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    Seriously blaming the tankies again? How bourgeoisie of you lol

    If you want to blame something, blame the media. Both news and social media have completely sold out for profit. You CANNOT have a democracy if vast parts of your population is being misinformed. And this started with talk radio in rural areas many decades ago. And the democrats did nothing - because they are not left. Thanks for all the empty “Hope and Change” Obama!

    So yeah, blame socialists all you want but their critique was valid.

    You need a revolution or reformation. A massive change in who owns the means of communication to have a free press again that is not purely profit driven. Can you even imagine that? Is that something you would say? No. You’d rather blame and denigrate socialists and call them tankies. Look at the mass protests, it seems the libs aren’t even calling for Trump to step down and demand new election lol. People would rather bow to unjust laws and simplistic principles than believe in democracy. Of course they are all being stage managed.

    But this is just pathetic.

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    Republicans are always evil. They don’t do anything good. Ever. They’re a known quantity. That’s what we expect of them.

    We expect the Dems to be better. And they get the smoke when they fail at that. Cutting Corp taxes. Border crackdowns. Genocide. Those are things that should exclusively be the pervue of Republicans. If dems run to the right they will always lose because the right was so triggered by Obama that policy doesn’t matter to them whatsoever. It’s purely teamsport for them. You can’t appeal to them in any way. They see a (D) and vote against that person. Dems would never lose another election if they went only as far left as Bernie Sanders. We would have a perpetually booming economy and a high standard of living. But even that is far too far for the DNC Services Corp. So we get a gameshow host and a car salesman destroying everything.

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    Yes it was the “slight corruption” that “tankies” are criticizing Dems for. Give me a break.

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    If centrists wanted criticism of republicans, they could have done that more.

    But then they might not have got the endorsement of dick cheney. establishment democrats punched left and embraced the right.

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    Honestly the fact that the entire country keeps getting mad at Democrats while taking an “Aw shucks, who hasn’t tried to do a coup de tat or shifted blame for your actions onto a minority group. All is forgiven!” Attitude with Republicans, is…

    Just fucking bizarre.

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    It pisses me off to no end when people conflate legitimate criticism of Democrats with tankie rhetoric. The Dems are complacent, listless, corrupt, and lazy. They refuse to stand up to the Republicans until it’s too late or doesn’t matter.

    The people want progressive politics: universal healthcare, living wage, affordable housing, education, and food. We want a sustainable future and an end to corporate greed.

    The donor class, superpacs, and other sources of dark money in politics are what keep nearly everyone corrupt. Its addictive.

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      It pisses me off to no end when people conflate legitimate criticism of Democrats with tankie rhetoric.

      Last election season went something like this:

      Progressives: “Please stop sending weapons to a genocidal maniac who is using them to murder children in order to grab land. And stop actively protecting said genocidal maniac from consequences in the international community.”

      Establisment: “STFU tankie!”

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        Completely wrong, Tankies weren’t just promoting primarying Biden, a pretty obvious lost cause from the start given his incumbent status, they were promoting voting against Biden in the generals. That is NOT advocacy against genocide in Gaza. Trump is a single-state supporter.

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          Except that there are 2 groups: progressives and a more extreme left group. Progressives who were arguing in good faith against genocide were lumped in with the latter group.

          The establishment Democrats were engaging in censorship and suppression of anything that was critical of Israel. Now Trump has stepped up this censorship/suppression, but it was definitely happening under Biden.

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            I’m a consequencialist, so while I acknowledge there is a minority of extremists who think burning down the state itself is progressive, I personally don’t view them as such. If anything I think those extremists were being prodded along and supported by the conservatives who benefit from splitting the left and also agitated by Tankie psyops who benefit from the USA’s fall from grace.

            Just elect 60 democrats to the senate so we can get universal healthcare, reduce homelessness, tax the rich, reform the courts, expand ballot access, draw fair election maps, remove money from elections, protect human rights, and protect the environment. Everything I just listed are core DNC stances. If we can’t do that then we’re just going to suffer on this wild ride until societal collapse and replacement with something worse.

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            Incorrect, Biden sold Tank Munitions to Israel, but the nuance here is that Tankies has always described militarily aggressive, dictatorship loving, self-proclaiming Communists otherwise that would be fair.

            To even bring up Biden is whataboutism.

