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[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (888 children)

This is really sad. They’re self selecting into isolation. That’s an incredibly dangerous thing to do. It leaves you vulnerable and miserable and trapped within whatever ideology or neurosis caused you to choose to separate. I hope they manage to break out.

Edit: you’re really not disagreeing by acting in a mentally unhealthy manner

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] jimmy90@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

...and fundamentalism

whenever the fantasy world you've constructed comes in contact with the real world it breaks and causes conflict

you lash out in protest from time to time and get no-where because you're not changing the actual system in which you live

at least these folks can larp together and depress their comrades in their online bubbles

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Castro was a tyrant. Like, you could agree some of his social policies were good and he did reduce some of the inequality between rich and poor, but he was mostly an authoritarian piece of shit despite that.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

hes responsible for the wealthy landowners that fled to florida, that become sole cuban conservatives for the gop. I dont think these tankies actually read up on the history of these leaders.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

of course they don't. if they did, they wouldn't be praising mao, NK or Stalin so much

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

i feel like these tankies could be very young,

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[–] menas@lemmy.wtf 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Unionize is important, but the employer is the last one to tell. I don't understand why show off in front of him, without a section to back you. Stop being martyr, you will convince no one to suffer like you do.

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because tankies aren't there to help anyone. Telling them what they're going to do is just to feed into their power fantasies. These people would be the ones sending people to camps, not helping shit, because they know better and want to be the leaders.

AKA these people are just the poor versions of dictators and CEOs.

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[–] crazycraw@crazypeople.online 18 points 1 week ago

"tell me comrade, what good is communism if no one will commune with you."

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wow, they're even proud incels like the fascists they hate. It's crazy they have so much in common.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

hatecels!!!

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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

One more thing they have in common with the MAGA people.

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's a little thing called 'natural selection'.

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[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Fun fact: if Antiyanks floods a thread with spam as he did here, just block his account. All of those comments will vanish, completely wasting the time he spent making thousands of comments. What a loser! Lmao

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (7 children)

lol this is definitely a sore topic for him

he's ranted about his lack of relationships before

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[–] Emopunker@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I thought tankies were anti-union, because "you don't need a union when you got the party" or something.

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