• JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Is this red baiting 5.0 now? I've lost track. This is partly a swipe at China, partly a swipe at labor, etc. We've become to comfortable with the word communism. The media is gonna start kicking up the fear factory.

        • emizeko [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          (I have never, for example, met a “tankie” in real life, but they yell at me on Twitter fairly often.)

          it never crosses the author's mind that being a communist party member is illegal and that being open about your communism will result in official and social consequences

          • AssadCurse [none/use name]
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            2 years ago

            Or that very few people this lib would consider a tankie self-identify as a tankie, or that due to their upper class nature they are unlikely to cross path with many communists…

            • emizeko [they/them]
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              2 years ago

              this lib would definitely respond to any accusations of being in a social bubble by talking about how diverse thier upper class friends are