Because I'm not a lib

The context to this is saying about how they're not a fan of the subreddit LeftWingMaleAdvocates, which is a bad subreddit, it's mostly just anti-feminist and basically just MRA, but they just call themselves left-wing. Most of their "left-wing" stuff is actually just "classical liberal" talking points, so they are bad, but calling them tankie is ridiculous.

  • Nakoichi [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Happens to me all the time lol

    Every time I have a discussion about history with American leftists (actual leftists doing good praxis but still having some brainworms) I have to preface everything with "I'm an anarchist but"

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Oh man, I work with Food not Bombs sometimes and they're the sweetest people I've ever met and doing the best work ever. Some of them though are so obsessed with the supposed lurking threat of tankies everywhere it's hard to talk with them outside of very immediate praxis. They even call American police "tankies" sometimes. One time a comrade called a public library a tankie facility because it had books by Marx inside.

      I'd still take these comrades over any liberal though. I'd die for them and that's more important

      • MC_Kublai [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        One time a comrade called a public library a tankie facility because it had books by Marx inside

        comrade

        comrade

        :thonk:

        • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          I mean yeah he's my friend and does a lot of work for homeless people but he's got a bit of American brainworms

      • Nakoichi [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah I've had similar experiences, funny enough they would call Keith McHenry one of the founders of their org a tankie when he is very much not one, just has good takes on imperialism.\

        (unfortunately he also has some antivaxx brainworms last I talked to him)