• Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    Pretty good actually. Once you go outside and actually try to organize you will quickly realize that most of those so called tankies are human beings that you can talk with and that leftist movements are way too small for it to be a good idea to split up in groups that fight each other instead of the common enemy.

    There are some people and organizations on the left that I dislike but that is mostly because their structure facilitates concealment of abuse in their own ranks. I don’t have anything against them from a broader political perspective.

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      2 days ago

      No the buck stops at supporting organizations that commit crimes against humanity. You simply cannot maintain moral consistency by claiming you hate the U.S. only to turn around and simp for Russia and China.

      I don’t care if tankies are human beings, much in the same way that I don’t care that nazis are human beings. Zero tolerance for extremists, which tankies absolutely are.

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      3 days ago

      The common enemy includes places like China or Russia that lock up LGBT people and make their lives miserable. I don’t ally myself with people who defend those countries, why do you?

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        2 days ago

        Again, I have met almost no actual leftists that support Russia. Those are a strawman and maybe a tiny fringe group on the net. One thing I’ve seen is that most leftists show their solidarity to the population of those countries which may get misconstrued by bad actors as solidarity to the countries themselves. Why do you ally yourself to people who call russians subhumans?

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          1 day ago

          Have you never interacted with the triad? They routinely express support for Russia and China because “they fight against nato/us imperialism”.

          And I don’t, I ally myself with anarchists. You can talk all the shit you want about people calling Russian people subhuman, I won’t defend them or lose any sleep over it.