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[-] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 18 points 8 months ago

Isn't lemmy.ml full of tankies?

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

More like strangulated by libs who need to move back to .world. Iunno how dessalines or nutomic tolerate some of these mfs.

[-] beanson@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 months ago

I made an account a long while ago when it was the only instance with any content but I'm just a lurker looking for memes and tech news. Feeling like I should change instance these days...

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

average sh.ithead. Fucking nazi instance.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

lemmygrad is full of full-on tankies, the type who would willingly send birthday greetings to comrade Stalin while imprisoned in a gulag, lemmy.ml once was a default instance and thus has random folks on it but is admin-wise run by tankies and generally seems to serve as the preferred instance for lemmygrad folks to have alts on. Stay away from political communities there e.g. their worldnews community is a silly place. Hexbear is hit and miss, not so much hardened tankies there but wokescolds and random lefties who don't quite realise who they associate with, why that kind of social dynamics is no good. Might have some inane takes, occasionally prone to dogpiling, but at least you can have a conversation with them.

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Using alt-right terminology should get you disqualified from any reasonable conversation.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee -1 points 8 months ago

What, the term "tankie"? A term coined within the Communist Party of Great Britain? The CPGP is alt-right, now?

Calling the term "alt-right" is just a quick way of telling me you're a tankie without telling me you're a tankie.

Oh. "wokescold" is another possibility but that's rather unlikely, while the right has appropriated "woke" I've never heard them use "wokescold" which is precisely used by people who know and understand the original meaning and simply want to call out certain problematic behaviours done in the name of, but not to the benefit of, wokeness.

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Don't fucking bullshit me, we both know that I was referring to wokescold. Tankie is a horrible fucking word but it way predates the alt-right.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee -3 points 8 months ago

I'll just quote Zena+Poppy on the term. You may not like it, you might prefer clinical analytical language such as "puritanical progressive" or whatever, but from the context I used it in (making direct reference to social dynamics) it should be obvious that I used it in that sense.

And, no, tankie is not a "horrible fucking word". It is precise and succinct, also, tankies hate it.

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

No it's not a matter of how "nice" it sounds, it's about the fact that it was created by nazis for a nazi agenda.

I have zero patience for people who side with fascism. Sorry for having basic standards of human decency.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

it was created by nazis for a nazi agenda.

Source on that? I'm serious. I did a bit of googling and do see that the likes of Ben Shapiro have been using it, but that's definitely not where I have it from, and you'll also see plenty of left-wing uses of it.

I have zero patience for people who side with fascism.

I referred you to a quite precise definition of what I mean by the term. Can you explain to me how criticising the things encompassed by that definition would put me "on the side of fascism"? Fascists have come up with plenty of terms leftists use all the time, an obvious example would be the word "fascist". Allegiance to fascism, I'd say, cannot be inferred merely by use of some shared vocabulary, you have to go deeper than that.


In any case, and I hope you see the irony, going nuclear over the use of such a term, to drill down on syntax instead of semantics, is not unlikely to fit the wokescold pattern of behaviour. Depends a bit on how you do it but overall I'd say it's likely you'd hit at least some of the checkboxes Zena+Poppy are giving.

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Nah I'm done. You're irredeemable. Go be a fascist somewhere else.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee -1 points 8 months ago

Indeed I'll stay an anarchist no matter how much tankies and/or wokescolds whine. Have a good day.

[-] Daz@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

If you mean communists that support capitalist states like China, then yes, unfortunately. Better than being around nothing but liberals or anti-communists though.

[-] ademir@lemmy.eco.br 12 points 8 months ago

capitalist states like China

China isn't a capitalist state.

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 8 months ago

It totally is. Not by your pet definition maybe but millions of wage workers and stock markets say otherwise

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

dbzero techbro who calls themselves a "libertarian socialist"

Okay, I can confidently ignore your geopolitical takes. Settler wind.

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Vaush proved that "libsoc" is just a more socially-acceptable way of identifying as a pedo.

EDIT: apparently they instance banned me 4 months ago for "pedojacketing, fashjacketing" which is an extremely revealing choice of language.

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Either a nonce or a horsefucker, if their streamer-daddy's any meterstick to measure by

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Why not both? These freaks never stop at just one fucked up immoral thing.

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 8 months ago

You ain't lied there, that's for sure

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Aren't you that guy who argued with your own community and played the victim over the use of AI art because you didn't want to accept you were being an insufferable AI techbro who doesn't understand consent? Like I've seen trolls flex more to criticism than you did there.

EDIT: Wondered why they didn't respond and. Holy shit I just looked at the modlog for dbzer0 and you can't make this shit up Banned me for reason: pedojacketing, fashjacketing

So you ARE a pedophile-nazi. Fucking love to see it. I will be adding your instance to my block list. If you see this: get help.

[-] ademir@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 8 months ago
[-] NuclearDolphin@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Capitalism is when markets. I am very smart.

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 points 8 months ago

I find that the most accurate definition is a society where the primary mode of production is wage work

[-] rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago

"State capitalism with Chinese characteristics"

[-] ademir@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 8 months ago
[-] Daz@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

What a depressing view of "socialism" you have.

