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  • Remy Rose@lemmy.onetoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlAre you a 'tankie'
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    3 months ago

    ...you know, that definitely sounds pretty plausible! Massive wave of fascism happening internationally right now, and we're screaming about these people instead because the red scare was so incredibly effective? That is sadly very believable.


  • Remy Rose@lemmy.onetoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlAre you a 'tankie'
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    3 months ago

    No.

    Maybe I'm way off the mark here but... I think the reaction to tankies seems very overblown. No one you could describe as a "tankie" is currently in charge of any of the countries/companies/organizations that are busy destroying the world right now, so I don't super understand why everyone's talking about them like they're at all a priority? The authoritarians that tankies are obsessed with are all either long dead, or totally unaware of their existence.

    Maybe some people on the left are just trying to look at future dangers here, like tankies are gonna be "Bolsheviks Part 2", somehow come into power, and then purge all the anarchists or something. But didn't Bolsheviks actually have a lot of power and influence prior to the revolution? Tankies don't seem to.



  • Remy Rose@lemmy.onetoScience Memes@mander.xyzwhy not both?
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    3 months ago

    Definitely both, since a lot of people (myself included) don't have anything resembling a good local landtrust. Evety tiny bit of park/public land/etc near me is like 99% amur honeysuckle, garlic mustard, and lesser celendine. None of the people ostensibly responsible for taking care of said land seem to care... 😭








  • Remy Rose@lemmy.onetoScience Memes@mander.xyzLiving
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    4 months ago

    Why are people afraid of house centipedes? They already ARE cute! It'd be one thing if they were at least somewhat willing to bite you, like some spiders, but they won't. They've got the best eyesight of any centipede, which inadvertently gives them really cute little eyes too.