The comments are what you expect. All agree that we’re psychopaths who support genocide and just want authority as a goal in itself. All agree we do no leftist praxis, I guess just based on vibes. One user wrote:

let’s be honest, they should be removed from society

which is cool. One-on-one, online or in person, I’m pretty patient with people like this, but when I see a whole thread like this with hundreds of upvotes and no pushback it makes me feel tired.

lemmy.ml link in case any of you have alts and want to wade in: https://lemmy.ml/post/6930975

The democracy thread she commented in right before posting this: https://lemmy.ml/comment/5160468

  • Kras MazovEnglish
    44·
    11 months ago

    I used to lurk on r/196 a lot. Doing that actually helped push me further left than I was before and it felt like a safe space by being so pro-LGBT. But after becoming a communist, seeing how “anti-tankie” and liberal they often are, it’s just sad really. I feel like there’s a sizable portion of people there that just want to feel they belong and end up buying into the whole “anti-tankie” narrative without knowing better.

    Also, this image in particular is fucking insulting. Equating us to nazis is not only revolting, it shows how little they understand of what they are talking about.

    • beef_curds [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      34·
      11 months ago

      I honestly don’t even remember the anti-tankie stuff was that common early on. It was always around, but at some point it got really thick really fast.

      I sometimes wonder if it was during the Keffals/kiwifarms arc, which brought in a lot of vaushites.

      The lemmy 196 is even worse than the reddit one. They’re just constantly on, and see themselves as coldwarriors fighting the red menace. Meanwhile, they let weirdass views to their right just slide by.

      I thought there was a chance lemmy 196 would be less weird, and opened an account there even, but it’s just all the mods doing redscare all the time. Fuck that place.

      • Kras MazovEnglish
        15·
        11 months ago

        I wasn’t there from the beginning, but I remember at least seeing some anti-tankie sentiment, and it definitely got worse over the short time I was lurking there. One time I remember was just after opening again after the reddit protests, where there was this same image posted there with loads of people commenting.

        I also almost joined their instance here on Lemmy like you did, but I decided to join Lemmygrad after seeing their anti-tankie banner lol.