FaeDrifter @ FaeDrifter @midwest.social

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Oh my god watching these campaign think tanks try to replicate the trump nicknaming makes my sides hurt.

Republicans are like high school football players, they peaked in 2016 and can't get past trying to live the glory days again.

c/uselessredcircle

Damn this sounds great to me. When do we start?

I support ending labor systems that exploit humans, even the ones I've benefited from.

Oh yeah, there's a huge difference between tankies and fascists. Tankies are 10,000% better.

Suppose my only two choices in a vote were between a tankie that punched me in the face and slept with my mother, and a fascist. I would not just vote for the tankie, I would also donate money, canvas for them, and tell all my friends to vote for them.

I think it's just an online problem, anybody who gets radicalized in an echo chamber loses the plot of their own cause. It's just optics.

Look at that, you took two unrelated parts and stripped out all of the context.

That's what we call bad-faith trolling.

Tankies can be ideologically diametrically opposed to alt-right fascists, yet use the same techniques. For example, they both love bad-faith trolling.

The double sets of pronouns and neopronouns, at first glance, made it look like a satire of gender inclusivity to me.

And after some experience with them it's clear that it isn't satire, and they highly value gender inclusivity. My opinion now is that the apparent absurdity is a loyalty test. If you think fae/faer pronouns are silly, you aren't an "ally" and you are immediately identified as out-group. And the out-group, transpobes, liberals, fascists, all get lumped together so much they can't distinguish between them.

It's pretty much exactly what the right wing does. They can't distinguish between liberals, leftists, tankies, or anarchists, because it's all just "the enemy" to them.

I do not like tankies but I have absolutely never experienced this, all tankies typically want to do is discuss theory and history to the point that it's exhausting. Have you talked to any Trotskyists??

I have almost no experience with tankies tbh, so I'll be the first to say my opinions of them comes mostly from ignorance.

But so far I've heard that a "nuanced understanding of geopolitics and history" means you think "NATO made Putin do it".

My take is that he's another normie that can't easily distinguish between trump/russia troll farms and tankies.

The answer to the question "do Nazis self reflect" is no.

Sorry who is GP in this context?

The wheel weaves and the man weave wills.

His point was that "anarchist" was in quotes because they self-identify as an anarchist but behave in contradictory way.

And I would say my experience with a few lemmy instances is exactly that. "I am an anarchist" is a way of creating group lines, consisting of the in-group of anarchists, and everyone else in the out-group (fascists and liberals together).

It's really silly because it's an inherent contradiction. The point of being an anarchist is that there is no out-group, and yet they've just recreated the in-group out-group mentality all over again.

I don't go through people's comment histories to try to validate them.

And there's a shocking overlap in vernacular and memes between tankies and alt-right. Obviously they're diametrically opposed on almost all issues. BUT neither really believe in good faith discussion, it's mostly trolling and "dunking". Mix in sarcasm that's not obvious to an outsider, and the jokes are hard to tell apart from misinformation or "muddying the water".

It's way more present since Hexbear federated in, every first impression is that it's an alt-right troll farm. After some interaction it gets clear quickly that it isn't.

Just expect us normies to have that first impression.

Also, just do a quick browse of midwest.social vs hexbear. Your instance acts and talks like 4chan or the_donald.

If I wver visit your region I must try to trap you I in a circle of salt and force you to actually read some theory.

Is it an actual book or is it wojak spam, because I love reading but your wojak spam is insufferable.

Then go where?

If they want to get the fuck out of the US, where do they want to go and why aren't they going there?

Absolutely not. America is more liberal and democratic, even if marginally. America has not had a single dictator in power for 2 decades and it's actually fairly okay to be gay in America.

I would 1000% rather live in the US than live in Russia.

Russia is not liberal or democratic. It is a corrupt capitalist oligarchy/dictatorship with limited human rights. It was built by the US from the corpse of the USSR.

Y'all claim to hate Russia but also spend a suspicious amount of time defending it.

This is true. Maybe nato has a history of behavior we could investigate to see what their likely actions are going forward... Yeah, turns out it is a literal nazi army created to do war crimes to keep capitlaism strong.

Literally makes no sense because capitalism would still be just as strong without NATO.

And I don't think there's any evidence that Putin is an insane megalomaniac to that extent

See, this is where you are completely out of touch of reality.

There's no evidence that Putin ISNT another wannabe Hitler. He's a dictator that can't be removed because he kills off all his political rivals. He's a liar who will pretend his invasion force is just running training exercises. He's threatened to use nukes, even though it's basically just mutually assured destruction.

And sure, Putin now wants "peace" because this war is insanely costly for him, everyone expected Ukraine to fall within days. Putin was supposed to conquer Ukraine before NATO could act. So Putin has no choice but peace if he wants to keep the 1/5 he's already conquered. Pleace, that is, until he starts running training exercises along the border again.

The real question of the day for y'all is, why is Russia conquering neighboring countries instead of making alliances? Why didn't Russia and Ukraine start a Eastern European Treaty Organization? A treaty would have massively reinforced Russia against NATO without gutting it's military. I don't see any benefit for Russia turning it into a way except for Putin being an expansion thirsty megalomaniac.

All of them wish they could get the fuck out of this country.

And go where? Russia?

Maybe you can disband NATO, and they won't have to leave, you can just bring Russia here instead.

And while Putin is carting them off to camps, they can say, "well at least it's not the GOP."