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        Maybe if progressives in partisan primary states registered as Democrats and voted in the primaries, they wouldn’t be complaining about all the centrists in office.🤔

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          Are you implying there was a Democratic presedential primary that didn’t break it’s own rules to make sure Biden was the only candidate on the ballot (edit) in many states (/edit)?

          If so, you’re living in a fantasy.

          This is the one-two step for Democratic party apologists.

          1. Blame leftists for their lack of representation in the party.

          2. Rig the processes to make sure that the left wing of the party has no internal representation.

          3. Goto step one.

          The best part of this dance from their view? Internal party politics and processes are boring, and the media won’t cover it when they cheat.

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            No. The presidential incumbent primary is a joke. I’m referring to the congressional primary that saw less than 20% attendance. Congress is the primary approval for military aid for Israel. POTUS can use drawdown power, but that can be challenged by Congress.

            We have three branches of government, two of which are elected, yet people pretend we have one vote every four years.

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          What primary? The DNC shut down real primaries last election. To the point where undecided was the protest vote.

          A race between Biden, Williamson, and Phillips isn’t a real primary.

          A real primary would have been something like Biden, Newsom, Whitmer, and maybe Shapiro.

          There is no point voting in a rigged primary.

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            The presidential incumbent primary is a joke. I’m referring to the congressional primary that saw less than 20% attendance. Congress is the primary approval for military aid for Israel. POTUS can use drawdown power, but that can be challenged by Congress.

            We have three branches of government, two of which are elected, yet people pretend we have one vote every four years.

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            What about my comment gave you that impression? I’m saying that if progressives voted in Democratic primaries with the same conviction they use to criticize the DNC, we wouldn’t have as many centrists in Congress.

            Democratic congressional primaries are decided by ~20% of registered Democrats. You can look at PAC funding and vote for the Democrat that isn’t funded by AIPAC, who will have a better chance of winning the election than a third-party protest vote.

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              My point is that Democrats, whether progressive or centrist, shouldn’t be supporting this. It shouldn’t matter (on this particular topic) if progressives aren’t voting; I’m not willing to give centrist Democrats a pass and will condemn them just the same.

              I keep hearing that progressives aren’t voting in the numbers that they should be, but there might be another problem: there simply aren’t that many progressives to get offices. As a “Reddit refugee”, I realized that we are overrepresented in a lot of these online echo chambers.

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                I’ve been left of the Democrats and stumping progressives/greens/independents since the 90s. Most people don’t even know if they live in one of the 30 partisan primary states. Copious amounts of New Yorkers were turned away at the polls in 2016 because they didn’t know they had to be registered as a Democrat to vote for Bernie in the primary. I’m sure that happened in other partisan primary states as well.

                Yet in my experience, asking a progressive to register as a Democrat is the fastest way to get them to stop listening, even though it’s statistically far more effective than voting third-party. People need to stop voting with their feelings and start playing the game that we’ve been losing for decades.

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          Accountability is one think these people will not take. Has me questioning where they get off calling themselves progressive. They can’t even handle the mere suggestion which is evident by the number of downvotes that occurs when it’s mentioned.

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      That’s cause “tankie” is right wing propaganda for exactly that reason. It blunts progressive discourse dead in its tracks.

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        What’s worse is that sometimes I can’t tell if it’s Right Wing trolls or truly insane hard leftists.

        I consider myself hard left progressive, but I have caveats like anyone. Tankies are so cartoonish, I don’t know how to react.

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          Yeah you’ll never know for sure. Actual tankies are what like a small subset of the small percent of progressives. Fractions of a fraction. Statistically they are non-existent. There is an outsized presense online. So one could reason that most of them you encounter are acting in bad faith. It’s been a very effective weapon on information warfare.

          My philosophy is to abide by the oldest rule of the internet. Don’t feed the trolls.

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        Are you trying to say we can’t have universal healthcare without leftist authoritarianism or do you not know what a “tankie” is?

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          A) yes, it is impossible to reform an embedded regime of wealth. You need revolution, which will likely require tanks even in the age of drones.

          B) tankie is anything to the left of burning children alive for warmth, at least how it’s used on this site.

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            A) yes, it is impossible to reform an embedded regime of wealth. You need revolution, which will likely require tanks even in the age of drones.

            Plenty of countries managed to enact universal health care coverage, facing down the same embedded regime of wealthy special interests, without full revolution. You’re just flat out wrong.

            B) tankie is anything to the left of burning children alive for warmth, at least how it’s used on this site.

