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Guys, at this rate I don't think the revolution's going to happen anytime soon.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

I need someone to explain to me why I should be guilted into staying on Facebook, Twitter, etc.

By this logic I should be on truth social trying to make it “a better place.” This is fucking stupid. The sites are built on rage bait, The algorithms want to keep you angry and fighting with people online. You are fighting against massive companies who have weaponized your data against you for the purpose of making sure you hang around. The only correct decision is to leave.

We need to build our own spaces and defend them.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

The Left: Fractured Butt Hole. 😞

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (25 children)

As a leftist its also important to keep in mind we do differentiate between leftists who hold some opinions we disagree with compared to a Liberal who disagrees with us on nearly everything. Especially when said Liberals demand to be treated like leftists yet support imperalism, genocide, apartheid, capitalism, bigotry, and yet constantly call people "fake leftists" or "tankies".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It's a strange state of affairs, there is a right wing recruitment pipeline deticated to making fun of liberals for being "cringe but also wrong"™.

An interesting experament you can do, replace "leftist", "the left" and "liberal" with "SJW" (swap the insider and outsider language) and ask yourself how much and in what interesting ways does the sentimate of the post change.

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

Damn SJWs supporting checks notes imperialism, bigotry and capitalism

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And how do we do that?

This is the internet, everyone is as anonymous as they want to be. Lots of people find these posts by browsing by All, so they're not likely to be aware of (or care about) the rules for a particular instance. If a Liberal and a Leftist wander into the same community, it can be hard to tell them apart unless they've made politics their whole identity.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Maybe I’m in a bubble, but I have yet to see anyone who’s not genuinely a tankie being accused of such.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ive seen people be called tankies for not supporting Kamala and opposing Liberal Democracy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

for not supporting Kamala

That’s wild. I’ve never heard that take and have a difficult time believing that it is common.

opposing Liberal Democracy

What alternative were they in favor of?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

That’s wild. I’ve never heard that take and have a difficult time believing that it is common.

World users were literally calling anyone who critiqued Kamala Russian bots, were you not paying attention for the last several months?

What alternative were they in favor of?

Depends, some leftists support a workers democracy, im personally an Anarcho Syndicalist

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (24 children)

I've seen conservatives lob the word tankie around before like they do with other scary sounding political words. But not here on lemmy. "Tankie" has a very precise meaning on lemmy that everyone here seems to understand, despite a few tankies trying to gaslight people into thinking the term has "lost it's meaning".

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