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I'm thoroughly convinced the entire tankie triad is a psyop to turn people off from socialism.
Defederation is of the utmost importance!
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that's the thing with complex diverse and ever-growing systems that are specializing towards their own salient eco-niche. which just means... it's complex, and large populations get bubbles of dumb people using the words and thoughts of the bigger group for their own local opportunism.
i think most groups suck at identifying and policing such spinoffs. i have witnessed many groups actively try, but ultimately when society calls them X/Y for identifying with a group, they will leave the group to not be associated, which clears out all of the people who were policing those people out of the group.
one of my common topics is how the spinoffs blindly lash out at [enemy tribe] and how that is used to re-define the original group, leading to some victims justifying blind attacks in the other direction. a self-fuelling reverberating snowball of dumb angry reactions that seem weirdly good at preventing solidarity and co-construction.
i absolutely agree with you that it's an issue, and a universal one. possibly the most important issue. we need the building of solidarity and co-constructed understanding of the world that doesn't fall for blind divisive traps.