From “We don’t have a tankie problem” to “Wow, all these people we’ve been asspatting are fucking tankies”
But don’t worry, the groupthink will set in and they’ll go back to “Saying that MLs aren’t red fascists is totally not tankie”
Funny how db0 actually acknowledges they have double standards regarding tankies and yet Unruffled remains an admin. Their instance can’t possibly be attracting tankies because at least one of the admins is openly supporting them /s
Db0 themself has double standards. They’ll go from denouncing tankies in one comment, then defending the biggest tankies on the platform in the next. Their inaction, as you pointed out, further speaks to this. Where they will denounce tankies, but then do nothing about said tankies like keeping them as moderators.
Allowing a community to exist despite holding it under a critical stance should not seem so alarming or outrageous.
ML’s are well informed? Well informed about gibberish and world salad?
Most are well read and strongly informed about the developments, recent and historical, surrounding the various prominent ongoing political struggles.
Most are neither well-read nor ‘strongly informed’, unless coprophagic transmission of fascist propaganda is what you count as ‘strongly informed’.
You are conflating issues that are distinct.
Not well read enough to understand the hypocrisy inherent to tankie views (and the implication for enabling such russian/chinese propaganda).
You shifted the goalposts.
Saying “you shifted the goalposts” is not a magical I win button.
I stand by what I say, ML’s are not knowledge about most things that they discuss and are often extremely hypocritical.
They may be hypocritical. They also tend to be informed about current political struggles ongoing around the world.
Bullshit. It’s all online roleplay. It’s either trying to be edgy, open and committed demagoguery or complete disconnection from reality.
I will give you a good anecdote. This was when I still had a Twitter account.
Certain commie statues were being removed in Kyiv and this was highlight by the British ambassador. Bunch of scumbag ML’s started to chimp out about this.
My reply was: “You’ve never been to Ukraine, you don’t don’t speak Ukrainian, you don’t walk in Kyiv’s park, you don’t pay local taxes, you live in the UK and you’re coming up with this bullshit…”
The reply I got was “This is your history!!! Communism bla bla bla”
You got to be a special case of stupid to say something like that.
I said they tend to be informed, not that they are necessarily pleasant or tolerant.
Made-up struggles, like Ukraine being a Western puppet used to fight Russia, rather than it being a dictator acting on his imperialist idea of rebuilding the Soviet Union. Ask a tankie about the Holodomor and you’ll see the actual depth of their so-called knowledge.
Your parroting of State Department talking points is not the mark of someone well informed.
