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[MaxTheFox]

I want that law to get shot down because I like it when the far-right gets censored online. It delegitimizes them.

Do you like when far-lefts get censored online?

Yes, if they are tankies.

[King Zultan]

Who needs social media when we have this forum, also I just realized that this the only place I talk to people since I don't really talk to anyone in RL.

Yeah, just seal of the entrance. Who needs sunlight?

Who needs sun light anyway, that's what I always say!


Also what the hell is a tankies?

[MaxTheFox]

Tankies = Stalinists, Maoists, etc.

[Strongpoint]

Tankie comes from the ancient times of 1956, when some British communists went "We are normal and those party members who support USSR moving tanks in Hungry are not and now we have a word to describe them."

Modern use of the word is more like - "not true left like us, just like Stalin and Mao who never were true left." At least it is the use I see the most.

[MaxTheFox]

Tankie comes from the ancient times of 1956, when some British communists went "We are normal and those party members who support USSR moving tanks in Hungry are not and now we have a word to describe them."

Modern use of the word is more like - "not true left like us, just like Stalin and Mao who never were true left." At least it is the use I see the most.

They are true left, just the wrong kind of left. I consider them ideological enemies just like the fascists, the ancaps, and any variety of Luddite or other reactionary.

[TD1]

It strikes me that everyone lacking a carbon copy of your beliefs is, to your mind, your ideological enemy.

[None]

Eh? I thought nobody liked tankies. Aren't they apologists for the authoritarian dictatorships under Mao and Stalin?

[Frumple]

Basically, yeah. They're largely the folks that end up supporting genocide or somethin' because it's carried out by an enemy of the west or someone claiming to be communist or whatev'. For a recent example, they're fairly likely to buy in or parrot the horseshit about russia's invasion of ukraine being a response to nato aggression or crap along those lines.

"No one likes them" is a pretty accurate take, they're (or at least their political et al positions) generally pretty reviled by... well, most reasonable people, even ones that are otherwise fairly politically extreme. Sometimes their heart's kinda' in the right place but holy shit do ideological blinders come into play real, real hard.

[EuchreJack]

The correct form of Marxism is those who idealize Chico, Harpo, and Groucho.

[Rolan7]

Yeah, as a leftist I resist tankie ideology (despite having some odd inclinations towards it) because it's intolerant.  I don't tolerate intolerance.  I'd personally love some benign authoritarian deity or singularity-style AI, but I've seen enough history to know that neo-Stalinists would end up putting all us other lefties in gulag.  Again.

It's kinda like how conservatives and fascists are both right-wing, but will never work together again after WW2.  Conservatives have deeply held ideals about liberty, and the fascists would inevitably use populism and fear to core out the conservative party from the inside.  Again.

yup, so glad the US Republican establishment would never risk repeating that history

[MaxTheFox]

It strikes me that everyone lacking a carbon copy of your beliefs is, to your mind, your ideological enemy.

How dare I hate people who support genocide and totalitarianism!

And no, not really. Liberals are not ideological enemies. Socdems are not ideological enemies. Centrists are not ideological enemies. Moderate conservatives are not ideological enemies. Anarchists are not ideological enemies. And so on, and so on.

[Starver]

The correct form of Marxism is those who idealize Chico, Harpo, and Groucho.

I'm an avowed Zeppoista, personally.

(What's that, Harpo supporters..? Sorry, I can't hear you!)

[Strongpoint]

I will die on the hill that left\right labels are silly for everyday use, especially when we talk about views of individuals and not about parties\movements

I know people who put me firmly in the far-left camp simply because I am an atheist and\or openly oppose homophobes\racists

[Starver]

Or is it because you're left-leaning in the way you type... You always use \ instead of /, I think...

((Sorry, two jokey responses in a row from me. And my onscreen keyboard hides "/” in an extended-punctuation click-layer, whilst the "\" is just a long-press off the alphanumeric layout. For no obvious, or obviously reconfigurable, reason...))

[EuchreJack]

"I belong to most hated, most despised, least supported political ideology: I am a moderate."
-Probably all those poor moderates that get caught in the crossfire