            Lol k

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              Plenty of countries managed to enact universal

              And those countries have tanks

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              A) those countries had far less embedded capitalists. They did not reform, they advanced in a linear direction.

              B) you’re a north American, half of you are fascists and the other half are conservative Catholics. Don’t you people specifically still kill native women so regularly there’s multiple euphemisms about it?

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                Don’t you people specifically still kill native women so regularly there’s multiple euphemisms about it?

                I can’t say this is familiar to me, at all.

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                  Any Canadian that doesn’t know about ‘starlight tours’ at this point is either sheltered or willfully ignorant to the plight of native women in Canada.

                  Canada has this nice image and all, but they’re still committing genocide.

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                A) those countries had far less embedded capitalists. They did not reform, they advanced in a linear direction.

                This is based on literally nothing. The way that health care was funded and delivered was reformed completely, many times in many countries, and was opposed on exactly the same lines, and that opposition was overcome. Your insistence that the whole system must be torn down or whatever is without rational or historical backing, and will guarantee failure.

                B) you’re a north American, half of you are fascists and the other half are conservative Catholics. Don’t you people specifically still kill native women so regularly there’s multiple euphemisms about it?

                Nobody knows what you’re talking about, including you.

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                  A) no it wasn’t. The vast majority of healthcare reforms in the EU took place shortly after WWII and explicitly due to the fact fascism was fresh in everyone’s mind so they could just remind everyone of nazi healthcare practices.

                  B) Assuming you’re on ca due to your location, look up literally anything about native Americans in your country since you failed to learn about it in school (or went to school before courses on actual Canadians were added). Starlight tours still happen to this day and native women still disproportionately ‘go missing.’

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      and yet they are head and shoulders above the trump cult

      anyone that can’t see that or chooses to campaign and vote against the democrats is so corrupted by socialist fundamentalism that they enabled fascism

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        So when they agree to vote for Trump’s demands, they’re fundamentally better? Gutting Section 230 is the better choice because Trump said it, but they voted for it? Appointing Trump’s batshit cabinet picks? Bombs are inherently less deadly if a D signed off on it instead of a R?

        Is my governor, Newsom of California, inherently better for being a democrat as he invites Republicans like actual open nazi and helper of Trump’s rise to power, Steven Bannon? Is he inherently better when he agrees with Charlie Kirk that trans people don’t have a place in society? Giving them not just a soap box, but a microphone and a speaker to the masses, and agreeing with them?

        This is better? Agreeing to their demands and pretending you’re not helping their fascism?

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          you couldn’t see the difference before the election and you still can’t see the difference now?

          for real?

          come ooooon

          at least talk about bernie and aoc or something vaguely convincing

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            You did not answer my question, please try again with a bit more brain power.

            Is my governor better for inviting Republican dipshits and agreeing with them, because he’s a Democrat? Are bombs used for murder better with a Blue pen instead of a Red pen?

            And Bernie and AOC are cool, they won’t be any positions of power because of Schumer and Pelosi.

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              you’re still campaigning so hard for trump, this is what i mean about how corrupt the socialists are

              to answer your questions: bombs are all the same. you don’t have to agree with all dems to see they are better than the cult

              but you can’t see that?

              bernie and aoc are not in a position of power now because you encouraged people not to vote for them

              the logic is pretty simple

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                I literally have never once praised Trump. I am saying “If Democrats are voting yes with his fasicst demands, they are doing a bad job at stopping Trump.”

                bernie and aoc are not in a position of power now because you encouraged people not to vote for them

                Point to me ever once saying “Do not vote for Bernie or AOC” in my entire account history. Any and all of it. Please, if it’s so clear as day, use my words against me. Screenshot it so I can’t edit or delete it too. Document me lying to you and the public.

                Let me make it clear: Trump is evil. If someone agrees with him, they are complicit in his evil. That includes, voting for his demands. That includes giving him what he wants drawn up by Republican house/senators, and voting with it.

                I like Al Green. I like AOC. I like Bernie. I like Booker. They have stood up for my kind more than most politicians. If the entire Democratic party was filled with them, I’d have a lot less to complain about. Instead we have Schumer saying he won’t vote yes on Trump’s demands, and then last minute gives Trump what he wants. Instead we have Pelosi in a hospital voting to prevent AOC from gaining rank in the House.

                Once again, is my governor, promoting actual, unironic Nazis who enabled Trump’s rise of power good for America because he’s a Democrat? Richard Bannon literally sig heiled to Trump 2 weeks before the podcast episode featureing and agreeing with him. Is this good?

