https://hexbear.net/comment/3772604
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Congratulations comrade, you may now proceed with your Lemmygrad appliaction. We are looking forward to your posts.
I mean I kind of am since I am helping build a new party centered on decolonial Marxism but I don't think that is what they are talking about
are you the person running that account? if so god speed to your mental health comrade those patsocs are vile
well let them know they've got comrades on hexbear/lemmygrad rooting for them (if they even know what those are lol)
lol yeah they do, my main role in the org is internet liaison/terminally online genX guy.
I'd like to subscribe hexbear to your newsletter. we need more posts about these on the ground efforts.
Imo when you combine the two simcerely you end up with CLR James or Franz Fanon: nationalists with a cautious and ambivalent relationship to nationalism.
If you are from 1973 then holy based :07:
It's hard to imagine anyone this cool whose my father's age, all of them suck.
i think it's a reference to Wounded Knee but Nakoichi might also be a boomer idk.
lol compared to most people on here I am a boomer I guess, but yes you are correct it is a reference to Wounded Knee.
We were all wounded at Wounded Knee
Fun fact this is the same band that is used in Guardians of the Galaxy with the song Come And Get Your Love
The initial drum beat is also the same BPM as traditional indigenous drumming played during ceremonies and the base line picks that up and carries through the whole song.
There are definitely cool people from then and before, my dad and my stepdad (who is Navajo) are a couple of them.
That's an interesting thing to find out about, banger song. However, I'm from Poland. What happened at Wounded Knee?
Ah fuck hate to ruin your day like this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Massacre
I'm sorry for reacting with an emoji. But it really is the only way I can portray my feelings after learning of this. Jesus fucking Christ.
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@ChunkaLuta1973
Account suspended
Twitter suspends accounts which violate the Twitter RulesSeems Twitter is against decolonial Marxism
lol yeah we have a new one. Sungmanitu gets too spicy sometimes, we've migrated control of our official twitter to a more collectivist approach. https://twitter.com/ChunkaLutaOrg
I still flip flop between ML and anarchism to be honest. I'm ML because of climate change time constraints but anarchist in heart.
Really what I care about is improving things. And I will use whatever toolbox seems to be the best option under the conditions in order to achieve that.
the centrist leftist take
Am I an ML? An anarchist? Who cares, I just wanna grill (the rich)
You joke but I genuinely feel like this most days. If anything is getting done we're gonna need to team up anyways.
A friend of mine always says "I'm an ML now so I can be an anarchist one day in the future"
I have been converted to third worldism by all the contradictions. Something global historical materialism something super exploitation.
I think third worldism is about to be ripped apart by climate change. We're going to see a very very rapid destabilisation occur from climate refugee movements numbering in the tens of millions. It took just thousands of Syrian refugees to provoke huge EU destabilisation that led to Brexit, Greece, Italy, far right movements, etc etc... What's going to happen when the numbers are in the millions is going to blow it out of the water.
This rapid destabilisation is going to create a lot of revolutionary events.
Won't that just accelerate fascism though? Though I guess you could apply the same argument to the third world as well, in terms of anti colonial nationalism that doesn't go anywhere.
Yes. But everything that creates revolutionary conditions also accelerates fascism. It will win in some places, but I'm also quite sure that it will lose in others. We can not change the fact that these conditions are coming so we can only figure out what we're going to do within them.
My belief is that we should be preparing for this situation so that we can act when it comes.
Yeah I would love for it to be possible for us to simply build our new world and show people a better way, but we are running out of time and more authoritarian measures are going to be necessary.
"more authoritarian measures are going to be necessary."
Welp, that's the gotcha for calling you 'tankie' according to these people.
Use state measures, and they would treat you as oriental orc with no sense... get crushed by authoritarians and they will publicly worship you while secretly celebrating a progressive defeat towards reaction...
Edit: I'm pro-Nakoichi, just to clarify...
it all depends on whether by "authoritarian" the liberals mean "classes, hierarchies, oppression, bigotry and exploitation" or if they simply mean "using violence to bring an end to classes, hierarchies, oppression, bigotry and exploitation." I find that they tend to mean the latter. Hence, I leave it to Engels:
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and also, oddly enough, Mark Twain:
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Engels? An essay titled "On Authority". Mark Twain? A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
It's a joke, because I initially thought it wouldn't allow me, due to a large waiting time. I eventually made an account of a similar name there later on...
We definitely need several conditions to change in the UK before anything revolutionary occurs I'm with you there. Some things are economic and some others could be pushed via some electoral policies, although I don't see a pathway to electoral policies with Starmer and the purge he pulled. A lot of union sentiment has improved, but translating into new union members? I'm not seeing it happen fast enough. Another issue is the misogyny and bigotry that currently exists among MLs in the UK, created by the bizarre attempt at allying themselves with terfs and appealing to the man down the pub. This has been created by tories posing as the bloke down the pub to appeal to reactionaries, and somehow MLs have bought it as the depiction of the average working class person of the UK which is just plain nonsense, they're trying to appeal to a caricature created by the bourgeoisie. Undoing this false mindset is very important to get MLs focused on the actually-vulnerable people, problem is that leadership in these parties is pushing it and there isn't any way to dislodge that leadership without massive entryism from lgbt people who have already almost all left those parties.
