cubedsteaks

I am legit trying to figure out why the apologists aren’t getting banned

You know, I would like to know this too. I sure as hell don't want to interact with those people.

Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to communists who express support for one-party communist regimes that are associated with Marxism–Leninism, whether contemporary or historical. It is commonly used by anti-authoritarian leftists, including anarchists, libertarian socialists, left communists, democratic socialists, and reformists to criticise Leninism, although the term has seen increasing use by liberals and right‐wing factions as well.

this is what I've been going by cause I had to look it up as no one can be confirmed to give a straight forward answer on here that I've seen.

Never seen terms like “tankie” until I came here

I mentioned this once and then someone became super unhinged at me.

I mentioned that someone became super unhinged at me and that person seemed okay at first but then started talking down to me about politics in general.

It's fucking weird here sometimes and I couldn't be further removed from anything "tankie" related but random lemmy users will still screech it at me.

Talked to some knob the other day who was talking about ruling his small business with, and I quote "an iron fist"

Thankfully that's not a common interaction but I do notice more hostile folks recently.

I actually keep seeing other repost bots show up

Me too. I was bummed because I had already blocked one and then another one popped up. For places I was already subscribed to that didn't seem to be bot posts before.

My week just started cause I work Mon-Fri and I'm super nervous for tomorrow cause I have a project I have to do with someone I am not use to working with.

I'm gonna go get an edible after work though and hopefully I run into my crush.

Seinfeld made a joke about how car rental companies don’t understand what a “reservation” actually is nearly thirty fucking years ago and jack fucking shit has changed

Not only that but holy shit if a lot of customer service interactions aren't just like that now. They use doublespeak to get around customers and look for ways to give people indirect answers so no one ever gets any real help.

I mean I bring my own laptop anyway. I can't stop other people from using the TV.

Of course I remember the “meme faith” thing that was happening in 2016 and it seemed like it really worked. All those alt right pepe memes infesting everything and they picked Trump as the focus

Oh I'm talking about waay waaaay before 2016. I'm talking 2008. They were looking for a new hitler.

What Trump did was unprecedented

I can't agree because there is evidence of Trump talking about running for office since the 90's. We should have seen this coming but any time it was talked about, it was laughed off and ignored.

I live in a liberal and wealthy area of a red state. I make good money, live comfortably, and have a diverse community of people available to me. All sorts of recreation, social events, etc.

I live in a liberal area of a blue state. I make okay money and live kind of comfortable but not really and I miss out on a lot of things due to racism and having to combat culture wars because of who I am as a person.

So I'm feeling the disintegration. I get the brunt of it dealt to me first hand. People fucking hate me because I am who I am.

That being said -

Economic reforms. Large investments in infrastructure. A real Green New Deal - trillions of dollars spent building all sorts of modern infrastructure would require lots of labor. Build high speed rail all over America. Start programs that give companies incentive to return manufacturing jobs to the US.

I agree with this. I agree with raising minimum wage and universal healthcare - I'm even for universal basic income. I agree with a lot of what you are saying and I think it would help a lot of people.

Seriously, it’s not a coincidence fascism came about right after the Great Depression

I get that too. It's history and you can't argue against it.

But I'm telling you about a current enemy and its one I know very well - in my early 20s you could easily have lumped me in with that same group of people. I'm not anymore but I definitely was.

And even when I was growing as a person and slowly removing those ideologies on my own from myself.. I still interacted with people who are never going to stop being that way.

I don't think its all insecurity. I think some of it is just as simple as pure hatred. I'm telling you. They get off it. I don't know how anyone would change their mind when they totally want someone to go out of their way to try and change their mind. They want someone like you to try and get rid of their insecurity so they can laugh at the fact that you tried.

How do you change someone like that? How do you help someone like that?

The only reason I changed is cause I chose to do that on my own.

Same here. I have the flip 4 z and it's been great! And before this I had the galaxy note 20 and the galaxy note 4. Both fantastic phones. I do miss having the stylis but I didn't want to get a fold.

Yeah, I wasn't taking issue. I was providing information.

I love that! I want to get more into collecting old tech and restoring it. I plan on getting myself an old computer that runs Windows XP and DOS too.