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[–] Live_Teaching3699@lemmygrad.ml 77 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Jokes on them it only pushed me onto here, where saying mean things about zionists won't get you permabanned.

[–] stink@lemmygrad.ml 53 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I came here over a year ago after telling an IOF soldier to kill himself on reddit

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thank you for your service

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 1 month ago

The only Americans who deserve this gratitude.

[–] Live_Teaching3699@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 1 month ago

Based hahaha

[–] 666@lemmygrad.ml 44 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I was banned for "holodomor denial" lmao.

[–] Live_Teaching3699@lemmygrad.ml 43 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Don't you know the ukrainian communist party did a genocide against the ukranians just for being ukrainian? There was nothing else going on during this period. There were no external factors to speak of. Lack of industrial equipment, underdeveloped communication lines, crop failures, Kulak terrorism, western gold and oil embargo, all woke leftist conspiracies. Don't look at export data from the time either, that's woke lies as well.

[–] 666@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 1 month ago

my grain was so woke I burnt it. Why are communists so mad?

[–] 666@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

fucking tankies, wokies want you to think Ukrainian nationalists and every other white nationalist should be fucking shot?

[–] Fidels_Beard@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago

It's funny because I was banned because I told a Zionist that all settlers are valid targets whilst he was denying the Palestinian genocide.

Funny how no Zionists ever get banned for genocide denial eh?

[–] TheGreatSpoon@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

where saying mean things about zionists won't get you permabanned.

You're not even exaggerating. I got permabanned literally because I said I oppose genocidal ideologies on a post about Israel (the ban got reversed after an appeal, but still).

And yet somehow 'tankies' are the unhinged violent ones lmao

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I got legit suspended for 3 days after mentioning the 'kill the boer' song under a post about apartheid era South Africa.😂

[–] Malkhodr@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 1 month ago

My mom loves that song ever since I showed it to her.

[–] AxH@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Noticed the subreddit was banned, and couldn't figure out where to find any info. Totally forgot that I even have an account on here... Oh well, I shouldn't spend too much time on Reddit anyways. Maybe I'll stick around here instead, it's less likely to get reactionaries joining the conversation anyways, which can only be a net benefit.

[–] Jarmund@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

mods who moderated r/thedeprogram will be posting updates and information in r/TankieTheDeprogram

[–] AxH@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 month ago

That's cool, though in all honesty I could really use some less reddit in my life. So at least to me it's a blessing in disguise.

[–] Lanterne@lemmygrad.ml 67 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Charlie Kirk incident really showed how many so called "leftists" in these online spaces are actually just closet liberals. I would say the number is about 90%. It's very clear that the vast majority of Americans do not give a fuck about anyone's suffering unless it either affects them personally or offends their precious sensibilities. They harbor a sort of Bellamyite delusion that by doing absolutely nothing, they will beat the fascists and achieve utopia.

[–] reverendz@lemmygrad.ml 38 points 1 month ago (5 children)

What absolutely baffles me is: how TF does anyone who purports to be a leftist say they don't support tankies?

Exactly.. how does a socialist, communist or anarchist think revolution will happen?

Revolution via the ballot box is by far the rarest form of socialist uprising and can anyone provide an example of communists taking power that did NOT involve violent struggle?

I'm not advocating for violence but, pacifism as an absolute moral precept is a joke. If you listen to liberals, you'd believe that it was solely MLKs and Gandhi's peaceful ways that brought about change. History shows completely the opposite, but is it any wonder that the West lionizes "peaceful protest" while strongly admonishing any form of direct action?

[–] Lanterne@lemmygrad.ml 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Exactly… how does a socialist, communist or anarchist think revolution will happen?

This is what I mean by the Bellamyite delusion. He essentially believed that the transition from capitalism to socialism would not only be peaceful, but natural. The people can just sit on their asses and wait until the capitalists are done consuming themselves. That is the ghost that haunted American progressive movements for the last hundred years. They don't believe in revolutions; their ideal form of government is a momentary retreat from capitalism (i.e. New Deal era) or Nordic welfare capitalism, both of which are utterly impossible to achieve in modern US. These people have good hearts, but it just seems impossible to wake them up from establishment slop.

[–] reverendz@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You are spot on.

Also, the Nordic model is disintegrating in real time. Much like the new deal, any concessions won from the capitalist class can be rolled back or negated without a dictatorship of the proletariat.

