Didn’t take long to get banned for my radical opinion that all forms of Us-vs-Them tribalism are dehumanizing.

it’s always the pro-genocide people acting so injured on when the vile stuff they say gets a negative response

sounds like he’s okay with wars as long as they have a pretext, which they always do

they all suck, but that wasn’t shitposting, the shitposting was when he pretended to have good politics:

He said he has never considered himself to be a communist and that the comment was merely “internet s—posting

his constant use of weasel words like not supporting ‘unjust’ wars makes it impossible to distinguish his “foreign policy” from any of the other warmongering Democrats.

Respectfully, if you voted for the genociders you have no moral credibility here.

don’t worry I didn’t

blackwater Nazi tattoo guy sucks and I don’t see a reason to believe a word he says

the “shitposting” in question:

idk why he would clarify ‘pointless’ I guess he’s fine as long as the wars have a ‘pointed’ pretext, which the Iraq war did have. has he been specific?

The amount of Astroturfing against the guy a year out from the election is extremely sus.

the amount of people advocating to overlook a blackwater mercs Nazi tattoo and war crime employment history is also sus.

last I checked he seemed fine with his role in the US-led full scale invasion of Iraq, has he actually said anything condemning that or about opposing future warmongering?

for me the annoyance was that it was reposts from .ml to .world, not even uplifting smaller instances. just part of the personal crusade from people who are also drama farmers

Also remember you are the anarchist on .ml

hell yeah

it’s funny because I know them because for a while they were systematically reposting everything from lemmy.ml communities to drive traffic away from “the tankies”. the first impression was of a total asshole

you: “It’s impossible to have a serious conversation here, so I wish you luck!”

me: okay, I won’t bother responding

you: “woe is me, nobody responded, only downvotes”

idk what you expected tbh

Seems like a caricature rather than someone that’s actually around.

I really don’t see anyone of consequence on lemmy being like ‘no Putin is good actually.’

One example, I was reading a hexbear (allegedly tankie central) thread a while back where they were shitting on the CPRF for receiving praise from Putin for their support of the SMO. (ie saying that they were losers that lenin would have had shot, and that they’re not communist)

Can you elaborate? has tankie been reduced to pejorative shorthand for ‘isn’t repeating the approved narrative’

Oh I see, it is I who have to “welcome a different option”.

reread my comment, not what I said. Maybe if you’re less quick to call people tankies you might not get called a liberal in response.

I consider a workers dictatorship to be a lesser evil compared to the dictatorship of capital we live in currently.

I also does not know what that has to do with anarchism?

To put it simply, anarchists want to abolish hierarchy, communists want to abolish private property. They overlap when you want both. Liberals tend to oppose dismantling both of those things.

you have been pretty anti-communist every time we’ve intracted, on top of calling me a tankie. not surprised you’re having trouble with people welcoming your different opinion

I’m not a fan of the infighting either. It’s a very online kind of tribalism. I’m pretty active in anarchist organizing where I live and routinely have people from all sorts of tendencies showing up to help out without it devolving into a struggle session over factional infighting from a hundred years ago.

Just from the time I’ve spent here it seems like it’s specifically the people occupying the centrist liberal positions who are most invested in fostering a culture of leftist infighting

I only clear my inbox every few months, I like to see how big I can get the number

‘politically neutral’ incredible bait

Drops his own gun next to the hand of the guy he’s arresting, then hastily picks it up to point it at the people recording him. Incredible.

The rest is just assertions without evidence so I’ll have to pull Hitchens’ razor.

Neocon Iraq war supporting Christopher Hitchens? weems like a weird guy to quote if you’re opposed to the state murdering people but ok

Obviously not. Not sure what you’re trying to get at here though.

I’m an anarchist though I do get called a tankie quite a lot as a pejorative.

I’m opposed to all states. That said as someone who lives in the west I don’t really care to spend a lot of energy being mad about what my governments state enemies are doing.

‘democracy’ in capitalist states is a cruel facsimile of actual democracy. If you don’t have money for rent you might as well be unpersoned, corporations are people and money is free speech.