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It’s actually quite ironic that you’d talk about ideological purity, when you don’t have to look far on Lemmy to find “leftists” calling social democrats rebranded fascists. Wake up and stop getting your politics from teenagers.

I have no idea why you mentioned this. What does this have to do with me?

But to your greater point: Are there going to be ideological differences that matter? Of course. I'm not saying not to debate or defend positions for the sake of refining and strengthening ideology, I'm saying don't do it for the sake of stroking yourself off to how ideologically pure you are, especially when you go about doing so in a way that doesn't actually help refine and strengthen the ideology but rather muddies it all up with a bunch of reductive and useless buzzwords and short-hands.

We should be saving our ire for the unsaveable so far past the ideological divide as to where no commonality can be found; if we actually give a shit about making any progress we should be approaching anyone winnable with nuance and confidence, and not reductivism and hand-waving.

If you truly aren't a tankie and believe that the path forward can be achieved as a peaceful people's revolution, then you have to remember that winning people over is an enormous component to that strategy

Or ban them, whatever. Just stop fucking stroking yourself off to how fucking elite commie leftist you are for it