• @StinkySocialist@lemmy.ml
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    Isn’t it liberals handing the election to Trump by pretending like Biden has a chance and refusing to push forward a new candidate? Oh wait I forgot Liberals are fascist we just haven’t scratched them yet 🖕

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      Isn’t it liberals handing the election to Trump by pretending like Biden has a chance

      Liberals refused to run a candidate against Biden during the primary and called anyone bold enough to step into the ring a Russian plant. Now Biden’s sunk under 40% public approval, donors are backing out of the campaign, and the news media is turning on him like a pack of starved piranhas. And this is also because of those damned Russians undermining his campaign. The SCOTUS is greenlighting an endless catalog of future atrocities, while Trump revs up an ultra-nationalist partisan revolt, and that’s thanks to Russia, too. Republicans are putting out all sorts of slimy ads on social media and their own right-wing networks, which are another example of Russian infiltration. And if Biden can’t close the deal in November, because a state fucks up its counting before the SCOTUS shuts the recount down, you know that’s going to be blamed on the Russians.

      So, really, this isn’t anything the liberals did. Its not even something the conservatives did. Everything bad happening in America right now is because of Russians. Also, the Chinese.

    • @Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee
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      Yes… But they’ll still blame the left… They know the only way to beat Trump is for the center and left to team up, but instead of actually trying to team up, they’re just running their usual strongarm and gaslight routine to get the left to fall inline… Which has never worked for them the way it works for the right

      • @StinkySocialist@lemmy.ml
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        Do you think Biden should drop out and be replaced by a Dem who could do better in the polls? I’m not pretending you have any power I’m sure someone as feckless as you doesn’t. But you’re the type to insist that he should stay in the race despite losing in the polls right?

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          Biden has a VP that can take over and a whole administration to take care of things.

          And there’s nobody else but his own VP who even have a chance, and might as well stay as Biden’s VP instead of introducing a new random person to the national vote. If Biden gives in before the end of the next term she’ll be the next president anyway

          • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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            Biden has a VP that can take over

            But she won’t. She needs a Senatorial fossil at the top of the ticket, because he’s the “only one” who can beat Trump. Nevermind the polls. Nevermind his dismal debate performance. Nevermind the ample evidence of his cognitive decline. Kamala Harris is DOA in 2024. Only Biden can win.

          • @StinkySocialist@lemmy.ml
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            Look if I thought bye and could win I wouldn’t care if he kills over or not I just don’t want Trump in there and Biden is losing in the polls.

            Trump has routinely been underestimated by the poles in the past see 2016 and how 2020 was closer than we anticipated.

            This idea that there’s nobody besides Kamala Harris that would have a chance as ridiculous. Biden and Kamal are some of the two most unlikeable candidates we’ve ever had. Looks at the polls.

            I would prefer a much farther left candidate than either of these but Gavin Newsom and Gretchen Whitmore would both do immensely better against Trump Biden would.

        • @null@slrpnk.netOP
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          Do you think Biden should drop out and be replaced by a Dem who could do better in the polls?

          Absolutely.

          But you’re the type to insist that he should stay in the race despite losing in the polls right?

          Based on what?

          • @StinkySocialist@lemmy.ml
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            My bad than Friendly Fire same team. Lmao

            Really hate being called a tanky by libs. I assumed you were one of those right wingers who are defending Biden to help Trump win. You know the kind of left-wing moderate who are so moderate that you makes you wonder if they’re just Republicans.

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              And I really hate when “Leftists” roll up to a discussion about the merits of making a choice at the ballot box to snarkily tell people that the magical solution is actually to just do something that’s outside of their control.

              It’s really telling how many people got pissed off thinking this meme was about them just because it includes the word tankie. Start holding the people like the one in the meme accountable instead of making wild assumptions and hurling insults.

              • @StinkySocialist@lemmy.ml
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                I wonder why socialists who live under a government that did things like the Red Scare would be offended by people punching left than using derogatory terms for socialists like tankie.

                To be clear you should not punch left that’s something that fascists do.

