• unfreeradical@slrpnk.netEnglish
    34·
    2 days ago

    Anarchists are not tankies.

    Also, the reason some leftists supported Assad was a hope to hasten the collapse of US imperialism, which causes massive death and suffering around the world. Criticizing such a stance as misguided is credible only if accompanied by a comparably critical stance against the even more deadly abuses of US imperialism.

    • amino@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      63·
      2 days ago

      anarchists arent tankies but Lenin Glazers like the admin irrefutably are.

      Criticizing such a stance as misguided is credible only if accompanied by a comparably critical stance against the even more deadly abuses of US imperialism

      there isn’t a single anti-Assad anarchist that wouldn’t also critique the US. nice try, maybe leave the strawman arguments at the door next time

      • unfreeradical@slrpnk.netEnglish
        63·
        2 days ago

        The posted comment never mentions Lenin.

        You are being deliberately dishonest.

        Also, you are the one who just now presented not one, but several straw men.

        When did I imply that “there [is] a single anti-Assad anarchist that wouldn’t also critique the US”? Again, you are being dishonest.

        • goat@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
          31·
          2 days ago

          It is on topic, dude. Lenin and tankies are closely related, so are anarchists being tankie glazers.

          • unfreeradical@slrpnk.netEnglish
            31·
            2 days ago

            It breaks your own rules against derailing threads, and your defense is little more than a word salad of unsubstantiated dogma.

            Anarchists are the strongest critics of authoritarian tendencies of leftism. Anarchists were targets of some of the earliest repression after the October Revolution, and Kropotkin famously fled the Soviet Union as an open and caustic critic of Lenin.

            Anarchists by nature are the strongest critics of any authoritarianism because anarchism entails opposition to all authority.

            Your failure to distinguish between anarchists and authoritarian leftists is ignorant and absurd.

            • goat@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
              32·
              24 hours ago

              Anarchists aren’t strong critics at all lol

              You can’t even condemn Hamas, who are authoritian in itself.

              • unfreeradical@slrpnk.netEnglish
                32·
                2 days ago

                You don’t know or care about historical and actual facts.

                You don’t listen, or argue honestly.

                Of course we criticize Hamas, but we also support their struggle to liberate Palestine from occupation, apartheid, and genocide.

                Again, I cannot help if you are unable to parse the nuance, instead of continuing to perceive a conflict.

                • goat@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
                  22·
                  2 days ago

                  When I asked if you condemn the rape and murder of civilians you told me to get lost lol

                  So no, you don’t criticise Hamas. I mean it’s pretty easy to criticise rape, ‘Hey, guys, probably don’t rape that woman to death and then parade her corpse through town while recording it’ – Makes it really hard for Tankies to squirm around muh nuance

                  • unfreeradical@slrpnk.netEnglish
                    32·
                    2 days ago

                    Again, you are parroting Zionist propaganda. No one should feel compelled to take you seriously.

          • unfreeradical@slrpnk.netEnglish
            52·
            2 days ago

            What an absurd defense.

            Once again, you deflect with an accusation that is completely unsubstantiated, an obvious non sequitur.