I view our struggle currently as less an adventurist revolutionary fantasy on the horizon like I think a lot of newer ML fall into
I don't think there is any problem with having a laser-focus on achieving revolution. It should be the question that guides all work we do, how our work contributes to future revolution, what prerequisites must be met, etc etc. While it's not available as an option right now we should be identifying prerequisites needed for it and working to achieve them.
Marxism-Leninism is a really good politics for being right about everything. Being right about everything is no fun when you're losing.
"tankie" has become such a pavlovian response to these people that the second they hear it they've decided they no longer need to consider anything this person might have to say. Like conservatives the second they hear something is "woke" and they throw a tantrum
It's kind of brilliant in a way. The brainworms prevent them from ever learning, because all it takes is a single concern troll saying "I think these people might be tankies" and they automatically shut down.
That's not true. Every once in a while they can be seen eating hot chip too.
I haven't come across any Anarchist theory that explicitly forbids tanks...
sorry fam the czech hussite protosocialists under jan zizka have that honor
though the quakers were pretty inspired by certain sects of hussites, so proxy of a proxy at least
Ukrainian anarchist leader Nestor Makhno pioneered the use of the tachanka en masse during the Russian Civil War.
When Ukraine was cool...
i gotta say i literally do not give a fuck if an ML state or anarchism happens first or whatever. I JUST WANT THIS HELL TO BE OVER
Funny you should say https://twitter.com/RefuseRaccoon/status/1488653392389890049
That's basically the stance I put forth in my pinned twitter thread lol
classic mistake. u see, tankie-ism is when you criticize people who love genocide. hope that helps!
tbf i think these people think anarchists are tankies
they dont have a concept of what the word actually means
tankie has been rhetorically whittled down from its original 1950s CPGB infighting meaning to just a worthless slander against any and all anti-imperialists, regardless of political tendency.
"Tankie" is when the anti-imperialist does stuff, and it's more tankie the more stuff it does, and if it does a real lot of stuff, it's redfash.
I once saw someone call an anarchist Mastodon instance tankie because someone said something about killing all billionaires
I once described to a liberal friend a dream I had about commandeering a tank, spray-painting the name "Autistic Saudade" on the side, and using it to disperse a neo-nazi rally meant to intimidate refugees and immigrants from "undesirable" countries. My friend said that I "went full tankie on them" and expressed that he was "glad that [I] wasn't a tankie".
...What the hell's that supposed to mean‽ That I'm just supposed to let neo-nazis intimidate refugees without consequence‽
That user's instance defederated with us.
Not because of your exchange but because they thought these posts were serious
I'm sorry what's wrong with those screenshots? I see not a single problem in any one of those screens????????? Jokes about Blahaj, the IMF and some other stuff, staying inside Hexbear, is not a reason to defederate at all. Weird.
People having a good time joking among themselves on Hexbear is not disruptive behaviour. It's not trolling, it's not disruptive, it's not harassment or abuse. Are there tankies here? Damn right there are. There are also anarchists, democratic socialists and there's probably a socdem hiding somewhere that hasn't yet been bullied too much for being a lib. This is just anticommunism. "Tankie instance" is just "they allow communists". It's incredible colony-brained shit, these people need to decolonise their minds.
One of the screenshots is literally just someone explaining how our custom emojis work lmao wtf
It's showing that you guys are communists. Hell, you're even federated with those awful bigoted tankies over at Lemmygrad!
these fuckers just can't stop lying. how is it possible that so many people keep repeating that we mass-downvote posts when we literally disabled downvotes years before federating
https://pawb.social/comment/1836076
Oh damn, look at all those purity tests. The liberals deem us "not left enough."
because being leftist is all about waving a rainbow flag during pride month but never actually doing anything to improve the material conditions of our LGBTQ+ comrades. That would be too authoritarian apparently.
excuse me sweatie, I donated 100% of my Raytheon Employee Social Responsibility Savings Account!
I'm as left as they come! I would vote for Pete Buttigieg right now if I could!
I'm doing my part!
How did they not recognize the Grover Iraq pasta. Netizens these days have no appreciation of history.
pawb.social just stated that they're “the Furry Community's hub on Lemmy.” Will someone from their depleted and neoliberal instance please inform them that we too have a Furry Community, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than theirs, and our Furries can shitpost!They've made like only 4 public posts in the past 24 hours, which tbh is the arena that really matters
Sorry I got us further defederated. I thought that if I was more pro-American, it would appease these anti-tankies.
Aww I was having fun with one of them, I almost got them to post a whole source to back up their claims!
Idk why furries feel so strongly about communism. Shouldn't they be arguing about furry stuff.
wait did they seriously cite me making a /c/traa community as a reason to defederate? lmaoooo fuck off transphobes
They're seriously claiming they defederated with us because they thought "Operation IKEA Freedom" was serious.
Fuckin' lmao they screencapped one of my comments explaining how emojis work as evidence that we're tankies
A real anarchist would wholeheartedly believe CIA and fascist propaganda pieces about their ideological enemies.
Welcome!
memes.
we're all tankies down here