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[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 77 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just stopping by to say fuck tankies. Ok bye.

[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

Blessed stop; thank you

[–] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 66 points 1 year ago (21 children)

can't wait to see the hexbear response to this one

[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 51 points 1 year ago

Hexbear: [image of a pig pooping on its own balls]

Truly, walking in the shoes of Marx and Engels. Such eloquence.

[–] Stoneykins@mander.xyz 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

You don't have to wait you can just go look at them whenever you want.

https://hexbear.net/post/1070892

They won't be showing up here, this is a lemmy.world community and they are defederated afaik.

[–] WolfhoundRO@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My God, they're just fanscreeching there and trying to make themselves interesting in the cringiest way about it. As always, tbh

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[–] bouh@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (66 children)

It's easy to make a list of all communists countries that turned fascists and massacred people. You don't do that with capitalists because there are simply too many, everywhere, in about all of history.

[–] nixcamic@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It's almost like the main problem with both authoritarian communism and authoritarian capitalism might be the authoritarianism.

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[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (12 children)

It would be 100% with capitalist as well.

As DarthBueller@lemmy.world less succinctly put it. Capitalism is barely a few hundred years old. It's barely existed a fraction of human history. It's barely older than many of the original socialist ideals. Let alone all of history. Markets and currency predate capitalism and socialism by millennia. And neither has claim to them. Despite both making use of them.

That said fuck leninists. Actual communists are pretty chill though. But leninists and capitalists are a threat to everyone. Including themselves.

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[–] aidan@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Just as a true socialist country has never existed, a true capitalist country has never existed. Economies are always mixed.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Ssshhhjttt, don't be reasonable, you're gonna make them cry

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[–] DarthBueller@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

So capitalism has existed since "about all of history"? About as dumb a take as folks insisting that the Israel/Palestine conflict has been going on for thousands of years.

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[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago

I like how all the pictures are wojacks or hand drawns and Khrushchev is just his character from Oversimplified

[–] celeste@feddit.de 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You didn't mention the Prague Spring or the whole of the assassination attempts on Tito or the East German uprising in 1953.

[–] JackOfAllTraits@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I mean, there is only so much space... I think the point stands.

[–] alternative_factor@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

NNNOOOO!!! HOW DARE YOU UN-WHITEWASH LENIN!!!! NOOOO!!! Tankies tried SO HARD to make Makhno disappear like Trotsky! You LIBERAL AMERICANS!!! REEEEEE!!!

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[–] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Yeah quite a large portion of lemmings are politically insane. It's either 'burn the rich, overthrow the government' or 'Maybe the windmill party has a valid point'

Like why can't people just be chill and get along

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Hey now, don’t go lumping “eat the rich” in with these crazies. I can hate tankies and hate our growing wealth inequalities

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

eat the rich? I bet they would taste funny but I am open to the idea

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Well, the people "being chill and getting along" (i.e. just keeping the status quo going) is nowadays supporting a genocide,so...

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[–] TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Like why can’t people just be chill and get along

I think the hurtling toward climate crises has a lot of people desperate for governments to actually do something to help assuage it, not make it worse.

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[–] TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 year ago

Meanwhile, OP: 🍿

[–] disconnectikacio@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

But the tankies now call themselves as "right wing christian, conservative, nationalists", see orban, trump, putin, etc...

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are still plenty of members of the Leninist tankie cult left - look at the positions of most Communist Parties in Europe. To make things worse, I think most of them don't even realize that the Soviet Union is gone and that China became a cyberpunkish corporatocracy that puts the worst western country to shame.

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

If tankies when they're gonna be real surpises when the qouta for poets was met ages ago and it's time to go to the coal mines.

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