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“The left” is a joke (lemmy.world)
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[–] -1 points 1 month ago (12 children)

The auth-left does oppose the auth-right, so your pedantry is both unnecessary and unappreciated as it drives the exact divisiveness among [whatever preferred term you choose for the group we both know I'm talking about] that I'm criticizing.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    So what? Whether the auth-left or the auth-right, talk about pedantic. It's the auth. IT'S THE AUTH.

    and I don't appreciate your lack of appreciation

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    I'm well-aware both flavors of hyper-authoritarianism are bad, I'm pointing out that your picking fights with people who oppose fascism is the exact counter-productive bickering I was criticizing.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    There was this dude at work I was trying to get to watch the first couple episodes of andor season 2 because the bickering in the woods rang so similar to liberals and leftists arguing, especially online. The rebels capture Andor(literal revenge driven super antifa spy and movement leader) by chance while he's undercover and proceed to bicker among themselves and split their ranks in half while an ambush draws closer. Too busy with vanity and their purity tests to find common ground with their allies

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Fascinatingly, just like in Andor, peace-makers between the bickerers are vilified too.

    Pretty dumb, but then again we're not that different from the lesser apes.

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  • [–] -5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Tankies don't have left aligned values, only left aligned appearance.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Frankly this is some No True Leftist stuff. Tankies want to bring about socialism via an intermediary step of brutality. You could definitely argue that such a step is not True Socialism, and I think you'd be right, but I took a shit today that wasn't True Socialism so does that mean the next thing I did was not socialism?

    For the record, I don't like tankies either, but there's plenty of space to push back against them without relying on bad faith arguments.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    They want their label of socialism, not yours. And it's a rather brutal one.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago

    There's no way to know that, so I keep such blanket declarations to myself, as should you.

    In my opinion, the biggest problem with tankies is that they are "ends justify the means" people.

    Some of them seek a benevolent end-state. Some seek an end-state that personally benefits them. There's no way to tell which is which.

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