                • @null@slrpnk.netOP
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                  So you have nothing to say about Leftists pushing for Biden to lose to Trump, but god forbid someone uses the word tankie in a meme.

                  Glad to see your priorities are in order.

        • @jumjummy@lemmy.world
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          Yet fools like you say this, but don’t offer any suggestions. Tell me, who do you think could replace Biden on the ballot now and stand a chance of winning?

          I’m just waiting for the bullshit “literally anyone else” as an answer.

          • @StinkySocialist@lemmy.ml
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            Gavin newsome Gretchen whitmore Anyone under 70 who isn’t a fascist

            I’m sure you’re going to say they don’t have the name recognition and completely ignore the fact that that news would be so big it would make someone anyone including me or your mom one of the most famous people on the planet. Outside of that all they’d need to do is be able to string a sentence together better than the corpse of Biden.

            Was that enough information for you to understand? I’m used to people being able to think on their own 😏

    • @SleezyDizasta@lemmy.world
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      Marxism and Fascism are sister ideologies that are similar in both theory and in practice. This moronic idea that Fascism is the polar opposite of Marxism is literally Soviet propaganda that they pushed after WWII to justify their tyranny, massacres, and censorship. Which is ironic because this what they accuse the Fascists of doing. It becomes more ironic that the Soviets and the Nazis were quite literally allies who signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact where they agreed to non aggression, greater cooperation, and to invade and divide countries together.

      Marxists are Fascists are two sides of the same evil coin. Liberalism is the polar opposite to both of these shitty ideologies. You’re not the good guys.

      • @StinkySocialist@lemmy.ml
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        Congratulations you said the dumbest thing I’ve seen all day!

        Are you going to ignore how Hitler first killed the Socialist have you ever heard that poem that has the line when they came for the Jews I said nothing for I was not a Jew and when they came for me there was no one else left go reread that poem and tell me who the first people they took where?

        Hitler used to refer to socialism as Jewish bolshivism. Do you know the Nazis killed more Soviet soldiers than any other country soldiers and that Soviets killed more Nazis than any other country killed Nazis.

        Both my grandfathers were American soldiers during World War II one of them went to prisoner of Work Camp in Nazi Germany do you want to know who Freedom the f****** Soviets.

        Do you know what country marched on Berlin and ended Nazi Germany?

        You’re fucking ignorant. Horseshoe theory is propaganda the US came up with during the Cold War. Read a book

        • @SleezyDizasta@lemmy.world
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          Are you going to ignore how Hitler first killed the Socialist have you ever heard that poem that has the line when they came for the Jews I said nothing for I was not a Jew and when they came for me there was no one else left go reread that poem and tell me who the first people they took where?

          It’s not secret that Marxists and Fascists hated each other. Then again they hate everyone who isn’t from the right groups and doesn’t entirely agree with them. Still doesn’t change the fact that the Soviets and the Nazis did in fact sign an alliance that led to them invading Poland together… You know, the thing that led France and the UK to declare war on Hitler and officially begin WWII.

          Do you know the Nazis killed more Soviet soldiers than any other country soldiers and that Soviets killed more Nazis than any other country killed Nazis.

          That’s stupid. Of course there were going to be more deaths from both of them against each other because more soliders fought on the Eastern front than any other front. The Soviet Union and Germany were only two powers on that front. Them exchanging more deaths doesn’t mean what you think it does.

          Both my grandfathers were American soldiers during World War II one of them went to prisoner of Work Camp in Nazi Germany do you want to know who Freedom the f****** Soviets.

          Okay, but how this detract from the fact that the Soviets having their own work camps? The Soviet gulags were infamous. They had somewhere between 10 and 20 million prisoners between 1930 and 1953, and about 1 to 2 million were killed.

          Do you know what country marched on Berlin and ended Nazi Germany?

          Go to Berlin or ANY Eastern European country and ask them how the Soviet experience was. You’ll find that most people see the Soviets and the Nazis in the same light. They weren’t liberators, but ruthless conquerors. The Eastern European countries quickly realized when the Soviets rolled through that they weren’t freed, but rather “under new management”.

