Too many tankies. All of them saying people shouldn’t vote, while offering no solution and celebrating Russia as a good country.

  • t3rmit3@beehaw.org
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    First off, are you asserting that tankies are fascist?

    Yup.

    Well, I don’t know what else to tell you other than “you’re wrong”. Fascism is an exclusively right-wing construct. It’s also not just some generic “suppressing dissent by force” that most centrists define it as, it has a very explicit set of features. If you’re not familiar with Umberto Eco’s “Ur-Fascism”, I’d encourage you to read it. Authoritarianism != Fascism.

    Fascism, authoritism, single party rule, etc. are all symptoms of a decayed society and something that tankies generally want.

    I agree about everything minus “fascism” (see above), which is why I disagree with Marxist-Leninism. But the assertion you previously made was that they wanted to destroy society, which is a far cry from listing symptoms of a “decayed” society which are ironically right in line with our current predicament, but certainly not one brought about by far-left political forces. Truly a brilliant example of the “people attributing to Socialism that which is actively happening under Capitalism” meme.

    I love when tankies invent acronyms and words, it’s always so funny. I just picture them in Fedora’s with a smug look probably thinking, “aha, good sir, bet you’ve never heard that word before.” I’ll be honest, sometimes faking intellectualism can be an effective propaganda tool, it makes people believe you have authority on the subject.

    Well considering I had written out the phrase in an earlier comment (in a comment thread you responded to), I didn’t think it was quite so unreasonable to think you might understand it, but I’m glad it gave you the chance to feel good by concocting some fantasy tankie strawman.

    And honestly, I’m glad you pivoted to calling me a tankie. It really shows the dangers of the kind of echo chamber you want to construct, where everyone who disagrees with you is secretly the enemy in disguise. And unfortunately, y’all got your way, and the admins did de-federate from them, so I guess now instead of being called a secret capitalist by the tankies, I just have to look forward to being called a secret tankie by the likes of you.