• mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    A tankie is a supporter of an authoritarian country that either is, or presents itself as, a left wing.

    Pretty unambiguous definition.

        • brain_in_a_box [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          So all countries then.

          So your definition of tankie is "a supporter of country that either is, or presents itself, as left wing."

        • ThereRisesARedStar [she/her, they/them]
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          1 year ago

          Thank you for acknowledging that it is basically useless because it is just a thing states do.

          Also fascists and other reactionary dissidents should be repressed when they try to organize.

          • mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de
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            1 year ago

            I agree. This is why I caution more nuanced takes on economics. A lot of people on Hexbear think a revolution occuring in the US is going to look like 1917, but really it's going to be more like 1923. Take a look at the closest we have been to a "revolution" since 1776.

            • ThereRisesARedStar [she/her, they/them]
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              1 year ago

              The question is just how bad things are going to get before socialism happens. It might get to fascists killing people like me in the streets beforehand, but fascism will not resolve the contradictions of capitalism and will not prevent the inevitability of socialism.

              • mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de
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                1 year ago

                This is a human problem that cannot seem to be fixed. It feels like a simulation how history is constantly stuck in the same power cycles without sustained improvement.

                There are innocent people who have been conditioned to think the status quo is the best we have, who themselves are victims of misinformation. The only left-wing revolutions I've seen in history involves purging these people from society, which eventually creates the left wing gestapos, like the NKVD. These organizations persist to squash dissidents and millions of deaths later these countries revert to capitalism or quasi-capitalism due to a failed system.

                I don't know what the best answer to it is, but there are no quick fixes.

                • ThereRisesARedStar [she/her, they/them]
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                  1 year ago

                  left wing gestapos, like the NKVD.

                  https://jewishcurrents.org/the-double-genocide-theory

                  As someone who knew people who were in nazi concentration camps, Im done talking with you about this. You're wrong and you're being incredibly offensive.

                  • mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de
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                    1 year ago

                    The Gestapo and NKVD were both oppressive secret police organizations. Why is it controversial to say this?

                    I was genuinely trying to turn this into a good-faith debate and was going to note it as my first positive interaction with a Hexbear user.

                    • carl_marks_1312 [comrade/them]
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                      1 year ago

                      One was opressing communists, ethnic and sexual minorities, one was opressing capitalists and other reactionaries

                      You equate the two...

                      Please look into the tolerance paradox

                      .de

                      Coming from a German instance you should be more mindful

                      • mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de
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                        1 year ago

                        Both organizations participated in overwhelming amount of extrajudicial killings. Incidentally, both organizations also purged socialists.

                        • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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                          1 year ago

                          Both organizations participated in overwhelming amount of extrajudicial killings.

                          Of who? pit

                          Incidentally, both organizations also purged socialists.

                          Arresting someone for a crime who happens to be a socialist is exactly the same as purging socialists for being socialists because you think they're secret agents of the Jews.

                          This is the laziest equivocation I've ever seen and you should eat a pile of leaves.

                        • carl_marks_1312 [comrade/them]
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                          1 year ago

                          Again, coming from a German instance you should be more mindful. Equating a fascist regime and a socialist state is actually a fascist talking point disguised as centrism.

                          Extrajudicial killings are definitely not good when you just look at it in a vacuum/without context and noone argues in favor of that. Not on hexbear at least.

                          That said, looking at things without context is not dialectical aka lib. And the context here being WW2..