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[–] RabbleRebel@lemmy.wtf 0 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I hope you're not calling tankies radical socialists or communists. Because .ml et al are authoritarian instances, not lefty.

[–] AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I interact regularly with "those ml" instances and don't meet any (or not many) of people like you describe. I do believe it's mostly rumors, propaganda, cherry picking and liberal prejudice against socialists.

Do you still know what is real? The principle behind freedom of speech is about hearing dissenting voices that might tell you a truth that the mainstream won't.

In case you're curious, I also believe "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" so I often support or at least not condemn countries like Russia or China or Iran in their fight against the authoritarian US Empire. I'm a realist, pacifist and materialist, we already know what the regime change sought by the US will do to the people in "shithole" countries.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works -5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The principle behind freedom of speech is about hearing dissenting voices that might tell you a truth that the mainstream won't.

I also believe "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" so I often support or at least not condemn countries like Russia or China or Iran in their fight against the authoritarian US Empire.

This is why I downvoted you.

Edit: looks like I pissed off the tankies. You people are transparent, FYI.

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago

What do you think radical means in political contexts?

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago

so interesting how hundreds of millions of leftists in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and other parts of the world (many of whom actually live in countries that had real, successful revolutions) are all apparently a bunch of idiots who don't realize they're being fooled, but the Westerners who have never had a successful socialist movement are the ones who truly understand the core of class struggle (and at the center of it all is "authoritarianism," a very real thing that definitely doesn't just describe the behavior of all states)