and we all know what reddit mods do.
cubedsteaks
joined 2 years ago
I am legit trying to figure out why the apologists aren’t getting banned
You know, I would like to know this too. I sure as hell don't want to interact with those people.
Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to communists who express support for one-party communist regimes that are associated with Marxism–Leninism, whether contemporary or historical. It is commonly used by anti-authoritarian leftists, including anarchists, libertarian socialists, left communists, democratic socialists, and reformists to criticise Leninism, although the term has seen increasing use by liberals and right‐wing factions as well.
this is what I've been going by cause I had to look it up as no one can be confirmed to give a straight forward answer on here that I've seen.
Never seen terms like “tankie” until I came here
I mentioned this once and then someone became super unhinged at me.
I mentioned that someone became super unhinged at me and that person seemed okay at first but then started talking down to me about politics in general.
It's fucking weird here sometimes and I couldn't be further removed from anything "tankie" related but random lemmy users will still screech it at me.
Talked to some knob the other day who was talking about ruling his small business with, and I quote "an iron fist"
Thankfully that's not a common interaction but I do notice more hostile folks recently.
I actually keep seeing other repost bots show up
Me too. I was bummed because I had already blocked one and then another one popped up. For places I was already subscribed to that didn't seem to be bot posts before.
My week just started cause I work Mon-Fri and I'm super nervous for tomorrow cause I have a project I have to do with someone I am not use to working with.
I'm gonna go get an edible after work though and hopefully I run into my crush.
Of course I remember the “meme faith” thing that was happening in 2016 and it seemed like it really worked. All those alt right pepe memes infesting everything and they picked Trump as the focus
Oh I'm talking about waay waaaay before 2016. I'm talking 2008. They were looking for a new hitler.
What Trump did was unprecedented
I can't agree because there is evidence of Trump talking about running for office since the 90's. We should have seen this coming but any time it was talked about, it was laughed off and ignored.
I live in a liberal and wealthy area of a red state. I make good money, live comfortably, and have a diverse community of people available to me. All sorts of recreation, social events, etc.
I live in a liberal area of a blue state. I make okay money and live kind of comfortable but not really and I miss out on a lot of things due to racism and having to combat culture wars because of who I am as a person.
So I'm feeling the disintegration. I get the brunt of it dealt to me first hand. People fucking hate me because I am who I am.
That being said -
Economic reforms. Large investments in infrastructure. A real Green New Deal - trillions of dollars spent building all sorts of modern infrastructure would require lots of labor. Build high speed rail all over America. Start programs that give companies incentive to return manufacturing jobs to the US.
I agree with this. I agree with raising minimum wage and universal healthcare - I'm even for universal basic income. I agree with a lot of what you are saying and I think it would help a lot of people.
Seriously, it’s not a coincidence fascism came about right after the Great Depression
I get that too. It's history and you can't argue against it.
But I'm telling you about a current enemy and its one I know very well - in my early 20s you could easily have lumped me in with that same group of people. I'm not anymore but I definitely was.
And even when I was growing as a person and slowly removing those ideologies on my own from myself.. I still interacted with people who are never going to stop being that way.
I don't think its all insecurity. I think some of it is just as simple as pure hatred. I'm telling you. They get off it. I don't know how anyone would change their mind when they totally want someone to go out of their way to try and change their mind. They want someone like you to try and get rid of their insecurity so they can laugh at the fact that you tried.
How do you change someone like that? How do you help someone like that?
The only reason I changed is cause I chose to do that on my own.
Yeah, I wasn't taking issue. I was providing information.
To me, she was awful for ripping someone off and then the icing on the shit cake is that she's a terf as well.
So I feel very validated in knowing that I was always right about what a piece of absolute trash she is. And always was. Don't know why anyone would want to read some rip off hack book lol
The main thing I’m trying to say is these people historically were blue
How do you know that? What are you basing that off of?
I mean, I have an example of what you're talking about but its the only thing I can think of where I'm like, yeah I know for sure that was the case. And only feel comfortable saying that because there is recorded evidence of someone stating that they use to be a democratic, and then switched to vote for Bush who ran as a republican.
And as for the alt right stuff - I only feel comfortable saying what I said about that because I spent several years of my early 20's being really misguided and I was knee deep in that shit.
Trump talked about running for president since like the 90's so that was already out there as information. The alt right groups were looking for a "new hitler" as they put it and eventually pushed for Trump. They did this through social engineering. Over the course of several years.
People laugh when I talk about this but it is a real thing that happened.
In your perspective, you’re witnessing the disintegration of America.
It's been disintegrating for awhile now.
You can’t just chalk this all up to gullibility.
I'm not. Both things are at play here.
If people were having happy stable lives where their needs were being met financially and emotionally, they wouldn’t vote for these proto-fascists
Again. How do you meet the needs of people who are filled with hatred? I'm genuinely asking since you keep bringing this up.
lol even mods don't follow rules on reddit and there are private subs where people do whatever the hell they want.