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.