62
Mastodon "leftists"
(hexbear.net)
Went both looking for fellow tankies and seeing who I should be blocking on Mastodon by looking at the hashtag #tankies.
It gave me brain damage and I also found a few of these "lemmy is made by tankies, ewww can't use it"-posts that I had never seen before. So sharing these for our mutual enjoyment:
Also just the general vibe of the posts with this tag is just so hostile. We really live rent free in these peoples heads. Interesting how so many of these were ukraine flag or isntreal flag profiles too, also a few anne applebaum replies, because of course.
The vibe is pretty much whatever this drivel is by a true communism understander:
Not to be too sectarian but left-wing politics on mastodon is totally dominated by Epic Western Tech Job Anarchists who think China is doing a colonialism on Hong Kong. But it isn't Orientialist to hold this view because all states are invalid and people should be free of them. Why do they focus on this particular example? A mystery.
I like the term Anarcho-NATOist for these people.
Also known as NATO-leftists
i think anarcho-bidenist works too lol
Those are the Anarchist-In-Name-Only types.
"Two state solution? How about no state solution. Both sides are bad and neither get my support ๐"
They'd be out here denouncing figures like Durruti and Malatesta as tankies for what they advocated for and what they did, if they were alive today.
That's the
anarchist playbook, you ALWAYS hate on the real revolutionaries doing what it takes to bring socialism in a world where imperialism is brutally powerful, just remember to sprinkle some actual progressive takes now and then so they don't confuse you for a fascist
The only constant for those fucks is "DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO." More often than not they wish to lord over everyone else while clinging to that baby anarchist "caring about things is stupid actually, except for access to treats" principle.