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this post was submitted on 15 Nov 2024
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This is a bad faith meme that represents anyone making any form of compromise as a rude, close-minded, genocide supporter, posted by an account that frequently posts pro-China, sometimes pro-Russia propaganda, and hops between Western country-focused lemmy's pending election cycles.
Just making sure the context for this post is visible.
They're not depicted as rude, they're depicted as an know-it-all eager compromiser that ends up working for the forces of reaction because they have no real principles or red lines.
That is generally the attitude of "centrists" and people that go out of the way to congratulate themselves on "being practical" by triamgulating. If they were open to actual principles they eould no longer be triangulating on them, and triangulating is their primary commitment.
Like virtually every Democratic member of Congress and both of their presidential candidates? Anyone tolerating that is indeed complicit. It does not require any mental gymnastics to acknowledge this.
No!!! I almost passed out when I read that. You're telling me there are good aspects of a designated enemy of empire!? Impossible.
Open-minded btw.
Not another designated enemy!!! I almost died when I read this.
Is this supposed to imply something bad about them?
The only moral stance is to post about the US election in lemmydotEthiopia, the Australian election in lemmydotSuriname, the Bolivian election in LemmydotAlbania, and so on, but only if it's months out of sync. Anything else is suspicious.
And here I thought statements of lemmy.ml being overrun with tankies were exaggurated. Boy your deconstruction of my post sure showed me!
Tell me about it. When I first learned that the website developed and run by Communists had Communists on it, I couldn't believe what was happening.
Seeing you seething and coping publicly really makes my day little buddy.
Don't conflate my concern in speaking out against discourse like as "seething and coping." My goal is to call out attempts to divide and other people for what it is.
stay mad
Very surprising that the main instance admin'd by leftists has leftists on it.
Authoritarian manipulation is not a leftist value.
What do you mean "authoritarian manipulation?" What on Earth are you talking about?
From Wikipedia.
The comment I am responding to never denied that there is an influx of tankies here. Instead you said I shouldn't be surprised to find leftists here, inferring that leftists are tankies. Being authoritarian and manipulating information to manipulate people is not a leftist value.
You can disagree with me all you want. I'll respect that. I would appreciate if you had better respect than to treat me like I am insane and my statements make no sense just because you disagree.
It's more that anyone that uses the word "tankie" as an unironic pejorative is extremely likely to have never read Marxist theory and are just trying to attack Marxists that go against the standard western narrative. You just pulling the Wikipedia article when both of us are obviously familiar with the term is just condescending.
Nobody is intentionally "authoritarian." The people trying to separate "authoritarian" Communists from "true" Communists are the same people that say there has never been "true" attempts at building Communism. Moreover, the separation point between "authoritarian" and "democratic" is never outlined, it's purely vibes-based and meaningless. Marx and Engels were often called "authoritarian" as well, to the point that Engels wrote On Authority to debunk the entire vibes-based notion of it.
I am not treating you like you are "insane," but that you are out of your depth when it comes to Leftist theory if you're going to be throwing the term "tankie" around like it has actual meaning.
Sounds like you just can't defend your own comment. You're all talk when it's time to call people names but this is your entire response to me? lmao
I hope you can someday have the courage of your convictions, "anti-authoritarian".