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All while posting in a community that uses China, a historically and modern-day imperialist country as its icon. Irony is dead.

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[–] aSingularFemboyHooter 34 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's not even both side bad. Fuck colonial Russia, fuck the Hamas butchers that wouldn't waste a breath before slitting the throats of anyone that leftists support.

Why the fuck are these people supporting these absolute scum that stand against any progressive ideals.

[–] goat 21 points 10 months ago

because US bad

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Their whole ideology revolves around owning the “Ameritards”, even if it means preaching trans rights while simping violently homophobic far-right authoritarian regimes like ruzzia and hamas.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have seen progressives in general become so anti-American that they start shilling for blatantly far right talking points. Claiming that the Japanese internment camps were "concentration camps" because it fits the technical definition is a classic example. It's literally a Holocaust denial through trivialization/moral equivalency tactic that the far right loves.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Yeah, as a Washington state resident I’m vividly aware of my state’s racist treatment of its large Japanese minority during WW2, but “concentration camps” is an exaggeration for sure, and does a huge disservice to the Holocaust victims, Uyghurs, and the indigenous children in those old Canadian and American “boarding schools”; now THOSE are/were concentration camps.

[–] Socsa 29 points 10 months ago

Literally the only consistency in their worldview is that it has nothing to do with communism.

[–] Peaty 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

There's no such thing as an educated tankie. They are, like the fascists they detest, a collection of the stupid and easily mislead.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

I wouldn't say uneducated, rather they simply have no real world experience. Fascists and tankies inevitably include a lot of young, angry, neckbeard incels who have a lot of misplaced anger from within their own personal lives. None of them have ever seen anything like the types of polices they call for IRL, so it's easy for them to talk real big. In reality if they ever saw the types of policies they call for acted out in front of them or at the slightest chance of those polices happening to them, they'd very quickly fold and recant everything.

They like to imagine in their heads that they'd be one of the ones on top. In such a society, even the people with authority are under a lot of control and they're expected to be draconian.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Peaty 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

No, they are tankies. They are both dumb but at least tankies have a theoretically positive goal.

[–] goat 3 points 10 months ago

Every extremist, from religious nutters to neo-nazis to tankies, all believe they have a positive goal. As for your fascist comments, they have proven themselves to be fascist when it comes to particular countries, see here

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Genocide is a positive goal? You mate are deluded.

[–] goat 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Lol Is that Spock? 😅

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

when the people saying "No war but class war" are insufficiently Communist for your tastes because they don't support an oligarchic capitalist imperialist state invading another capitalist state

Insane.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Sounds like they are about to schism. Good.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's funny - actual leftists schism like crazy, because they care about policy. Tankies never schism, because it's only about the sense of community.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Same thing with the MAGA people. There's no actual principles, just an aesthetic and vibes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

MAGA, no schism? Not for long, RFK jr’s bouta split the MAGA vote

[–] goat 3 points 10 months ago

Nah, they won't do that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Fucking Bougeyevik Hamasaboos

I've been learning Sham dialect to be more in tune with my grandfather's culture, and these assholes make me feel like some sick fetish for them to wack off to for even stepping that far into being Palestinian.