          You’re fucking ignorant. Horseshoe theory is propaganda the US came up with during the Cold War. Read a book

          I don’t think you understand that the Nazis ≠ Fascism, the Soviets ≠ Marxism, and the Soviets and Nazis fighting each other doesn’t make the ideologies opposites. Mussolini, the founder of fascism, was literally a life long Marxist before he created fascism as alternative to the flaws he saw with the socialists at the time. Fascism and Marxism are quite literally sister ideologies.

          This idea that these two ideologies are polar opposites stems from Soviet propaganda post war that they used to justify their tyranny and atrocities. It was a tool to keep people in line and purge out opposition. The reality is that they’re more similar than different.

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    Que all liberals on lemmy.world falling over each other to prove they don’t actually have a clue what a tankie even is…

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        My mind is kinda blown by this. I always thought it was “queue”, so “queue all liberals saying such and such” would be like “all liberals are going to line up to say such and such”, but cue works!

    • @enbyecho@lemmy.world
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      yeah, let‘s not fall for this tankie narrative. It doesn‘t exist.

      But it’s intellectually SO MUCH easier!

  • @RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.cafe
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    Biden perhaps shouldn’t have enabled a genocide, just saying.

    Also the correct term is Arab Americans

    How Arab American voters’ backlash could imperil Biden’s 2024 campaign

    In Michigan, for example, Biden won in 2020 by 154,000 votes. Census estimates put the state’s Arab American population around at least 278,000.

    Biden won Arizona by 10,500 votes. The Arab American population in the Grand Canyon State is estimated to be 60,000.

    Biden took Georgia by 11,800 votes. The Arab American population there is at least 57,000.

    Inside Biden’s Broken Relationship With Muslim and Arab American Leaders

    Biden losing Arab-American voters in swing state

    ‘The man broke my heart’: Biden’s Arab-American boosters begin to leave his side

    The fact that liberals would rather strawperson Arab and Muslim Americans and anyone else repulsed by the genocide than acknowledge the reality and try to stop it is hard to understand beyond it being based in racism and chauvinism. What group of people would vote for the person enabling their own genocide?

    Edit: While Marxist-Leninists, i.e. Tankies, do exist in the US they never constituted a significant voting bloc that can sway elections, they always opposed the Democratic Party even before the genocide. Minorities such as Arab Americans -mostly Christian- and Muslim Americans do constitute a significant voting bloc that can sway elections and they used to be a consistent voter base for the Democratic Party in past elections.

    An overlooked and undercounted group of Arab American and Muslim voters may have outsized impact on 2024 presidential election

    In Michigan, Muslim and Arab American Voters Reconsider Support for Biden

    The dismissive racism and genocide apologia by liberals is going to cost you Arab and Muslim Americans for more than one election cycle. I wish you had some self awareness and empathy to realize it.

    Final Note: This is not meant to elicit debate and I don’t need an explanation on how elections work in the US or why the US will support Israel no matter what it does regardless of who is president. I am just sharing another side of the story that seem to be purposefully ignored.

    I cited agreeable news source and articles and yet this comment is getting downvoted. I guess liberals would rather invent a strawperson they can easily take down than acknowledge they are losing among minorities in swing states.

    Just look at the number of voters considering third party candidates:

    Exclusive poll: Black voters aren’t thrilled with Biden but dislike Trump more

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      Look, Im trans. If he loses, Im the one getting genocided. Its perhaps a mirthless disposition, but I am absolutely willing to put off Palestine so I dont get shot, and probably so you dont get deported tol btw

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        I’m simply stating the facts as they are, it is not my fault that the Democratic Party lost Arab and Muslim American voters.

        but I am absolutely willing to put off Palestine

        How would this argument win over Arab and Muslim Americans? You are basically saying: “I don’t care if you get genocided but you have to care about me”. On the upside as the polls show, Trump is even more unpopular than Biden so you can’t blame us if Trump wins, blame those who voted for him.

        so I dont get shot

        Arab and Muslim Americans are already getting shot. My personal recommendation is start exercising your 2nd amendment rights:

        so you dont get deported

        So be it but only if Darrell Issa is deported first

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          Because those exact same fears I have should apply to you personally too. We have exactly two options. One will kill us both, and the other wont. Getting to say I told you so while were in a camp isnt helping Palestinians now is it?

