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Horseshoe theory is horseshit.
Imperialist Propaganda and the Ideology of the Western Left Intelligentsia: From Anticommunism and Identity Politics to Democratic Illusions and Fascism
This is an example of what being nice is for the average Lemmy user
Jesus Christ you people can't even comment without going ballistic at each other over the slightest thing
I wouldn’t call this the “average” Lemmy user, but there is a minority of very loud users who make it seem that way at times.
If we want this to be a pleasant place, users need to report them, and mods & admins—who, I cannot stress enough, do this labor for free or at most peanuts—need to deal with them.
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/code_of_conduct.html
You’ve once again shown your empty accusations and insults, contrary to OP’s advice in this post.
I have no problem with them being here, FYI
Why thank you, one of my thousands of no good, bad faith alt accounts.
Proof?
Proof is: it’s a joke. The woman above accused me of downvoting her with my many alt accounts, and this isn’t the first time she’s done it to me. She has no evidence of course, and the mods & admins can trivially see that she’s just shit talking. But I’m the bad faith actor, she says. She’s a troll.
Also proof? I mean, as long as baseless accusations are being thrown around..
Proof of what? The proof of her making baseless accusations are in her comments and in the modlog.
Or are you asking me to prove a negative? That the downvotes are not coming from my thousands of alt accounts?
Or did you still not get my joke, and you think that I’m genuinely accusing you of being a bad faith alt account?
Calling an admin an alt account is a bold play.
They have one very important thing in common. They both support the alt-right. Fascists because they want to. Leftist because they're purists.
They do not support the alt-right. What are you even talking about? “MAGA communists” almost never show up on Lemmy, and when they do they are quickly shown the door. And Marxist are neither “purists,” “idealists,” nor “utopians,” which you’d know if you’d read any Marxist theory.
They support the alt-right by being overly idealistic and failing to partner with liberals and more moderate leftists to make progress.
Divide and be conquered.
Partnering with liberals is idealistic. They always stab you in the back at the first opportunity.
I disagree. Socialists often tactically partner with liberals on shared goals, despite the risks. Knowing that, when forced to choose, liberals have historically sided with fascists, because fascists will never upend capitalism.
It makes tactical sense to partner with liberals in some contexts, like a national liberation struggle, and to put aside lesser contradictions to focus on the principal contradiction. It doesn't make sense to partner with liberals while under capitalism, especially not within the imperial core. The liberals in congress don't have a shared goal in stopping fascism.
What, a Zionist genocidaire giving a performative twenty five hour faux filibuster is not stopping fascism?
lol a few days after he did that speech he voted against blocking $8.8 billion in arms sales to Israel 🤡
Mate, the goal is to be idealistic. No one is perfect, but we want to strive for what's the best and hope we reach there some day.
Yes, but not at the cost of letting fascists win. Harm reduction is real.
Sure, harm reduction is good. That's what's been happening for the past century.
But you give the liberals an inch and they'll take a mile. They're only "liberals" as long as they're making money of others, as soon as something goes wrong they're first in line asking for government handouts. That's why the liberals will always prefer fascist over left wing idealists, because they're opportunists more than anything else. They'll backstab you and vote in fascists if they think they can make more money with them. That's exactly what's happening in the US.
We need new politics where hating on the LGBTQ+, immigrants, women, and putting money over the lives of few isn't considered a political leaning.
Yep. Which means we need to run for government positions in a way we can win
Yes, true that.
I'll even concede that you can find some common ground with them short term.
I have read a lot of marxist and anarchist theory. All marxist theories did is to confirm that the anarchists are right.