https://twitter.com/BotTheFlag/status/1588190764705652737
Kinda sucks that this artist (Red and Black Salamander) never grew past their 2018 Bernie left phase, I used to like their stuff.
I don't think I've ever seen tankies complain about "globalism" tho. The only people who talk about it is right-wingers who came up with the term and some dumbass neolibs who embraced it fow some reason
the comic is a strawman made in the authors delusions because the comic author doesnt talk to real people and just shitposts against other leftists. Just another liberal pretending to be an anarchist.
Isn't this the same guy who was drawing cartoons crying about "idpol" back when that was popular?
i think its probably about the larouchites, and most radlibs probably think all communists & anarchists who aren't also radlibs are the same way
To understand R&B Salamander's brainworms one has to go back through their catalog and see their constant "tankie = MAGA" strawmanning and their liberal imperialist understanding of the ukraine conflict
I don’t think I’ve ever seen tankies complain about “globalism” tho.
To the neoliberal, "globalism" and "imperialism" are the same critique.
fucking christ, that twitter thread is a bunch of people who think the internet is real life. go ask people in real life about nazbols and tankies, they won't know what the fuck youre talking about.
If I am ever lined up against the wall and shot, I’m gonna be pissed about being in the same line as Twitter liberals
it is truly sad how often a constantly-online anarchist sounds like a liberal. at least outside of hexbear. i feel like i never have that issue with commies/socialists.
As someone whose affinity group irl is mostly anarchists, I feel like anarchists on Twitter are just significantly more centrist than anarchists irl
anarchists with social skills arent running around in public screaming "tankies!!1" while everyone ignores them.
I know a bunch of anarchists IRL and they only slightly rib me and take some ribbing back about our ideological differences. It's more fun to talk about destroying our shared enemies and admitting just going with what works is the best strategy, not being too ideologically pure.
Same here, I know MLS, demsocs, anarchists, etc. We all mostly get along and as you said anytime we make digs about one ideology or another it's always mostly in jest or good faith criticism.
just makes me think even more and more any "anarchist" promoting leftist infighting is either actually a liberal and doesnt know it or works for a 3 letter agency.
Yep, I think anarchists have definitely nailed down the street politics that the communists have lost over the past century. Any socialist movement in the west will rely heavy anarchist organizing for conflict and radicalized trade unions that will probably end up shifting more towards what we'd call ML though likely in a newer form.
The old divides are gone, AES has shown a thousand possible pathways to development and maintenance of a revolutionary state and in the end whatever happens will inevitably come from the conditions of the revolution and the conditions of the economy in the revolutionary state.
Like for one, who is always at the forefront in the US when some cop cars get torched for doing a homeless camp sweep, or the majority of people out there feeding people in orgs like FNB? I have respect for ML comrades and I'm not by any stretch saying they don't do good work like that too, but whenever I see people say shit like, "oh anarchists never had a successful revolution" I'm like ok get out here with us then, come work in the kitchen, come put your ass on the line too. And at the same time I see people saying shit like "the MLs just want power and they are going to murder anarchists" like we somehow have to play out the same exact hundred year old ideological beefs.
It's all terminally online LARP bullshit and it's so damn frustrating.
“First they came for the Twitter shitlibs, and I did not speak out, because I hated those assholes”
that twitter thread is a bunch of people who think the internet is real life
When you're terminally online and interacting exclusively with other terminally online folks...
I don’t even understand the stereotype. “Globalists” is a right wing dogwhistle for “jews”. I’ve never heard leftists use the term derogatorily. If we wanna talk shit about western hegemony or NATO, we use those terms directly.
There actually used to be a coherent leftist stance against "globalization" in the 90s. Like lots of protest movements, but that was much more focused on opposing things like corporate personhood, NAFTA, international debt schemes, stuff like that. I remember being in leftist chatrooms in like 2003 and they were talking about "globalism" but they meant the IMF. Leftists now seem to prefer to talk about that stuff in a broader context of imperialism.
Anyone now though using the term in a derogatory way is a deranged conspiracy theorist talking about Jews or they want a fascist world of nationality based on race.
anti-Globalization and the "Globalism" that has become a widely used term on the right in the last few years should be held distinct. The right doesn't use the term "Globalization" as far as I know.
The Battle of Seattle. Do you all really have memories that short? Seattle burned over NAFTA. Jello Biafra had an album called "No to WTO" or something like that.
I just learned about this for the first time. Thanks comrade!
For reading about scared little piggies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Seattle_WTO_protests
One of the biggest aftershocks of Seattle was the development of the "Miami Method" that US regime security forces use to suppress dissent and political organizing to this day, albeit with signifcant development since 2000.
I think a lot of posters here are too young to remember it comrade. Certainly the artist is too.
The Battle of Seattle was a huge turning point in the history of social and political repression in the US. It scared the shit out of US regime forces and spurred the development of the "Miami method" of political repression, which gradually evolved in to the tactics that US police us to crush pro-democracy movements today.
The point being that the left was against this sort of thing before the right was. 20 years before Trump.
as people's minister for justice of transland, i swear to you these misguided souls will be re-educated immediately
Trans people are disproprotionately comrades compared to cis people, but there's still some real libs on trans twitter
"wow what a situation we're in. is it republicans faults? Democrats? No, its the group that has no power in the current system. They are to blame."
It's meant to be an updated Andy Capp in my opinion, Andy Capp was probably more left than this idiot though.
i'm not going to try to be kind, this style repulses me for some reason. like, lines too thick for this level of detail, there's a gracelessness to it, there's some lack of grounding, i want tear it apart, it doesnt breath to me, like an insect failing to molt
Libs crying crocodile tears for literal nazis and far right religious extremists will never cease to piss me off immensely
"Whats satire?"
"It's a kind of humor that's not funny."
"Humor? What is that."
"It's something that's funny."
"oh. Well then it's definitely not that."
Love to talk to the guy who doesn't know "humor" but does know "funny".
It is. It's R&B Salamander satiring what they think "Tankies" think
Wait what, I thought the comic was mocking American patsoc types, why are all the neolibs liking the tweet? Is it supposed to be unironic lmao
I didn't ever like them but just because I don't like their artstyle
R&B Salamander really shits the bed with his constant tankie strawman in his comics. It's a shame. a few of his cartoons are bangers but then he spills way too much ink on the artistic equivalent of killing Rosa
