“What if we organized as members of the general public and directly opposed the corrupt actions of state officials?”
“Shut up, Tankie.”
haha! Also:
“Hey I think the US might have been lying to us about China and the DPRK”
“OmG TAnKiE SIMPING FOR DiCtAtOrShipS!! rabble rabble rabble”
It truly is crazy to see the South Korean government go through these spasms of corporate consolidation, fascist media turns, and repeated threats of military dictatorship, while liberals scream “Whataboutism!” whenever it makes news.
Did you know the last six South Korean presidents have been prosecuted either during or immediately following their terms in office? And that we’re supposed to believe this is a sign of a healthy and functioning democracy?
Yeah but the Republic of Samsung produces phones while the dictatorship in the north eats mud. Checkmate tankie
If they would just see SK for what it really is, a US vassal state, the things they do would make PERFECT sense, but most will never get there
Yes, I think heads of state should be prosecuted more often. As an American, the lack of prosecutions here is quite troubling to me.
I think heads of state should be prosecuted more often
I mean, I think the problem is that they’re doing crimes more than their frequency of prosecution.
I’d like to believe “more prosecutions will discourage politicians from doing crimes”. But there’s a gap in enforcement, wherein you can get all the way up to the PM/Presidency by committing crimes with impunity. And then you only get caught when you finally lose an election.
You forgot to wedge “authoritarian” in before “dictatorship.”
No one believes US is lying about China and DPRK. China and DPRK are doing a great job of trying really hard to make it all true.
No one believes US is lying about China and DPRK.
“Me and my countrymen accept propaganda without question”
But it says so in the objective Wikipedia bible!
The Holy Scripture of reddit liberalism
Yeah, nah. I can see why you chose that nickname.
Go back to reddit
Me when I am definitely not falling for propaganda because I have diligently and critically read the relevant material with respect to the biases imbedded in them.
No one believes US is lying about China and DPRK.
Then everyone is a sucker.
Here’s another for the list https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/insane-pre-crime-strategy-unveiled
Uh oh .world lib incoming
Yes. Be very afraid. I can do absolutely nothing. So scary.
I can do absolutely nothing.
Typical lib
Removed by mod
All I feel from your comments here is secondhand embarrassment, I’m sure that’s the case for others
The right-wing does want to organize: in favor of white supremacy. If being white puts them higher on the hierarchy, then them can reap material gains while feeling superior. That superiority complex prevents them from anticipating the danger they are in; the division of the working class will be their own downfall when the fascism they enable comes back to extract wealth from the white supremacists.
Nobody uses the word tankie there. Tankie means something specific, a sympathizer for communist or aesthetically communist states which lack either free and fair elections, a freedom to criticize the government, or just general human rights.
Nobody calls people a tankie when talking about domestic politics. People either know what it means and use it correctly, don’t know what it means but identify themselves as a tankie, or they don’t know what it means and basically have nothing to do with the word.
Tankie means something specific, a sympathizer for communist or aesthetically communist states which lack either free and fair elections, a freedom to criticize the government, or just general human rights.
I’d like to offer a correction:
Tankie means something specific, a sympathizer for socialist states which are alleged by liberals to lack either free and fair elections, a freedom to criticize the government, or just general human rights.
I fully agree that the definition you gave is the one that wielders of the pejorative believe to be true, but I’d argue my definition is more accurate as it accounts for the fact that “tankies” do not believe the allegations against socialist states to be true or to be highly exaggerated and removed from historical context in liberal narratives.
Whenever a socialist is accused of being a “tankie,” they generally have 1 of 3 choices:
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Attack the validity of the pejorative as a real ideology
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Accept the pejorative, and use this to move onto discussing specifics, forcing the accuser’s hand
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Accept that “tankies” can and do exist, but try to convince your interlocutor that you aren’t one of them.
The third is the most common among western leftists, and also happens to be the most self-defeating. Only options 1 and 2 actually present a path forward for socialists. You can replace “tankie” above with “woke” and the argument still applies, you can either own the label or attack the validity of the label to move forward.
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Lol. Good joke
This is the lore of liberalism.
And even in the rare cases that they do have referendums, the result can just be ignored
Despite the result of the referendum, the government of Tsipras reached an agreement on 13 July 2015 with the European authorities for a three-year-bailout with even harsher austerity conditions than the ones already rejected by voters.
Dang, kick a population while it’s down.
AND their colonies. we get our fair share of bullshit from the washington consensus and the imf.
whoopsie doopsie, fascist puppets in power again. 🤗😍☺️❤️
Protest doesn’t change nothing, it maintains and promotes political activism, which fights voter apathy. It’s hard to see the results of it directly so it feels like it doesn’t do anything, but studies show you get better voter turnout after protests.
Thanks for reminding me to block lemmy.ml
You gotta be some deep turbo shitlib to take offense with this post.
I mean, personally I started rolling my eyes when I saw the comment section almost immediately turned into .ml users simping HARD for China and North Korea, despite literally no one bringing them up.
“I personally started rolling my eyes when I made up something that wasn’t happening to get mad at!”
almost immediately turned into .ml users simping HARD for China and North Korea
“Hey I think the US might have been lying to us about China and the DPRK”
“OmG TAnKiE SIMPING FOR DiCtAtOrShipS!! rabble rabble rabble”
Thank you for providing an example for everyone.
simping
I’m not a political expert, is it good or bad when your political ideology uses incel lingo to lie to itself about what it’s opponents think?
This is quite possibly the mildest critique. I have seen more radical rhetoric from DNC liberals.
Good riddance
byeeee
Sweet! One less .worlder zionazi lib to worry about
You’re welcome 😊
Thank you for voluntarily liberating us from your degenerate idiocy.
Maybe hold off on using terminology like “degenerate,” it has fascist implications. I agree with the sentiment, but we should be careful with wording.
That’s fair, I’ll workshop it for the next lib that gets lost. Something with some sting but that doesn’t potentially veer into that territory.
Critical support for the shitlibs who want to leave
