought that if they just demonstrated their anticommunist credentials that people would stop accusing them of being “reds” or “pinkos,” but it absolutely has not worked and only emboldened the right to the point that even “liberal” became an accusation, a dirty word, while at the same time hurting and dividing the left.
I don’t accept that, and neither do people outside of the US. A liberal is a supporter of capitalism, liberals are, by definition, right wing.
That would be the preferable result rather than just getting banned or the comment/post deleted.
I think OP is upset that .ml accounts aren’t being banned or deleted.
But it’s all bait, regardless. Most liberals only know the word “Tankie” to mean “People who down voted me on Reddit and don’t want to glass Beijing”.
You’d be hard pressed to get anyone’s actual politics on the Hungarian Revolt of 1956 that goes farther than “Soviet Tanks Are Bad”.
Nah, it’s people who defend Russia mostly.
Real Red Scare Hours, who up?
