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[-] aew360@lemm.ee 119 points 4 months ago

Because Putin is bankrolling two or three minor political parties and the front runner of a major political party. That fucking anti-war protest in DC was the dumbest shit. Yeah let’s have two political parties that agree on absolutely fucking nothing except for hating Ukraine co-host an event where Ron Paul’s bitch ass makes up stories about how congresspeople told him that they needed to start a war to fix the economy while some limpdick tankie waves the Soviet flag around in the background

[-] PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world 48 points 4 months ago

Most people posting as tankies today aren’t tankies.

As someone who has done extensive reading in modern Marxism, Rawlsian doctrine, anarchism both historical and modern, and so on and so on (and yes that was a Žižek reference), many of those posting as far leftists are coming from wholly self-constructed positions. They’re either deliberately playing the role of an agent provocateur or they’re people who have unwittingly become broadcast nodes with the same effect.

[-] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 43 points 4 months ago

Tankies on Lemmy are 100% right wing trolls pretending to be leftists. They aren't even trying to hide it at this point.

[-] aew360@lemm.ee 47 points 4 months ago

One of them on chapotraphouse said “I’m gonna vote for Trump just so see the US finally burn to the ground” and I replied “horseshoe theory: confirmed” and the mods removed my comment lmao

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 26 points 4 months ago

I've had one case on lemmy.ml where they deleted many of my comments but kept the brigading comments responding.

There are definitely lines that some mods will defer to one side.

[-] PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

I opened accounts on multiple instances due to the instability (and information propagation dynamics) of individual ones. I figured “why not?” I had several Reddit accounts, after all, and it just seemed to make sense.

I thought lemmy.ml was for machine learning. The UI I was using didn’t include self-descriptions.

[-] Zirconium@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Someone accused me of denying the Holocaust because I said Poland didn't invade the Soviet union

[-] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I got a ban on Lemmy for "genocide denial" for saying the Russian invasion of Ukraine had traits of genocide.

These people are shockingly propagandized.

[-] Zirconium@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Crazy how tankies support Russia (despite them not even being communist, domestic abuse, treatment of gay people, and ties with conservatives). And are just okay with Russia killing entire villages of Ukraines because their supposed Nazi government (didn't let a Russian puppet in government).

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 4 months ago

maoism-third worldism: an infantile disorder

[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

A lot of us leftists also disavow tankies entirely, they don’t represent us.

[-] Hyperreality@kbin.social 26 points 4 months ago

Cosplay communists. They don't actually believe in communism, they just like the esthetic and being contrarian.

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They’re either deliberately playing the role of an agent provocateur or they’re people who have unwittingly become broadcast nodes with the same effect.

That's... a tankie, at least functionally. If they're spouting the propaganda, I don't care where it came from or whether it's officially certified as doctrine.

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 13 points 4 months ago

and so on and so on (and yes that was a Žižek reference)

"And sho on" [sniff] "and sho forth."

Unironically Zizek is very fascinating though.

[-] psmgx@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Ehhhh not really. He's alright

[-] Scrof@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago

Ah, yes, the myth of "real Communism".

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

At this point I think he's probably bankrolling a lot more than just the front runner.

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

We've known that for close to a decade now. Let's not forget that a bunch of traitors spent July 4th in Moscow and that Paul Ryan said that trump and a few others in Congress were getting paid by russia

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