dsmaster7173important rulepost
LemmyAtemHonest question - what's a tankie? I feel like I've seen them mentioned a ton on Lemmy but I'd never heard the term prior to a few days ago. From the image it looks like a maga/skinhead combo?
StalinsMoustachetankie is a boogeyman liberals and online "anarchists" use. it gives them something to rage at instead of fascists and capitalists.
mounderfodI am capable of disagreeing with multiple ideologies at once
Okay but some of them are in power right in front of you and vastly more bloodthirsty and likely to be responsible for your misery.
OK but the solution to the far-right isn't to barrel towards the far-left
You're so right, centrism must be the correct answer🥴. Let us all just pretend that both sides equally bad while passively support right wing reactionaries😍
I never said both sides were equally bad, I'm saying that extremism in any form has negative outcomes.
What you are doing is employing the argument to moderation fallacy as if some golden middle point is always the correct answer. Communists and anarchists are the only people who care about my rights, liberals and centrist only care about me when it is time to virtue signal for votes and then do nothing for me. Being a centrist is the most selfish, ignorant and privileged position to take, you try to act like you don't support the far-right but being a centrist and doing nothing only serves the current hierarchies in place which harm marginalized groups.
I feel like you're having an argument with a different person here. I am not a centrist.
Sure feels like a centrist when you equate far-left and far-right🤷♀️
I'm not equating them, I'm just saying that I disagree with both; I've said this like 10 times
Yah, like a centrist... crazy how that works.
Radlibs are centrists who like progressive consumer-lifestyle politics. "Anarchists" are either radlibs or extremists.
"extremism" is distance from the status quo, it doesn't have inherent properties in terms of the outcome because it is a relative term.
Why not?
Funny how liberals who say this only seem to disagree with communism, I guess capitalism offers you enough treats to not give a fuck about other people😘
Funny how you assume I am pro-capitalism because I don't agree with you
Well spouting anti-communist beliefs would lead to that assumption, funny how that works😵💫😉
Am I not allowed to disagree with your ideology, while also disagreeing with others? I'm not "spouting" anything
No😎💅, I don't want to hear bad takes from the mouth of a privileged centrist who would watch me be hate-crimed and do nothing as that would be too 'extremist'.
so because I disagree with communism, I don't want to help minorities? you're making one hell of a jump there
Well... yeah :)
there's no point in me discussing this with you if you're going to set up a strawman and call it bigoted
I don't know feels logical, the only people fighting for minority rights are the far left. I don't see any centrist parties doing anything but virtue signal.
you do realise there's a gap between far left and centre?
Oh you are thinking of social reformists who twiddle their thumbs while conditions worsen by the minute in the global south, but any direct action is seen as too extreme. You can't vote socialism into existence through a capitalist "democracy".
OK, you are entitled to your opinion, but I am not going to listen to your angry commets towards me any further, please address any further concerns to literally anyone else :)
Of course I am going to call out a liberal who will sell out the working class for capitalist treats 🤦♀️ Libs will be the end of us all...
Tante RegenbogenInstead of fascists and capitalists
MLs not realizing that they are pretty much both.