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)
[-] Alsephina@lemmy.ml -2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Used to mean someone who would support sending in tanks to crush capitalist rallies like in Hungary (which most people who get labelled "tankies" these days obviously don't), but nowadays it's just an anti-communist term for anyone that supports any socialist revolution that has successfully built a socialist nation.

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online -3 points 8 months ago

Nah, its not anticommunism. Its anti authoritarianisnm

[-] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

All states are inherently "authoritarian" and enforce certain principles over others. What matters is if those principles materially prioritize workers over capitalists, which socialist states do.

You can't create a stateless, classless communist society from capitalism without a transitional socialist state that breaks the monopoly on force and propaganda that capitalist states have — specially in a world ruled by capitalist superpowers like the US which constantly coups and invades non-capitalist states. Thinking otherwise is just delusional and utopian.

No non-capitalist state will survive in the modern world if they don't sufficiently get rid of propaganda and deal with capitalist funded insurgencies, which capitalist states will label as "authoritarian"; they'd immediately be coup'd and overthrown by imperial core countries otherwise, as many socialist states have (Chile, Libya, etc).


And regardless, socialist states are a massive improvement over capitalist states when it comes to "authoritarianism" anyway, same as most other metrics. The US has 0.8% of its population in prison for example, while China has 0.1%. Similar stats on most metrics for the USSR vs USA; socialist Russia's human rights were also far better than capitalist Russia's, obviously.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You can’t create a stateless, classless communist society from capitalism without a transitional socialist state that breaks the monopoly on force and propaganda that capitalist states have — specially in a world ruled by capitalist superpowers like the US which constantly coups and invades non-capitalist states.

Ask the Zapatista. Yes, the US tried to get rid of them, couldn't, learned better and now is just letting them be. Rojava is an even better example as the US wilfully allied with them.

Figures if your revolution isn't centrally organised by Moscow or China post-McCarthy US doesn't actually care. Present-day US would've also let Cuba be SocDem, as was the original intent of the revolutionaries, instead of pushing them into alliance with the USSR.

[-] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Rojava is a decentralized capitalist region with no plans of being socialist/anarchist/etc whose leadership allows the US to use it as a imperialist proxy and military base in the region. Of course the US likes that lmao; the US National Security Council calls it another "israel" in the region.

The Zapatistas are cool comrades who fought off the US and other capitalist forces as all socialist projects have to. Different from most successful socialist revolutions in that it didn't establish a state (though it was managed centrally by the EZLN), but it has since succumbed to pressure from the government and cartels and has dissolved its municipalities last year — so it's not quite as successful of a revolution as those that establish a state, some of which have already managed to become nations of millions or global superpowers.

Cuba be SocDem, as was the original intent of the revolutionaries

"Social democracy" back then just meant socialism. The Bolsheviks who established the USSR were also "social democrats"

And your fantasies of the US ever letting a US-backed military dictatorship be overthrown and develop are funny, specially when it's currently committing a genocide in Palestine and not even letting them get rid of a western colony.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Rojava is a decentralized capitalist region

And the USSR was a centralised state capitalist system. China has even left the "state" part behind and is nowhere nearer abolishing class than it was at the start of the revolution. It actually regressed in that regard.

But, fine, call Rojava that if you will. Just shows how you can't see any possible roads to communism that don't involve the failed experiment that is state capitalism.

though it was managed centrally by the EZLN

The EZLN does not manage centrally. The EZLN is not even a governing body. It's a decentralised milita that councils tasked with matters of military security. It is those councils which are the governing body, not the EZLN. Rojava operates alongside the same lines, though details differ because cultural, material, and other differences.

I know it might be incomprehensible to you: A literal army, with all the capability it could wish for to order the local population around, sat down with the local population and told them about their ideas. The population then told them about theirs. They discussed, mutually refined their ideas until there was a consensus on how to move ahead, leading to what you see now. No shot was fired, noone was sent to gulag. They've also been capable of large organisational reforms, deliberated to consensus, implementation happened just a couple of months ago.

Maybe you should set aside some time and actually study those regions, not just read tankie cliff notes about how they supposedly work, or don't, or are secretly authoritarian, or whatever.

The Bolsheviks who established the USSR were also “social democrats”

The Bolsheviks were never democrats and the French social democrats still call themselves communists. But that's rather besides the point: The Cuban revolution was in the late 50, by then the split between SocDems and communists (both liberal and authoritarian) was not just done it had hardened. Heck the revolution ended in 59, after the word tankie had been established, which was 56, in direct reaction to the Soviet invasion of Hungary.

The point I'm making here is that Fidel & Co came to the US, said "We're eyeing doing something like your European allies are doing and want to be friends, you know, unions, welfare, worker's rights", the US said "nope, can't have you not be slaves to Bacardi and United Fruit you're our colony after all", Cuba said "never mind then we thought we could be friends then we'll go with our second choice, the USSR". The USSR, then, demanded from their allies a heavily authoritarian slant, so Cuba adopted it, in the interest of national survival not out of preference. Which is also why they are by far the furthest along among the surviving ML states when it comes to democratisation. Vietnam is second, with quite some distance, China makes no moves in that regard and North Korea, well, North Korea is only ever getting worse, not better. Oh, Eritrea. Same.

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online -1 points 8 months ago

Rojava, Zapatistas? Sorry, but Anarchists can form States without hierarchy

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

Zapatistas flexed and built a centralized structure it because they weren't getting anything done.

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