90% of her twitter is complaining about tankies and the uyghurs and the authoritarianism

someone in the comments says "im cuban and castro was not a real communist"

retweeted something about how can china eradicate poverty when people in hong kong live in tiny homes

I dunno, if the person with the most similar political development on Youtube was freaking Shoe0nhead, that would probably make me want to rethink my beliefs.

Like, there's non-tankie leftists online like hbomb, philosophytube, big joel, the chapos, contrapoints, hasanabi, but they talk about actual fucking left-wing ideals, the injustices in the present day and what could be done to fix them. They don't turn their entire online presence into "im one of the good lefties, not like these evil tankies, im one of the good and reasonable ones"

  • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    They do this because it is a very lucrative grift. Right wingers love being told they are great and will throw huge amounts of money to anyone who coddles them. The "I used to be a leftist but the left wing was too crazy" grift is a popular one.

    • ButtBidet [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I used to be part of this cult called Hexbear. They bullied me for my Western chauvinistic beliefs, and kept sending me pig testicles with poop on it. Now I realise that unchecked Western military aggression is the correct way.

      I'm getting ready to quit my job.