    • @null@slrpnk.netOP
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      Let me change around your words and then shame you for the new position I created for you. Oh, and don’t bother debating me, I’m only interested in the sound of my own voice

    • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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      Maybe privileged white kids need to stop pitching a fit whenever they ignore the chance the party is practically handing to them every time a primary is held?

      AOC is in congress right now because of how easy it is to KO party leadership with overwhelming turnout, and yet whenever I go to cast my primary ballot for progressives all I be seein’ is senior day at the community center.

      You don’t get to have better things to do on primary day and then pitch fits about who everyone that did voted for.

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          Probably a better place than wherever you got the delusion that anybody but bougie upper middle class white kids are seriously pitching a fight about this shit still when the Supreme Court just endorsed Trump putting everyone else in camps as long as he calls it an “official act”

          Literally nobody else could be so blinded by their privilege to not see the bigger picture as its illuminated with big neon signs and blasting an air raid siren to draw attention to itself.

          Also, only a bougie white kid feels the need to call foul about “the race card.”

          Man the self declared totally legit leftists in this thread just be borrowing all the neo-nazi wafflisms.

          Gaslight Gatekeep Girlboss I guess, might as well get that last one out of the way before Trump official acts the handmaiden’s tale into state policy.

    • @Kedly@lemm.ee
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      Is that when you joined Lemmy? Because Lemmy is infested with Tankies, and you’ll hear someone calling them out before long

      edit: Spelling Errors

      • @11111one11111@lemmy.world
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        No, but considering Lemmy overall has grown 5800% in active monthly users in the first month the Reddit protests began, it’s safe to assume most people haven’t been here much longer than that lol. How long have you b3en using Lemy? 20 years? 50 years? Lol /s

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          I joined during the Reddit migration and ended up dealing with Tankies almost immediately. Before Lemmy I always thought most Communists would claim that true communism hasnt happened yet, I was NOT expecting people who aggressively protected safe spaces and didnt allow any level of words that could be considered slurs to think that Russia and China have done nothing wrong and are super great countries

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            Yeah I have been hearing the word “tankies” thrown around since joining during the great migration, too. I still don’t understand what the term means lol

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              Its a communist who thinks Russia and China are ideals to follow, easy enough to understand.

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        I apologize I’m only up to ‘s’ in my quest to memoriz3 every fucking word ever used in the English language. 🙄 The fuckin word, “meme” is like a million years old. It doesn’t mean it was as regularly used in conversation before social media. On a different note, for how many other languages use Lemy how would you know English is my primary language?

    • @boonhet@lemm.ee
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      It’s decades old. Refers to people who support communist regimes regardless of what they do. Originally because the Soviet Union used tanks to quell rebellion and some people in the west still cheered for them.

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        I believe it was coined by the British left when the USSR quashed the Hungarian revolution by driving tanks through their streets. Anyone still in support of them is deemed a “tankie.” Nowadays it was meant to criticize authoritarian communists.

        • VeganPizza69 Ⓥ
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          when the USSR quashed the Hungarian revolution

          quashed the Hungarian communist (democratic worker) revolution; lowercase.

          • PorkRoll
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            Right, right, they were like “you’re not doing it right!”

      • @Notyou@sopuli.xyz
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        Was it from the Soviet Union? I always assumed it was a reference to justifying Tianamen Square.

        I guess that more you know.

