Get a load of this user, supposedly this comm is supposed to be making fun of reactionaries doing the “vuvuzuelaiphone” thing but suspiciously is posting nothing but anti tankie memes, curious 🤔
Edit: to be 100% accurate because I’m not a liberal, it appears that the comm name is misleading and it’s just a general meme sub for “leftists”, still quite funny that the only memes they’re posting are anti tankie memes
https://lemmy.ml/c/vuvuzelaiphone
Another totally serious and not laughable community. Why do reactionaries like this think they’re leftist?
Anti-“tankies” barely hide their racism anymore. Most anti-tankies are cowardly neoliberals (I repeat myself) that need bullets in their heads, if they can’t be reformed.
Their levels of racism, gaslighting, minimizing, projection, annoyance, false equivalency, and laziness drives my anger to a boil that makes the Planck-Temperature look like fucking ice cream-absolute zero with a douse of liquid nitrogen by comparison.
I genuinely do not believe it’s possible to re-educate a western liberal anymore tbh.
I’d have to disagree, with my own anecdotal evidence. Remember, there’s plenty of people who aren’t staunch anti-communists but have had too much capitalist propaganda in the US education system. Reeducation takes time.
I’m still working to try to figure out what the truth is and what I am, but I’m glad I found this community.
Exactly comrade! It is so demoralizing when every person is so deep in their own shit to realize what the world really smells like, but a hint of fresh air can start anyone on a journey to re-education and realization. Even myself, as this is where I came from.
I’m a self-selected individual for learning. I seek out knowledge myself, not everybody is this way. But with enough time and effort others will understand, especially when it gets so bad that it’s hard to defend the status quo anymore. And we’re getting there now, hence the rise in different flavors of communism.
Yeah, also stinks that the education system has to be so full of reactionaries intentionally spreading capitalist propaganda while acting like only the communists do it.
At least the Sanders campaign helped people wake up to the idea socialism is beneficial and not a dirty word!
it is if the stars align… i had considered myself a liberal for most of my life because i was one… i hated the system but i never looked beyond it and was blind to reality.
one day that changed… people i respected shit all over me for something i thought we were definitely all in the same page about. i got all upset and started digging for information to prove them wrong and discovered a whole other mindset out there that aligned far better with what i felt deep down then i was able to go back and read posts and tweets in a whole new light and everything made so much more sense. and i got even more pissed, but pissed for the right reasons this time. pissed that i had been so blind all my life and never bothered to try to think for myself. pissed that everyone i knew personally was just as blind and now hated when i tried to tell them to also look beyond the programming… because of course that’s a tired and played out trope that everyone has heard a hundred times.
i dunno, i think if someone sincerely believes that things are not right with the world they can open their mind given the right opportunity to crack through that seemingly impenetrable wall of self-satisfied ignorance and pride.
but you can’t force anyone to see it
Here’s the issue with your sign: I don’t believe them ‘brainwashed’ or ‘especially naive’. I believe them willfully evil; and willfully ignorant. A horse might be led to water, but you’ll drown it before it drinks these days.
You didn’t read the article then. A point it makes is that the western masses aren’t just brainwashed, they willfully buy in. A USian sees an article demonizing China is made to feel good about his own status quo.
precisely but it’s really just the path of least resistance
Western leftist: I want socialism!
Reactionary: no, you don’t! Venezuela is not doing great and it’s socialist. ignores context of sanctions its also, evil and brown.
Western leftist: well, then I don’t want that kind of socialism. I want a new whiter, purer socialism like Western Europe.
Did western Europe stop being western?
I think QueerCommie means to joke about Western leftists who think Scandinavian social democracy is socialism.
I think it’s called feudalism?
Personally I’d want to deal with this kind of people only if they directly interfere with Marxist movement and I wouldn’t mind not interacting with them at all. This idealist ideology has very little revelance outside of it’s inner circles and I see no reason to care about it, at least for the sake of our mental health. I’m just glad they are not here and don’t have the opportunity to posion this community with their infantile hostility towards Marxists-Leninists.
this is more supposed to be a point and laugh post
I get the sentiment, but I don’t think anti-tankies should be left unconfronted.
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Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeah that settler’s not even worth the time to drag with ‘numbers’ like that
I haven’t looked at the specific example you posted, this is just in general about anti-tankie leftists:
It makes sense to me that anti-authoritarian leftists would be against authoritarianism even if it’s left leaning, just like they’re also against libertarian right
Putting aside the fact that authoritarian and “tankie” are meaningless at this point, it’s still telling that these so called “leftists” always seem to spend 90+% of their time fighting “tankies” instead of reactionaries
On a diet but still willing to eat the rich (and their reactionary lackeys).
