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What is with the lemmy community's deep fear or tankies? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 days ago by insurgentrat@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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There's dozens or harassment communities, if you say anything that's not pure, weapons grade condemnation of anything USSR or AES nuts accusations start getting levelled.

Internet communists have to be like the most irrelevant political bloc in the world. Even if you take the stance that everyone is hoping for a return of purges that's still just a completely irrelevant group. Most people I've seen being accused of tankyness is are more nuanced.

Wtf is going on. I thought it would settle down after the reddit migration faded.

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[–] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 41 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (17 children)

I think it's a lot simpler than most people here believe: people in Lemmy love the West and they see tankies as people who hate the West. It's nothing more complicated than that. They do not hate fascists in the same way because fascists do not hate the West.

I think this is a very good insight! It seems anytime I interact with someone who complains about "tankies" it goes one of two ways: either A) they go full frothingfash about how West is Best, usually dressed up in Liberalism in a flimsy attempt to hide their racism and chauvinism (which are so intense they leak through anyway), or B) I'm removing B because I don't want to get too into sectarianism, but I'm frustrated that radlibs seem to have been successfully co-opting anarchist terms over the last decade in order to cosplay as radicals while still defending the system that gives them some crumbs of comfort.

[–] insurgentrat@hexbear.net 31 points 2 days ago (16 children)

I have very deep anarchist sympathies, but often find myself at odds with people who seem to think anarchism means the future is luxury space communism and lives of idleness. Not, in reality, surrendering a lot of the trinkets we can only have as they are extracted by empire. Accepting that life will be full of hard and often unpleasant labour but that we will be emotionally richer and the result will be closer to justice.

Also that to get there we're gonna have to be violent, and the thing about violence is people get hurt.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 29 points 2 days ago (12 children)

I definitely have no patience for the radlib types that I've been seeing browbeating and tut tutting leftists for wanting a revolution. "Don't you know a revolution would hurt disabled people?" "Oh so I guess we just won't do anything until the glorious revolution?" etc etc

[–] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

"Don't you know a revolution would hurt disabled people?"

Bold of them to say this when Canada's doing MAID, also known as Literally Aktion T4 But Neoliberal.

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