Silverstrings @ Silverstrings @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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If they're tankies yeah.

No one is suggesting that the states the authoritarian communists replaced were good or functional, just that they failed to actually uplift and make people's lives better. There's nothing to admire about one oppressive state being replaced by another.

Yo I wasn't expecting to randomly see you here, great work on the Deus Ex randomizer!

There are an infinite variety of flavors of socialism, at some point you gotta learn to find folks you don't disagree with on anything too important. In my experience anarchists are generally chill.

Literally doing the "so much for the tolerant left" shtick.

The fundamental problem of tankies is that they forget the whole point of socialism is making people's lives better, not getting revenge on the hated capitalists. If you create an oppressive hellscape in the process of destroying capitalism then you've failed.

If you're in a position where you can freely oppress the capitalist class then you've already supplanted them and become the capitalist class.

I'll put my name forward as a potential mod but whoever you pick, just please for the love of god make sure they aren't a tankie. You can usually sus them out by asking about the holodomor or the molotov-ribbentrop pact.

I really hate how ya'll deliberately conflate tankies and all socialism/communism, and then conflate anyone being opposed to those concepts as inherently being a fascist.

Concrete views like the idea that the government being able to jail dissenters at will is bad? That unlimited state power inevitably leads to authoritarianism? That labeling yourself socialist doesn't necessarily mean you're actually a socialist state?

ITT: a bunch of lying ideologues that deny basic historical realities like the deliberate engineering of the holodomor or the brutal repression of dissent in soviet states

To tankies fascist means opposing whatever flavor of authoritarian "communism" they prefer regardless of the reasons or context. This conveniently allows any number of pogroms, mass slaughters or engineered famines to be reframed as anti-fascist action, rather than a brutal expression of state power at the expense of the working class.

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Eat shit.

I don't like repressive authoritarian governments or their defenders. Go fuck yourself.

The Soviets were nothing but fascists with a thin coating of leftist aesthetic, just like you.

If you support the Soviet Union you're a really shit anti-fascist.

Then why are you defending totalitarian regimes?

Tankies on their way to explain how the mass murder of political dissidents isn't technically genocide. Very smart, you definitely don't sound at all like a fucking psychopath.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Operation_of_the_NKVD

Turns out you can say anyone didn't commit genocide if you just ignore history.