  • @x4740N@lemm.ee
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    Just mention the Red Terror

    Should work as repellent for tankies and russian specific trolls

    For country specific trolls you need to mention something that is censored locally there that the trolls are afraid of their supervisor seeing which leads for some people mentioning massacres like “Red Terror” or “Tiannamen Square” and that is the reasoning behind it

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      I mean, you can even see them self-identifying as tankies in this very thread. But okay.

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      Tankies are not fascist, they are just willing to do whatever it takes to defend the socialist revolution.

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        If I was to give this point of the benefit of the doubt (which, to be clear, I don’t) what you’re saying is that tankies are accelerationists. And I get it, to an extent – a comfortable middle class isn’t going to be concerned about the depredations of the right until they start to find themselves in the crosshairs – but the last time fascists got their way in the world, more than 73 million people died. Arguing, in effect, that the aftermath of another world war will be better for the survivors is a… challenging point to defend when it requires you to dismiss the deaths of a significant percentage of the world’s population, especially when those most in danger from a rising right wing are those that a supposed left-winger should most want to protect. Sacrificing religious, ethnic, and sexual minorities on the altar of a better future for religious, ethnic, and sexual minorities doesn’t sit well with me.

        • OBJECTION!
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          Defending a revolution is not accelerationism. I have no idea how you got that from what they said, or generally where this idea of tankies being accelerationists comes from, it seems to be mostly something people make up about us. Accelerationism is stupid and reactionary.

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              Yes, he is. Not sure what that has to do with the incorrect claim that tankies are accelerationists.

              • @davidagain@lemmy.world
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                Most tankies on lemmy spend a lot of time arguing for people to do things that lead to Trump bringing much of fascism to America. Not sure if you’d noticed.

      • @mashbooq@lemmy.world
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        Tankies, just like other fascists, are willing to do whatever it takes to gain and keep power, including pretending to support socialism

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          A socialist revolution by definition cannot be fascist, fascism is a far right movement and a socialist revolution is far left movement they both have authoritarian aspects, but are polar opposites as far as the goals of each movement. Socialism is for the benefit of all, fascism is for the benefit of the few.

          Also I’m not an accelerationist and am voting for Biden, there is no where near enough class conciousness in the States for a Prolitariat Revolution to occur, but once that critical tipping point is reached I think Landlords and Billionaires should get the wall if they refuse to peacefully give up their hordes of wealth and property for the common good and that the revolution should be defended by any means necessary.

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            Fine, I will grant you, you aren’t fascists. Fascists hate people and want to kill them.

            Tankies love “the revolution” more than the people they want to benefit. You may not see it as breaking a few eggs to make an omelette, but when you sit out an election where the fascists have a better than coin flip odds of seizing power, you are effectively letting them do that. And if you’re willing to let trans people die in camps for… what was it? “Enough class consciousness to build” then… well, fuck you and your revolution.

            Like, also this reveals your total all encompassing privilege. Because look dude, if the fascists are putting trans people and immigrants into camps, do you really think they will spare you? Or do you just think you’re white enough that you’ll go under the radar until your “revolution” happens?

            Also, fuck any revolution that involves taking up the tools and institutions of power. Those need to be ground to dust

            • @Railcar8095@lemm.ee
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              Tankies are like NRA lunatics that dream with the chance to shoot somebody, but are scared to try alone.

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                I’m not sure about that; I think a lot of radicalizing discourse of late comes from the same place. Life under late stage capitalism is hard, and people are not sure why, nor can they articulate it. And they can tell it’s getting worse. Its a rife breeding ground for fascists, but when you hit leftist spaces, the tankies have the biggest net. You’ll be greeted by r/socialism, and find yourself in its web of subs. You might get pulled in by a Gravel Institute video (especially since you might be aware of Prager U and are interested in a video from the other end). It might be Chapo Trap House. And a lot of entry points into Tankie spaces are extremely compelling. For a lot of people, it will be the first anti Imperial talking points they will ever hear, with no liberal “but this is the greatest nation” filter.

                I think this content is actually good and useful. The USA is guilty of myriad atrocities that its citizenry doesn’t know about, or the full depth, or doesn’t think about in order to get through their daily life.

