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The tankie takeover of dbzer0 continues
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Nah, with terminally online cosplayers, the result is almost always "Mask off, actually was aligned with tankies all along" rather than "Principled opposition getting betrayed after alliance of convenience". That's more of a real-world anarchist pitfall.
Tankies give them asspats and don't demand anything of them, while evil liberals and demsocs actually demand some small baseline of action. If one's interest in anarchism is more the sense of community than ideology, they pitch towards tankies hard. The reverse is rarer, despite tankies also being largely of the same mentality, because anarchism is less inherently tribalistic than ML insanity about orthodoxy and revisionism, making it less appealing to a tribalist mindset already immersed in such concepts.
On the other hand, I've known a number of tankies through the years who pitched hard-right once they found community with online right-wingers.
That doesn't surprise me at all. Authoritarian-minded narcissists don't care about ideological consistency, ethical reasoning, or contextual realism. They just care about the authoritarian grift that feeds their insatiable egos.
They call the "horseshoe politics" argument "both-sides-ism" when it's actually the opposite. "Both sides are bad" is an attempt to equate left-wing with right-wing politics to justify doomerism, complacency, and cynical accelerationism while claiming some sort of moral exceptionism (my ends justify my means because both sides are bad).
"Horseshoe politics" on the other hand calls out ideological and methodological extremism on both sides. Its main claim is that authoritarianism is bad, regardless of which side of the political spectrum it falls on.
It also comes as no surprise that these same types of "leftists" never call out trump, maga, and the actual fascists. No, they focus all their ire on corporate dems (who are deserving of critique within their own contexts, of course, but not to the exclusion of far-right conservatism), calling them "liberal fascists," whatever the fuck that is, and watering down the term "fascist" so that we all sound like loonies whenever we call out actual fascism (such as maga/trumpism).
Yeah, I had to block so many 'anarchist' meme communities that were nothing but hating dems
For real; I posted a picture (not even a meme but a screenshot of a post I thought made a good point) in an ongoing thread regarding certain viabilities of anarchism and was the only one who got my comment deleted with just a line about bringing up strawmen and fallacies, apparently (it was more in depth with particular examples, compared to the other comments, so maybe it struck a nerve). Not even the tankie comms have deleted my comments over just simply countering me or just down voting.
Felt more like trying to maintain a social club, than anything.