Banned from Lefty Memes for not agreeing with the complexity of Stalin *having* to ally with Hitler to invade Poland.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/52771657

Banned from Lefty Memes for not agreeing with the complexity of Stalin *having* to ally with Hitler to invade Poland. - Divisions by zero

Apparently I’m now a shitlib for not buying into this disgusting tankie propaganda that it was all the Wests fault and Stalin had to ally with Hitler. For a mod who loves to ban others for bad jacketing, they sure have no problem doing it to other anarchists. The Ban: [https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/2582c55b-d28a-45e1-8723-52a159f0ae20.webp] The Context: [https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/0b660c79-5faa-4669-89bd-639987323941.webp]

There was way more nuance to the situation. The moderator linked a good summary of the false equivalence, as well as the extra context.

you showed up to be like: “fucked up, tankie defending Nazi alliance” as if history began and ended in 1939.

YDI, I can see how you ended up a ‘world news’ moderator though

tankie punks fuck off
I’m actually an anarchist, but you’re gonna use whatever pejorative makes you comfortable

You just like to say you are. You’re anti-ukraine and from russia. You put up more tankie posts and anti-dem posts than anything critical of the repubs.

You’re a tankie.

The reason I am often pissed at the democrats is due to how bad they are at actually opposing the republicans.

You’re just a ‘team blue’ maga type

You’re just a ‘team blue’ maga type

What does that mean, exactly?

What does ‘team blue’ maga mean?

The guy I was responding to has in this very thread said:

In response to criticism of ‘the west’: ‘you don’t like it? leave’

Please move to russia or NK. You tankies enjoying western civ while shouting down at how evil we are, is rich.

That’s like something I would unironically hear from a republican

Upholding ‘western civilization’ because capitalism somehow lifts people out of poverty, again this could easily come from a maga republican, this person just happens to be on team blue.

Western civ like it or not has pulled more people out of poverty than any other civ in human history

For me ‘blue maga’ are the people who are western chauvinists but act like they’re above it all because they voted for ‘the good guys’ running the soul harvester.

It’s sure not an explanation for how the public record of your actions (and oft expressed opinons) appears to wildly differ from the values you’re claiming to hold…

Is being an anarchist somehow contingent on passing a geopolitical opinion litmus test? I organize with anarchists, I shit on the russian government all the fucking time for being a capitalist shithole. I shit on the US government all the fucking time for being a capitalist shithole. I happen to have ended up living in the US due to the various political upheavals in mine (and my parents) lifetimes. As a result I tend to criticize the US more directly as I am not a fan of my taxes getting turned into dead children abroad.