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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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[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 28 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

[–] built_on_hope@hexbear.net 22 points 2 days ago (6 children)

In their minds, revolution has to be perfect and polite to be worth trying at all

[–] insurgentrat@hexbear.net 25 points 2 days ago (3 children)

God yes it pisses me off to no end. I often think about how invisible state violence is to half the chucklefucks.

Like chemical weapons, torture devices, beating, cages, screaming, and hitting. These things are used to stop someone taking surplus, discarded food from a bin but if that person says enough. If that person says "No, I will not suffer and die in indignity. I will kill you, you who would kill me" and like beats some cop to death or the person who would call the cops on them. They're the violent party? Really? The person that was content to subsist off of literal garbage if it meant peace.

No. Fuck that. We have tried asking nicely, I will always maintain that forgiveness be offered if people seek to change but when people horde wealth and use the machinery of law to deprive people of the necessities of life. Things they would often not even notice being gone. Yes I am willing to hurt them, and yes I am willing to accept that mistakes will happen as we try and halt this horrible orphan crushing machine.

What is the alternative? Children are dying. What good are ideals if they would have you sit by and do nothing while children are dying.

[–] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There were two "Reigns of Terror," if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the "horrors" of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.

[–] insurgentrat@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago

I have that quote saved in my phone to read at people when I'm feeling insufferable.

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