                But then after you get past that, the Tankie reveals himself to be “Anti Nato” without an cohesive political or moral position, in a very “politics as a team sport” kind of way. Russia is a moderately sized challenger to NATO, so they love it. It is also a successor state to a Red Empire. Ukraine is NATO making overtures to NATO, so they don’t like it. Israel is an imperialist NATO outpost, and they are committing a genocide, so of course they don’t like it, but so many tankies have shown their whole ass diving into Antisemitism, making fun of Jewish names, or Jewish influence on policy, that Ive exited most of the tankie spaces I was still in. Antizionism is not antisemitism, and they are antisemites.

                But compare that to China, where they deny a genocide because it is being perpetrated by the largest challenger to NATO and still nominally communist state in the world, and you have your answer.

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                  But compare that to China, where they deny a genocide because it is being perpetrated by the largest challenger to NATO and still nominally communist state in the world, and you have your answer.

                  In fairness most people deny the genocide claims made by the anti=China think-tanks.

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                  I’m not going to try to read on your ideology, but I think you’re missing why people dislike tankies.

                  It’s not that they are against NATO, Israel, US, Ukraine… Or that they support Russia, China…

                  The problems are two:

                  1. Absolute belief that the world is black and white, and that their side is a paragon of virtue and quality of life, and human rights… Any and all criticism is “western propaganda”. This means anything they can’t deny is the others side fault “Zelensky is to blame for defending” and “Israel is to blame for attacking”.

                  2. Beyond just “excusing” the atrocities, they love them. Anybody who opposes them is a valid target. They might rationalize it in some cases, but in the end there are no innocent civilians unless they support them.

                  Edit: I’ve seem to have hurt some tankies feelings. Good.

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                  the Tankie reveals himself to be “Anti Nato” without an cohesive political or moral position

                  Opposition to NATO is a cohesive political position. We’re happy to explain our views when people are willing to hear us out, generally though, people just want to put nonsense into our mouths and then call us nonsensical.

                  but so many tankies have shown their whole ass diving into Antisemitism, making fun of Jewish names, or Jewish influence on policy, that Ive exited most of the tankie spaces I was still in. Antizionism is not antisemitism, and they are antisemites.

                  As usual about accusations towards tankies, there’s no link. Show your receipts or stop making stuff up.

            • Grayox
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              Lol what? Please tell me what exactly i said that implies im ok with trans folks and immigrants being rounded up in camps?

      • @WamGams@lemmy.ca
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        Lol, which is why historically they have coalitioned with the right to murder the socialists before the socialists could take power.

      • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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        Such as allying with the fascists so hard that Stalin was in talks to join the axis before Barbarossa.

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        Whatever it takes including sending tanks after people because they don’t agree with your rule or am I missing something? Tankies is literally authoritarian or do you mean that your ideology is different and you want people to stop calling you that?

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        If they’re voting for Biden then why are they saying they won’t vote for Biden and are encouraging others not to vote for Biden? 🤔

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          I mean some might be fascists from like 8chan RPing as tankies. If I recall like a white republican congressman had a sockpuppet where he pretended to be a black guy.

          You have to assume a certain amount of pro-trump stuff is straight up BS

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        Such as justifying capitalist oligarchs that pretend to be socialists like Putin and Xi.

        Actually, Putin doesn’t even pretend to be socialist. He’s pretty unashamedly capitalist. Tankies love the guy anyway.

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          Funny how the self-proclaimed vanguard of the radical left are just incoherent anti-western reactionaries wearing Marxism like a fig leaf, isn’t it? Like, I’m all for breaking down the current neoliberal capitalist hegemony, but you’ve gotta have a hole in your head to want to replace it with a literal crime syndicate masquerading as a government or an oppressive hyper-capitalist dictatorship with imperialistic ambitions.

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              An interesting question, with (I think) a range of viable answers, in the angels-on-pinheads sense of pure theory. I personally think the sweet spot would be a broadly social-democratic system where basic industries are socialized to varying degrees, a regulated free market exists for novel industries and goods we would think of as “discretionary spending” items, and the market regulator has the capacity to move industries gradually from the latter category towards the former as they mature and become foundational to the society and economy.

