That’s because cowbee is a huge piece of shit. Dude lives in the west and has no clue what it was like under the ussr. If he wants to move to russia I’ll pay for the plane ticket and sunflower seeds he can put in his pocket.
I have family who have died in Poland from the ussr occupation and in Ukraine as well. These western tankies can go fuck themselves. To me this is the equivalent of the right wing praising the nazis.
Yeah, pretty much. I guess the speculative lore progression is:
Lemmy.ml developers become communist because they value human freedom and economic justice 👍️
Dessalines goes further than that into pro-China and pro-USSR because he’s young and like a lot of people has more idealism than sense and detailed knowledge, and attention-seeking iconoclasty is fun 🤔
Entire instances crop up full of people who love to “dunk on the libs” and be edgelords by posting pro-North Korea and pro-CCP content 😐
State actors join in to egg up the content and work to direct it subtly or unsubtly at the Democrats and NATO 🙁
Russian expats join in because they need a community and this is literally the only place that is accessible to them that will tell them that “their people” are anyone other than the villains ☹️ <- This comment thread is here
Groupthink intensifies, borders of the in-group solidify, anyone who questions the narrative get banned ☹️
“Hey guys can we have some of your money for Lemmy development” 🙄
I wouldn’t say this is due to simply being far-left. It may have started as such, but then they decided to subdue their political beliefs to geopolitics, and pursue geopolitical beliefs first and foremost. And those geopolitical beliefs favor a competition-minded worldview, a “might makes right” one, and a black’n’white perception. Tankies have just started being fanatic for one of the sides, almost being nationalists for another country, just like far-rightists.
An authoritarians only priority is their authority. Their economic leanings can flip on a dime depending on what’s convenient. So technically they are economically centrist by circumstance. But have never been meaningfully left in any sense.
That’s because cowbee is a huge piece of shit. Dude lives in the west and has no clue what it was like under the ussr. If he wants to move to russia I’ll pay for the plane ticket and sunflower seeds he can put in his pocket.
I have family who have died in Poland from the ussr occupation and in Ukraine as well. These western tankies can go fuck themselves. To me this is the equivalent of the right wing praising the nazis.
red fascism is still fascism. tankies are conservatives wearing a fluffier hat
I think it boils down to extreme beliefs. It is no longer rational.
Yeah, pretty much. I guess the speculative lore progression is:
You hit the nail on the head
they went so far left, they end up being on the right/autotharian.
I wouldn’t say this is due to simply being far-left. It may have started as such, but then they decided to subdue their political beliefs to geopolitics, and pursue geopolitical beliefs first and foremost. And those geopolitical beliefs favor a competition-minded worldview, a “might makes right” one, and a black’n’white perception. Tankies have just started being fanatic for one of the sides, almost being nationalists for another country, just like far-rightists.
An authoritarians only priority is their authority. Their economic leanings can flip on a dime depending on what’s convenient. So technically they are economically centrist by circumstance. But have never been meaningfully left in any sense.