I’ve been accused of being a tankie, and I think he’s great. But obviously the McCarthyites of Lemmy would rather create a straw man than listen to anything a red has to say.
If you’re comparing shitting on tankies to McCarthyism, you might be a tankie.
Lots of people on the left hate tankies, because tankies are more fascist than leftist in praxis. McCarthyism basically accuses anyone with a remotely left-wing opinion as being as bad as a tankie, which is a strawman.
Tankies have more in common with McCarthyism than they’re willing to admit. That’s called horseshoe politics.
I would swap fascism with authoritarianism or totalitarianism. To equal the left and right wing in any kind always sounds like horseshoe theory. But apart from that you are right.
Stalin was nominally communist, functionally fascist. It’s not an absurd distinction to make, for anyone capable of understanding nuance.
I know precisely what fascism is, and the dumbfuck tankies accusing Mamdani of it are absolutely wrong.
I said they’re the same in praxis, not ideology. You’d think a fucking leftist would understand the difference.
And your picture is kind of a strawman in this context, because I wasn’t using “horseshoe politics” to describe phenomena of the abolition era. I was using it to describe phenomena of the current era where the contexts are different. But since tankies are allergic to nuance, I don’t suppose you’ll be comprehend that and you’ll probably just resort to ad hominems.
Yes dear, everyone that doesn’t agree with your nonsense is a tankie, and therefore wrong.
You were saying about ad hominems?
Fascist tankies? Tell me you’ve huffed capitalist propaganda without telling me you’ve huffed capitalist propaganda. Y’all are miseducated af
Capitalists could not give a fuck less about tankies, what they think, what they are doing. These people basically only exist on Internet forums and have zero effect on anyone outside of their bubble.
It's wild innit? This whole section of children jawing about adult topics while chewing capitalist bubblegum.
Fuck off, tankie.
False accusations mean nothing.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
Tankie does not equal any communist. People are fine with listening to communists, it’s MLs they draw the line at.
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I am an ML as are most communists.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
Yes that’s obvious when you said you were called a tankie.
nforminvasion@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How does a system that requires a stateless society appeal to hierarchists like tankies?