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                How are Marxists-Leninists preventing Social Democracy? They aren’t organized, they have no viable political parties, as far as I know, they don’t even hold any state, or federal offices. It seems your complaints are with the neoliberals that are firmly in control.

                Hate “tankies” all you want, but they are irrelevant to what is happening in America. This is punching down because people feel hopeless while facing a Trump re-election. It is unproductive and detrimental to building the unified coalition needed to fight fascism.

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                  Are you confusing my argument that “tankies are useful idiots for authoritarianism whose actions have no relationship with their professed values” to imply that they’re somehow in the driver’s seat on anything? Or hell, that they’re even sincere Marxists?

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        You have a choice between 1) capitalism that’s free for all, fuck the earth, fuck the workers, fuck the consumer, disband the EPA, OSHA, FTC, or 2) capitalism that’s regulated, with environmental protection, worker protections, minimum wages, workplace standards, product regulations, etc. The choice should be obvious.

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            Is that in the meme? In my opinion, Stalin was counter-revolutionary to Marxism:

            Thus, as Trotsky long ago foresaw, the successes of planned economy at home and the advances of the revolution abroad sharpened the internal contradictions of Soviet society, bringing them to explosive political expression against the totalitarian regime of the bureaucratic oligarchy that usurped power following the death of Lenin

            But I don’t reject what he was trying to achieve, as I don’t reject what Xi is trying in China. Don’t let Perfect be the enemy of Good.

            Achieving absolute perfection may be impossible; one should not let the struggle for perfection stand in the way of appreciating or executing on something that is imperfect but still of value.

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                It can be. Capitalism as an economic system is efficient at raising industrial standards. Capitalism, as a tool for industrialization isn’t bad.

                The problem with capitalism is that it strains social relations within the system by producing inequality of wealth distribution.

                Technology-driven changes in production make new social forms possible, such that old social forms and classes become outmoded and displaced by new ones. Once, the dominant class were the land owning lords. But the new industrial system produced a new dominant class: the capitalists. source

                Capitalism isn’t evil, it’s a tool. But the social relations capitalism creates is oppressive, and will be dismantled.

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        Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.

        Luke 23:34

      • Noxy
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        project 2025 is not a socialist revolution

    • @manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml
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      To place Russian communism and Nazi-fascism on the same moral plane, in that both would be totalitarian, is superficial at best, fascism at worst. Whoever insists on this equation may well consider himself a democrat, in truth and in the bottom of his heart he is in fact already a fascist, and certainly only in a hypocritical and insincere way will he fight fascism, while reserving all his hatred for communism.

      • Thomas Mann
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        NO U

        Stunning. Incredible take.

        Also they said fascism, not nazi-fascism. Tankies aren’t nazis. They excuse completely different genocides than the holocaust.

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        They said tankies, not Russian communism.

        Everybody knows russian communism is marginally better than fascism, except those who survived it and fascistly say it’s as bad.

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          There’s no such thing as Russian communism. They never were communist and never will be communist. They liked the word communist. Or at least saying it a lot. They liked also pretend that it was their aspiration to become communist. But no Marxist leninist government has ever or will ever achieve communism. But they will ruin its name with their hypocritical Behavior.

          There is a difference between a fascist and a Marxist leninist. But they are both authoritarian. So it isn’t massive. And if you cross the end group in either one your life is forfeit.

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        It’s true because Thomas said it?

        Edit: Nice downvotes but I would actually like to know his reasoning.

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      Reminds me of when Hexbear would flood into any political discussion to sow discord and chaos.

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      Its really funny too because they think saying “Tankie just means people I dont agree with” doesnt immediately out them as a Tankie trying to muddy the waters. Thanks for letting me know you’re actually a hexbear!

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      Harris may replace Biden and they have to try to get people predisposed to not voting for Harris either.