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[–] 21 points 4 weeks ago (70 children)

People attacking the .ml people for organizing while under pressure from the biggest worldwide alt right push in our generation is the funniest shit to me. God forbid the leftists start thinking collectively, you saw what happened to the donald? We're currently fucked by all that chicanery but heavens forbid you start thinking in the opposite direction too much, wouldn't want to get out of the right wing mess that we're living through, least of all if we put in place all those policies my right wing propaganda says are evil. Yeah this is so seruious that we should definitely all quickly jump into being right wing surveillance states to prevent the leftists from doing something about us all eating massive amounts of shit right now.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    see that's the funny bit. I've met like 2 self proclaimed tankies irl, all other leftists think they're lame as hell.

    they don't organize, they just sit behind keyboards and pretend they are.

    as long as they show up and help, I have never met anyone who has a problem with them existing in irl leftists groups on ideology alone. it's when they say shit like Ukraine is full of Nazis, or voting isn't even worth showing up to the polls, or that the uyghur genocide is a lie, then they gotta go.

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  • Sharing my experience: I have found that online, "tankie" just gets thrown at any leftist that "goes too far" authoritarian or not.

    Do I agree with the Soviet use of tanks to suppress dissident in Europe in the 19th century? In so far as I wasn't there and therefore don't know fuck all about it: no. Am I going to clamor to distance myself from people who are accused of being tankies on Lemmy, especially if the people making the accusations are soc dems or centerists? Nah. Not engaging with that nonsense.

    I've never met someone calling themselves that IRL, but that might be because it's more of a youth thing. I agree that there is a lot more cooperation IRL, which is what's important.

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