cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/tankiejerk/p/635809/i-can-excuse-transphobia-and-covid-denial-but-i-draw-the-line-at-anti-communism-and-criticis
Ever faithful Cowbee will tolerate transphobic admins because they’re communist
PieFed is worse than transphobia because it’s anti-communist
Nutomic will stop being transphobic by 2050.
Is PieFed even anti-communist? I wouldn’t really describe Lemmy.world that way personally.
I’m assuming the racism claim is also nonsense but just in case I’d be curious to know specifically what that’s about. Just for criticism of the Chinese government?
They’re conflating anti-authoritarian with anti-communist because it suits their narrative.
Yeah I assume this is exactly what’s happening.
After some pointless arguments with tankies recently someone accused me of being anti-communist and they were incredulous when I expressed ambivalence about it. They truly don’t seem to be aware of the existence of non-authoritarian communists, or at least they pretend not to. Hard to imagine how you could exist in a leftist community and not be aware of like ancoms, etc.
PieFed isn’t anti communist, no. But it is anti-tankie, and I believe one of the reasons it was created was to oppose the Lemmy developers spending more time arguing and banning people than developing Lemmy.
Well most people are anti-tankie that’s just a normal opinion lol
funnily enough most people don’t even know what a tankie is lol
Outside niche online communities and the hordes of tweets, Tankies hold no political relevance. Ironically, the only thing holding up communism’s relevance are boomers fearing the Red Scare from their childhood. Nowadays though, socialism is becoming a liberal idea. Again, ironic for the poor tankie.
Well, they know what it is they just don’t know the word. The issue is more they don’t know about other types of leftists/communists so they just call them that.
I know that tank is is something to do with politics but frankly don’t care what cause politics are yucky (politics confuse me and are boring)