                And please try to use grammar and spelling like we do when we speak English.

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                  Booker voted to fund Israel, unfortunately. He’s not the worst, and is in the limelight right now, but he’s got a mixed and spotty voting record.

                  Some stuff I can forgive, but not supporting genocide.

                  I say this fully aware that I voted for Harris because I know she’d have been better than Trump.

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                  you seem a little confused; quite typical of myopic socialists that can’t see beyond the current protest

                  the OP was about how people like yourself raged against the democrats by taking fundamentalist positions that made you predictably blind to the bigger picture of preventing the actual fascists getting to power and shooting the causes you thought you were supporting in the foot, and causing other immeasurable damage

                  and you’re still doing it!

                  attempt to wrap your head around that, i know looking more than 1 move ahead really isn’t your forte

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                Hell lemme help you, here’s a post from 3 days ago, unedited, saying I want more Democrats to be like Bernie and AOC, and stop voting for Trump’s bills.

                EDIT: I’m gonna catch some Z’s because I’m not gonna stay up waiting for you to gather a lack of evidence to support claims you made up in your own head. Might as well try to accuse me of being DB Cooper or something else.

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    The Republicans Should’ve Faced Way More Criticism During The 2024 Presidential Campaign

    Kamala Harris campaigned with Liz Cheney. The fuck is wrong with you?

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    The difference is we don’t expect anything good from Republicans. We expect libs to at least try but they’d rather punch left than effectively govern.

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    Current US: a neoliberal capitalist nightmare being ruined by CEOs

    Your most intelligent American: This is definitely the socialists’ fault

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    Look at the division in this thread.

    A U.S. President is literally trying to recreate the conditions of 1930s Germany by tanking the economy and isolating us from our international partners.

    Stop looking for someone to blame and put out the current dumpster fire before it catches the grease.

    Get out and protest. Get your boots on the ground.

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    “Tankies” made no measurable difference in the 2024 election. There’s next to none of them in the USA. Go ahead: ask real people in your offline life what a tankie is, and see if even one single person has even heard that word.

    Unless, of course, you’re just applying that word to anyone whos not a Republican that’s criticizing the dems. Then I suppose you’ll find “tankies” everywhere.

    It feels like a word that’s just being used to divide the left.

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      It’s the lib version of “woke”; it’s not even used for its original meaning anymore

      “All the tankie college kids who love Hamas lost Kamala the election” ok Kristen I’m sure they’re tankies. Please just finish watching your DVR of the Today show

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        Thank you for clarifying, because I was confused. Like… ‘Are the Tankies in the room with us now, OP?’

        What you’re saying sounds correct, because I don’t know anyone to the left of Harris who didn’t recognize that Trump was worse. While I think that I might have one friend who refused to vote for her in a swing state, I think that the BlueAnon folks really misunderstood the actual consequences of losing support on the left.

        It wasn’t really, imo, that those folks wouldn’t show up. The problem was that I think a lot of folks never realized how much young blue-haired leftists dragged Biden across the finish line in 2020 by knocking on doors and convincing their uncles to vote Dem. I said throughout the election that losing those people wasn’t really a risk of losing their votes, it was a risk of losing the core enthusiasm and turnout organizing that Democrats had largely outsourced to Bernie Sanders’ base. And I could be wrong, but all that I’ve seen seems to affirm that this is exactly what happened.

        If someone has evidence otherwise, though. please let me know.

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          What you’re saying sounds correct, because I don’t know anyone to the left of Harris who didn’t recognize that Trump was worse. While I think that I might have one friend who refused to vote for her in a swing state, I think that the BlueAnon folks really misunderstood the actual consequences of losing support on the left.

          I do find it funny that .world and their ilk will swear up and down that Blue MAGA and BlueAnon aren’t real things, but then will swear Tankies are a thing non-stop in American politics when none of them can agree on what they look like or do.

          You ask a Republican to define woke, you wont get an answer beyond “Anything I don’t like to the left of me.” You ask a Democrat on here to define Tankie, you won’t get an answer beyond “Anything I don’t like to the left of me.”

          So long as the person doesn’t defend authoritarianism and any hypocrisy of their preferred candidate, I’ll consider them an ally to me.

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      Tankies aren’t left, the word means exactly what it has always meant: supporters of Russian and Chinese Dictatorships. People who would side with the Tanks in their respective massacres of civilians.

