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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (9 children)

On the other hand there's also an overrepresentation of tankies. I don't think those are the same people.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

"Tankie" is to liberals as "woke" is to conservative liberals and fascists.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

What word would you prefer to someone who tells you to your face that they intend to "put you up against the wall" and then asks if you "know what that means, you fucking lib"?

I mean, I'm a demsoc, and of the last 20 death threats I have received in my life, 15 came from people who identify as Communist-Leninist. PLEASE give me a better word for them.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What word would you prefer to someone who tells you to your face that they intend to "put you up against the wall" and then asks if you "know what that means, you fucking lib"?

Based

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Funny because of the dozens, if not hundreds, of death threats I've gotten, practically all of them come from zionists, NAFOs, keyboard nazis or the occasional trumpeteer.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah!? Well I've received thousands, no, millions of death threats!

Who are you people?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Full disclosure, as a leftist I avoid those far-right areas like the plague. I'm quite certain I would receive more far-right death threats if I did not.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

so you admit that you get mostly leftist death threats because you avoid groups that would send more?

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't know the difference between a demsoc and a socdem. You're not any kind of socialist, just a lib who likes the idea of being seen as leftist.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

And I bet you're fun at parties. Please oh great psychic, tell me more about myself?

And actually, I do know the difference between demsoc and socdem. The formal definition for Social Democrat is "a supporter or advocate of a socialist system of government achieved by democratic means." That we are constantly painted as "filthy liberal" for wanting to respect the will of the majority is a disappointing and disgusting lie. And the ONLY people who accuse socdems of being fake leftists? TANKIES. Who are not, by any meaningful definition, more left than those of us with a soul.

The only way I'm not a leftist is if your version of leftism says "fuck people, freedom, or democracy". In **your ** version of leftism, are you ok with being the 1% ruling by force against 99% who hate you? Think very carefully before replying to that.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

And I bet you're fun at parties

smuglord

Social Democrat is "a supporter or advocate of a socialist system of government achieved by democratic means."

That's what a demsoc is. Social democrats support capitalism with social programs.

Who are not, by any meaningful definition, more left than those of us with a soul.

Speaking of succdems look how even in their mind palace they're already dehumanizing anyone to the left of them. This helps when they cooperate with and enable fascist parties like they do every time in history. "Tankies don't have a soul and they're going to kill you first so it's okay to let the nazis kill them actually" I'm a REAL leftist :D

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

God, you're such a big dumb idiot of a lib. That's the definition of a democratic socialist, not a social democrat - you can tell by the way one of the groups are call socialists and the others are called democrats. Not only did you mix up your definitions, but you never actually managed to define democratic socialist - do you really know what the difference is if you can't even remember to talk about one of them? The answer, scrolling down your post history to where you called yourself a socdem, is no, you think they're the exact same thing, because you don't even have a surface level understanding of leftism. It only takes 5 minutes in leftist spaces to discover that anarchists, socialists, and communists of all flavour hate socdems for exactly your "no really, somehow we'll manage to vote socialism in this time" attitude, but you've never spent a single minute in them, because you're not a leftist.

My version of leftism is called Marxism and is based in historical reality and current material conditions. Your version is fantastical utopianism that's convinced the elite are just going to give up the reigns any day now.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Death threats are an inappropriate and disproportiate response but have you considered that it is because you're more irritating to the left than you are to the right? Especially given how right wingers historically are massively more violent?

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh fuck off lol. The biggest instance literally preemptively removedd from everyone left of Bernie Sanders. Go back to reddit if you're afraid of getting called out for being politically illiterate.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm guessing your autocorrect didn't like the word "defederated" and turned it into a word that's a slur if you don't include the 'd' at the end? lol

also I agree with your comment.

edit- Who wouldn't want to be called an outfox?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol yeah I was on my way back from my lunch break when I typed that no clue what it autocorrected too

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm guessing it dropped the F and rearranged the rest into the R slur. I can't think of any other word with most of those letters, and it is a word otuside of the slur context, a verb meaning "to slow down"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Defederate but with a g for the f and a n for the d is also filtered iirc.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

yep that was probably it lol

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Are the tankies in the room with us right now sweetie?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Hell yeah we are

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, they're distributed. And federated.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

I’m coming to put you in the gulag and seize your property

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (5 children)

there's no such thing as a tankie, the word literally has no meaning

Death to America

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

tankies

Did you mean communists? Common westerner mistake

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Everyone to the left of me isn't being actively purged from the platform and it's not to my tastes"

Fucking leave then

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Lol, that's not what they said at all. Somebody seems a little defensive.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

What's a tankie?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

Frankly i don't think there's nearly enough tankies to offset the neolibs but i have a feeling I'm in the minority. Eh! Fun times we're in

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