https://discuss.online/post/29250428/18869440

I thought I'd try my hand at explaining why this meme fundamentally misunderstands communist theory and that I'd better move it here after I posted it, because the people on that community sure love downvoting and/or removing any good point made against the tankie dogma.

Oh, and remember to always lead by challenging tankies' attempts to portray themselves as the ingroup of communism and any critics as the outgroup. That's a tactic they love using, they construct their opinions as the absolute communist truth, and brand any opposing opinion as liberal and capitalist, while also strawmanning it. If you open by criticising their communist credentials, they can't dismiss you as a liberal and pretend they're arguing in good faith.

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[–] 21 points 1 year ago (10 children)

It's important to note that their brand of ideology has always turned out not to be communism, like a Scooby Doo villain pretending to be something they're not

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Authoritarian state capitalism.

    Why would one care whether they are being exploited by American oligarchs or allegedly commie goons.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    You're not campaigning about anything. And no one in a million years would treat anything you say seriously.

    You're an online roleplayer.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Dess, did you make a second account just to jump in here to your own defense?

    Less than a day old account and the only place it's posted is this thread, and the thread it's discussing.

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 1 year ago

    100%, they're like evangelical christians - they spend all day praising the Bible, but if Jesus returned tomorrow morning they'd have him up on a cross by nightfall - If these jokers ever met Karl Marx they'd call him a libshit.

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