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 month ago

Bozos are about to lose their universal healthcare and pension after their governments increase the NATO funding.

[–] m532@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 month ago

They don't have good hearts, they're white supremacists

[–] RedMenace@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Rosa Talks about it in Reform or Revolution in a way I always quote at social democrats because it's both funny and true:

Fourier’s scheme of changing, by means of a system of phalansteries, the water of all the seas into tasty lemonade was surely a fantastic idea. But Bernstein, proposing to change the sea of capitalist bitterness into a sea of socialist sweetness, by progressively pouring into it bottles of social reformist lemonade, presents an idea that is merely more insipid but no less fantastic.

It's still true a century later and SocDems (I include DemSocs in this category too) are no more radical.

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[–] Aria@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 month ago

If you listen to liberals, you’d believe that it was solely MLKs and Gandhi’s peaceful ways that brought about change.

NED colour revolutions are always the most disproportionately violent, and they support the lot of them.

[–] salac1337@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i always hope for a peaceful revolution at the ballot box and actively work towards that even though i dont think it will happen. it would be the best outcome but i always assume that material conditions will worsen while left wing parliamentary movements will be kept down. if the material conditions get bad enough there may be an uprising but that is a cointoss if it will be left or right so whichever way it goes we gotta educate people

[–] reverendz@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 1 month ago

The robber barons who own literally most of the wealth in this world will never allow anything like the new deal to happen ever again.

Only the existence of the USSR and the very real communist/socialist movement in the west in the early 20th century could wring a dimes worth of social care from the grip of the gilded class.

And even then, it was a bloody struggle. History points to the US only getting involved in the European theater in ww2 when it looked like the soviets were going to win and take the loot.

Folks point to “lend lease” but it was far less important than what America claims.

At any rate, there’s a snowballs chance in hell of even a democratic socialist revolution at the ballot box. They’re pulling out the stops to prevent a dem-socialist mayor in one city. It would be an all out assault for anything more. Hell, they’ll just have folks killed before they let that happen.

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[–] darkernations@lemmygrad.ml 55 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The privilege of idealism means never having to dirty one's hands enough against the material world of fascism and colonisation. It's being against the genocide without an ounce of real support for the resistance. In the face of such a dominant and destructive status quo such a neutrality and call for "peace" is effectively tacit support for the oppressors and their collaborators.

We should never accept their liberal definition of peace will lead to the emancipation of humankind.

Welcome fellow comrades.

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 52 points 1 month ago (1 children)

sub that bootlicks Stalin and the ccp

Bootlicking means being servile to your oppressor, i.e. the boot above your face. Do they think Stalin and China are oppressing us?

[–] AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do they think Stalin and China are oppressing us?

Yes.

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

The NKVD banned r/chapotraphouse!

[–] JucheNecromancer01@lemmygrad.ml 39 points 1 month ago (5 children)

SocDems are not your friends. Anarchists are not your friends. DemSocs are not your friends. Do not trust the liberals; they will betray you.

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Whoa now! Easy on the anarchist friendly fire. I disagree with them on some of the post-revolution fundamentals, but right now in Hell World they're getting some good shit done. That's all right in my books.

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago

Well, there's no space for any left unity or protection there.

If hexbear.net is ML de facto, then lemmygrad.ml has always been ML de jure and de facto...

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 month ago

Yes, comrade.

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[–] Verenand@lemmygrad.ml 35 points 1 month ago

Damn they give convincing arguments to commit red terror and repressions

[–] burlemarx@lemmygrad.ml 34 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I generally don't care about what internet anarchist talk about... They are insignificant. I would say they spend more time having beef with other socialists than building anything useful.

[–] GlueBear@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 month ago

They literally couldn't even if they tried tho

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 month ago
[–] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 28 points 1 month ago

Your first clue is that they're on reddit-logo

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago

Yer part of the dread fleet nowpirate-jammin

[–] Yee@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 1 month ago

Reddit moment fasho

[–] soldieroflenin@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 1 month ago

First i was offended about labeling all western leftists as counterrevolutionaries, but more i read comments and sources i see how this is warranted. There are too many liberals larping leftists, trotskyists and revisiniosts among "left" in wests. But don't worry comrades. Luckily there still exists true marxists-leninists groups and inviduals in west too that are proud about being called tankie.

[–] Ilikecats@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 1 month ago

These people defend capitalism the way a victim defends their abuser.

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Are these all from r/SubredditDrama?

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