      I really wish we lived in a world where psyops and social media made no difference in elections.

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        If it’s “always meant supporting Russia” but the term was coined when Russia was run by the communist party and part of the USSR? Do you not think the communist that supported Russia “the Tankies” would be against the capitalist Oligarchy that Russia currently is?

        You’re just using a term to mean what you want it to. Definitely not what it’s “always meant”.

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          1. Lemmygrad, ML, and Hexbear Tankies support all three with no distinctions.

          2. Economically Russia has transformed structurally it has not. More specifically it has regressed due to Putin ignoring term limits and empowering a loyal Oligarchy. Putin has even said publicly that he wants to restore the former Russian Empire.

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            Lemmygrad, ML, and Hexbear Tankies support all three with no distinctions.

            Hahahahaha. You haven’t visited those instances one single time, I guarantee. I’m a Hexbear user, and it’s patently obvious that you haven’t even bothered to check. Hexbear users routinely criticise Putin for being the fascist scum he is. He’s attacking the rights of women and minorities, defundign the welfare state, and enacting policy exclusively on behalf of oligarchs. What hexbear/ML/grad users don’t do, is uncritically swallow russophobic state propaganda (e.g. claims of "evil Russian ghost fleet destroying internet cables with anchors, backed up by 0 evidence whatsoever), and they will not put the interests of the imperialist west above those of the imperialist Russia, as libs routinely do such as clapping in support of war budgets of the EU going to Rheinmetall.

            Economically Russia has transformed structurally it has not

            Literal braindead take. A capitalist oligarchy DID NOT EXIST in the USSR. Policies of universal free healthcare, universal free education to the highest level, universal good pensions, and fostering of unionisation, are all incompatible with a system that’s ruled by an “oligarchic minority profiting from the rest”. That’s why those things were all dismantled as soon as capitalism was restored. Russia suddenly started engaging in unequal exchange by importing cheap labour and products from the global south (which would have been beneficial in all economic senses for the USSR but it didn’t do because of its strong anti-imperialist stance)… There’s a million things proving the structural change. But you’re too russophobic and too bootlicker of the west to understand any of that or to do any reading on the topic.

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              Right instead of a few high ranking families and one brutal dictator the USSR was run by…

              A few high ranking families and one brutal dictator…

              Fucking tankies bro stg

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                the USSR was run by a few high ranking families

                You literally cannot point to “high ranking families” in the USSR because there was not such a thing. Tell me, what did Stalin’s son rule over? Khruschchev’s? Maybe Brezhnev’s? Nothing. You’re just making shit up as you speak because gommunism bad. Meanwhile, the US has literally family clans in politics (Clintons, Bush, Kennedys). Every accusation is a confession.

                one brutal dictator

                Stalin was brutal… if your source is US State Department propaganda / Wikipedia (same thing). If you’re genuinely interested in learning about the red scare lies you’ve absorbed as a westerner (there’s a reason why Stalin isn’t demonized in places like South America or most of Asia), I recommend you to check out the ongoing podcast episodes of Proles Pod called The Stalin Eras, or Dominico Losurdo’s book “Stalin; The History and Critique of a Black Legend”. If you’re willing to have an honest and open discussion on the topic, feel free to bring up any questions or points that you want to make

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      There are definitely tactics being used to divide the left and the word tankie is not one of them. Purity politics is the death of left wing politics. The fact that people moved out of the way of blocking a legitimate facist government because Harris wasn’t quiiite right is utter insanity

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        There are definitely tactics being used to divide the left and the word tankie is not one of them. Purity politics is the death of left wing politics.

        Why, then, are we running around calling people tankies when that is an ill-defined word that tends to change from person to person? I’ve seen it applied to everyone from left anarchists to starry-eyed idealists who call themselves communists, to actual Stalin-Did-Nothing-Wrong types (this last group deserves criticism, all twelve of them).

        The fact that people moved out of the way of blocking a legitimate facist government because Harris wasn’t quiiite right is utter insanity

        Focusing on an incredibly online, vocal minority is insanity, especially when your previous statement is about purity politics.

        Shouldn’t you question why Harris and the democratic establishment couldn’t beat actual fascism? Could it be that Trump used real issues in our political environment for his messaging? He lies constantly about why the cost of living is going up, why good jobs aren’t here anymore, etc, but Harris ran on a platform of “Vote for me, nothing will fundamentally change” and voters didn’t find that attractive for some reason.

