I'm trans and I really don't want to federated with these people if their mods are defending the -tard suffix and they aren't getting de-modded and banned. I also don't want to be federated with them if they ban critiquing western chauvinism.
Someone who is an admin and with more of a level head than me RN please talk to their admins about it.
"Hexbear is like the Donald" - an instance blocking comments that are critical of their bigoted content
It really just boils down to "this instance makes me uncomfortable, so it is exactly like this other thing that makes me uncomfortable."
They really just live in a world of empty reaction to things, no analysis.
The whole thought terminating "tankie" cliche is incredibly effective at shutting down any critical understanding of politics outside the overton window.
I'm just glad I became a "tankie" before that particular thought terminating cliche became commonplace. A lot of the more recent anti-communist stuff probably would've worked on me really well back when I was a shitlib.
You might say they are reactionaries
The weirdest part about people calling us fascists is that a core component of fascism is anti-communism
Calling tankies fash is right out of the Nazi playbook and just comes across as the same dumb shit as right-wingers saying "Antifa are the real fascists!"
Tankies are bad / Woke are bad
Antifa are fascists / Communists are fascists
Both groups of liberals use exactly the same tactics of thought-terminating cliches when attacking leftwards. The conservative liberals do it to the democrat liberals and they then do it to us.
Ahh, but don't you see: tankies aren't real communists. 🤓
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I do believe that there is a large swath of Western anarchists who aren't active. By active I mean antifascist action in terms of memories or protests, squatting places, food not bombs, creating autonomous or communal spaces, helping labour fights, supporting our 2SLQTBAG allies or alike. This means they are objectively and effectively passive.
If however they start a couple of those things and get theory they often get better, but then they often switch alignments and become anarcho-communist, communalist or alike or different. Or they get good skills. At least some of that was true for me at some point in time.
i challenge you to define tankie beyond "person who disagrees with the West's foreign policy"
Liberals and their political analysis not extending past the point of crafting similes, name a more iconic duo. I'll wait.
Honestly, so much lib bullshit is just "Donald Trump is like Voldemort and Hillary Clinton is like Hermione..." and then they list what they like/dislike about those characters in a comparative fashion and that's all the analysis they can muster.
Or they say shit like Putin is like Hitler because Hitler Lebensraum and Putin also expanded Russia via imperialism. Plus here's a picture of Putin with a Hitler moustache to make my argument more compelling.
As if there aren't countless examples of countries engaging in imperialism and expansionism and as if that isn't low-key Nazi apologism to reduce the primary characteristic of Nazi Germany to just "expansionism" at the expense of ignoring all the other, far more egregious, things that characterised Nazi Germany.
All this while they downplay concerns people have about actual Nazism in Ukraine. I wonder how long it will take before they expand this thought-terminating stuff to encompass any anti-nazi sentiment.
"Bro, the OUN, Right Sector, C14, Azov Battalion, Patriot of Ukraine, Svoboda, Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists, Governmental Initiative of Yarosh, National Corps, People's Front, and Batkivshchyna Battalion aren't actually fascists though.
They're just conservative nationalists, bro. It's completely different. Trust me bro - I read the news!"
Evergreen skit from an otherwise pretty lib comedy outlet
"And even if they were it doesn't matter because they have only a tiny part of the parliament.
"And anyway, all of the fascist leaders within Azov aren't in that brigade anymore."
And where did the fascist Azov leaders go exactly, Zelensky?
Look at me Zelensky...
yeah i mean, it's not like they're even national socialists so how could the be fascist nazis?
in libspeak socialism IS fascism because german party name
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