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      • Nadya@kbin.social
        43·
        1 year ago

        Since you didn’t notice that in that post /u/parentis_shotgun claims to have made Jerboa and links to it - which links to github.com/dessalines/jerboa - you’re not very observant so I’ll provide you with some alternative posts as evidence.

        Step 1) Visit /u/parentis_shotgun’s profile

        Step 2) Old PgDn to load some posts. Find the one that says nothing but “Yes” on it. This post specifically.

        Step 3) Click Context to see which question it is answering

        Step 4) Read the question: “Wait a second, are you the same dessalines that narrated my The State and Revolution by Lenin and Fascism: What it is and how to fight it by Trotsky?”

        Step 5) See /u/parentis_shotgun’s response: “Yes.”

        “Misinformation”.

        Ask yourself: What exactly do you get out of defending Tankies?

        Alternative route #1: Find parentis_shotgun’s post about creating thumb-key - a privacy-conscious Android keyboard made for your thumbs. Notice it links to a Github profile for dessalines.

        Alternative route #2: Find this post where they keep their “communist 101s” on dessalines.github.io/essays/

          • Nadya@kbin.social
            33·
            1 year ago

            I dislike genocide apologists about as much as I dislike liars and people who spread misinformation. It’s trivially easy to confirm who /u/parentis_shotgun is - so calling it misinformation is blatantly lying especially when their first point is blatantly wrong.

            People can be OK with the dev being a Tankie (“separate the art from the artist” which is a terrible philosophy in its own right but people are welcome to believe in it this more of a philosophical difference) but denying that the dev is a Tankie is where I cross the line. The dev is a Tankie. Do with that information what you will but there is no denying it.

              • Nadya@kbin.social
                12·
                1 year ago

                See: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ziq-tankies-and-the-left-unity-scam

                But if that’s far too much reading - here’s a TL;DR that’s two paragraphs from it that sums it up nicely.

                Tankies celebrate Lenin and Trotsky’s massacres of socialist revolutionaries, including the Mensheviks, the sailors of Petrograd, the Socialist Revolutionaries, the anarchists, unaffiliated peasants who had their food confiscated and so on. Tankies also celebrate murdering ‘kulaks’, a word they use to describe any peasant that resisted Soviet imperialism, but especially the Ukrainian peasants that resisted sending all their food to Russia, which they rightly guessed would lead to mass-starvation and one of the worst atrocities in history; the catastrophic Holodomor man-made famine.

                A tankie is anyone who presents themselves as a ‘communist’, but engages in apologism for torture, slavery, imprisonment, imperialism, capitalism, genocide and the erasure of actually liberatory movements. A tankie is anyone that claims communism can be achieved by replacing a state with another state. A tankie is anyone that will swear up and down that state-capitalism, dictator personality cults and ecosystem-destroying mass-industry will eventually lead to communism through the “withering away” of the brutal state that they uphold.