        Even when voices within the party point out problems they are shouted down. Sure, Bernie is an independant, but he’s been voting with the Dems the entire time, and they even pretended to let him run for nomination for president.

        The democratic party has been shifting right for decades, and the only messaging they have to offer is that approved by their donors. It’s bullshit and it repels people.

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          So you’re just gonna sit there and act like propaganda influence on voters is not a thing

          “Oh why could harris not beat fascists why did trump win i guess she just suuucked” is the awareness level of a potato

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            So you’re just gonna sit there and act like propaganda influence on voters is not a thing

            You chose to speak to me, someone who is talking about the word tankie and it’s application here. If you’d like to talk about “propaganda influence” outside of the word tankie, I invite you to make your own top-level comment.

            If you’re implying tankies themselves have amazing propaganda brainwash powers that caused Harris to lose the election, I invite you to touch grass.

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            Are you of the opinion that the propaganda last election made Trump’s victory inevitable? As in, there were no possible candidate or campaign that could have beaten him?

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              That’s a question that sets up its own answer as a foregone conclusion. Rephrase please.

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                I’m just interrogating your statement. Yes, oppositional propaganda is a known phenomenon. It isn’t new. If you are campaigning for election, your job is to overcome it somehow and win. Harris wasn’t lacking funds and she had the (arguable) advantage of running from an incumbent administration, as well as the advantage of running against a clown like Trump.

                There were loud and numerous warnings to and criticisms of her campaign from the left. She ignored that. I can’t prove that’s definitely what cost her the election, but there is no question that she could have run a very different campaign. Blaming her loss on propaganda is weak and defeatist. Find ways to win, not excuses to lose.

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        Purity politics is the death of left wing politics.

        Having standards isn’t “purity politics”. Having no standards got us here.

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    Why would you expect media outlets mostly owned by the Oligarchs to criticize the people the oligarchs want to put into power?

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    I’m just punching right. Tell the Dems to stop standing there.

    And it was the Dems who sued the socialist candidate off of the ballot in my state. Not the GOP. They occupy leftist space to prevent leftward movement, while Dems ally with the GOP to push through fascism.

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      Yep, generalizations work across the board. /s

      Bernie and AOC are democrats. The Republicans and Democrats, although I could understand arguments against this, are humans. They can be greedy, shitty, liars, awesome, for the people and and for the oligarchs.

      I’m always a little suspect when someone in the face of the r’s having convicted rapists, some of them pedos, on their platform, taking away constitutional rights, and tanking the stock market, say the left is too right. Are they? Some, but let’s focus on putting out the fire, not the dumpsters paint job.

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        I don’t really know what to do with this comment.

        I don’t know who you think the left is, or what actions you associate with putting out the fire.

        I believe that the Democratic party leadership is extremely hostile to socialist policies, despite their enormous populist electoral power. Universal healthcare is good policy and good politics. So are jobs guarantees and basic minimum incomes and paid sick leave and free college. I have found that most Democrats who have the power to decide whether they would like voters to associate them with these policies or would like to avoid being associated with them choose the later.

        I’ll vote for the lesser of two evils, because I’m a highly educated supervoter news junkie. But ultimately what costs Democrats their power was not the criticism and anger I and people like me posted online: it was ignoring that criticism when we were warning them that they were running unpopular candidates on unpopular platforms.

        As far as I’m aware, conversations like this one are not hindering the good guys. What’s hindering the good guys is their choices and lack of integrity. The reason people like Chuck Schumer can’t stop Trump is not because I point out that he’s incapable of stopping Trump. It’s the other way around. I point that out because despite all efforts on the part of people like me, Chuck Schumer is unable to decide to stop Trump. That’s an internal problem and most critics of Democrats – which now includes most Democratic voters – are just spectators pointing to this problem.

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        Technically, no, Bernie is an independent who caucuses with dems and runs on their presidential primary ticket. But Bernie supports the dems and I’m with Bernie Sanders on like 95% of policy.

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        Bernie & AOC are center right at best. They’re both still feverishly advocating for sending more arms to extremists in Europe and the Middle East.

        I’m not sure you’ve even seen the left, based on this comment.

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          …that’s not a right wing policy. That’s just a policy you don’t like.

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              Oh so now they’re far right extremists.

              Heard a lot of that said about the IRA as well. Ironically mostly funded by american left wingers.

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                  Not really, I just know that the difference between “terrorist” and “Freedom fighter” is usually very very political.