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[-] Lemminary@lemmy.ml -3 points 10 months ago

mean old tankies out

Mask off already? Damn, that's kind of against the rules

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 63 points 10 months ago

What mask? I'm an ML and have never claimed otherwise on this account or its alts on any instance.

And being an ML isn't against the rules, so don't bog down our dear admins with superfluous reports.

[-] KurtVonnegut@hexbear.net 39 points 10 months ago

"Tankies are bad."

Do you believe that that because you genuinely believe that capitalist nations like the United States and Russia are doing good things for the world, while "tankie" countries like Cuba and China are doing bad things for the world? Or do you believe that because you have been tricked by 100 years of racist propaganda that says socialists like Fidel Castro, Albert Einstein, and Martin Luther King were subhuman scum?

[-] Gsus4@feddit.nl 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Known capitalist evil practices do not absolve tankies of wanting to impose communism by force.

You use the term "racist propaganda" interchangeably as anti-socialist propaganda...as if the only victims of capitalism were the victims of racism.

Who calls MLK and Einstein scum? Maybe Fidel was called that by right-wingers during the Cold War. Why did you mix and match those 3? Why not Emma Goldman or Gorbachev, if you're just naming random socialists (I'm not even sure MLK ever explicitly considered himself a socialist).

[-] KurtVonnegut@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago

I'm not even sure MLK ever explicitly considered himself a socialist.

Well then.

"I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"Today, capitalism has out-lived its usefulness." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"We must see now that the evils of racism, economic exploitation and militarism are all tied together." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God's children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell." - Martin Luther King Jr.

(from https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/01/21/11-most-anti-capitalist-quotes-martin-luther-king-jr)

It says a lot about the education system wherever you come from that you never learned MLK was a socialist. He HATED capitalism! Hated it! Also, the scientist Albert Einstein was a prominent socialist who wrote a famous article, "Why socialism?" explaining in detail why he was a socialist. Einstein and MLK believed in the same anti-capitalist struggle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Socialism%3F

[-] Gsus4@feddit.nl 2 points 10 months ago

Good, as long as you're not a Brezhnevian tankie, it's all good.

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.ml -3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

lmao How many times has that worked on anyone, honestly? Like I'm just gonna wake up one day and say, "yeah, you know what, my entire worldview has been shattered by @KurtVonnegut@hexbear.net whispering sweet commie propaganda in my ear"

Idk why you are all on stuck on the tankie shit like it matters that much to me. Like I said previously, I don't have a problem with the Christians for being Christian, but just like you tankies, the fandom is weird, intense and circlejerky af

[-] KurtVonnegut@hexbear.net 37 points 10 months ago

IDK man. You're basically saying "Why are you stuck on that environmentalist shit? It doesn't matter to me. Go worry about climate change somewhere else, stop bothering me."

My brother in christ. Climate change will affect you whether you want it to or not. Capitalism will affect you whether you want it to or not. You can't just be "out" of it. You can't not take a side in whether the earth gets destroyed or not (environmentalism) or whether 90% of the world's population is plunged into neo-feudal slavery. You're either with the slave-owners or against them. You gotta pick a side!

[-] Starlet@hexbear.net 38 points 10 months ago
[-] Lemminary@lemmy.ml -1 points 10 months ago

Lemme go get my white grocery bags

[-] Starlet@hexbear.net 27 points 10 months ago
[-] kristina@hexbear.net 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

ok he walked off and the tanks kept going? what are you saying? have you even seen the whole video

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.ml -2 points 10 months ago

Bruh, it was a throwaway reply just like that stupid meme. What are you even replying to looking for a meaningful argument, honestly

[-] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 29 points 10 months ago

It doesn't count that I said something stupid! It doesn't count because I wasn't serious! It doesn't count because I didn't think about it! That means I get away with saying stupid things!!

[-] artificialset@hexbear.net 34 points 10 months ago
[-] Lemminary@lemmy.ml -1 points 10 months ago

I present you the side bar ->

[-] artificialset@hexbear.net 46 points 10 months ago
  • Please only post links to actual news sources, no tabloid sites, etc
  • No NSFW content
  • No hate speech, bigotry, propaganda, etc

is the "no tankie" rule in the room with us right now?

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.ml -3 points 10 months ago

propaganda

Nee help reading? I'll spell it out: P-R-O...

[-] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 32 points 10 months ago
[-] forcequit@hexbear.net 28 points 10 months ago
[-] autismdragon@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago

OK what is and isn't propaganda aside, can you explain how merely saying "I'm a tankie" is "posting propaganda"?

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 33 points 10 months ago
[-] Lemminary@lemmy.ml -2 points 10 months ago

You don't say! I would've been clueless like walking into a room full of vegans

[-] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Jokes on you lib, im-vegan too

[-] artificialset@hexbear.net 19 points 10 months ago
[-] booty@hexbear.net 11 points 10 months ago

we're all vegan and we're coming to burn down your farms

[-] Outdoor_Catgirl@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago

This site is significantly vegan to the point where there is cw on pics of food from animals.

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