Yes, for example, me an anarcho-communist who thinks western governments are generally terrible. But ALSO thinks that governments like Russia and China are absolutely terrible and committing different forms of genocide, am definitely on a CIA payroll right? That only makes sense?
This from the group who's intellectual ancestors shot at leftists like you and me before they shot the Czar.
"'Tankie' is just a slur for people you don't like". No, it's a term for people that have a definition of imperialism so bad that it doesn't cover the Soviet Union literally driving tanks into another country.
Having lived much of my life in those European countries that are romanticised (Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Netherlands)…
I really think they are terrible. Like they are obviously better than Putin’s Russia or Trump’s America. But they are still really bad.
I don’t think I can have a favourite government. I don’t know enough about the country for this to be a serious answer, but perhaps something like Costa Rica.
Remember how russia got completely surprised by Ukraine's collectivism and national identity?
Yeah, if one does actual psyops and mass propaganda at national level, you can present and see your enemy through a similar mindset (yes, goes for usa and china bs as well).
The most hilarious thing was a circlejerk convincing dummies there is a grassroot movement between polish kids in being interested in russia, the language and communism.
Bitch gtfo. Any kid who would get caught with this shit would get smacked in the head at light speed.
Yes, there is such thing. But ran by russian troll farms. What was proven by journalists, ngos as well as eu intel agencies.
Of course the most legitimate account is PolandIsAStateOf...
Whoever is running that account does not use polish ever.
Being called a single issue voter for caring about Palestinian children at all and a tankie for caring about economic liberation certainly would make this meme seem accurate.
I had some mouth breathing chuds on Discord accuse me of being a CIA psyop because I didn’t want to play a game with EAC (a specific kind of kernel level anticheat) yes, being anti spyware makes me a spook, cmon guys are you even trying 🙄
Meanwhile I had the opposite reaction. "Man, I really hope this leftist reddit diaspora is at least passingly familiar with some contemporary post-left theory from the last century and isn't just tankie brainrot..."
I'm not a psyop but I am definitely anti-communist. Communism is fuckin' stupid. Capitalism is out of control for sure, but I damn sure prefer it to any form of communism that has ever existed on a nation-state level in the world. Signed, a lemmy dot world user.
Community property, community ownership of everything, and the kind of government that is required to enforce non-ownership of everything. Because in my experience when you let the community own something the dumbest bastards in town will just fuck it all up. Community ownership of everything only works when everybody is nice and considerate of others, but in the real world there are fucking idiots everywhere who don't care about the external world and others at all.
So for communism to work, you'd have to exile all of those idiots to somewhere else. Then you are Hitler 3.0 with mass deportations and camps all over again. There's no good answer to the inherent problems.
Can someone give me the rundown about why this is a thing? I've gotten called names and dismissed in political discussion because of the domain, but I'm literally only here because it's what Boost switched to when the Reddit API pricing bullshit happened.
As far as why they shit on .world? Because it's the biggest instance that generally won't tolerate their crap as far as posting of their favored propaganda goes anyways (wish .world would just defed from them already like the rest of the triad)