How can my instance be fascist or even anti-communist when most people here are leftist anarchists? We're anti-tankie, not anti-communist. Also it's blåhaj, not blahaj.
Ive been called a Tankie multiple times for merely advocating for class conciousness and calling out Capitalist Hypocrisy, I also left Lemmygrad when then deleted a comment i made arguing that voting for the lesser of 2 evils is the best course of action to protect the Prolitariat in the rising wave of transphobia and bigoty in the West. The same way blahaj zone deleted my comment with hundreds of up votes under the "kick Tankies out of 196" post calling them out for being explicitly anti Tankie, while they dont even define what they mean by tankie, which can be used to define any person with communistesc ideologies. Fascism rose to power in Europe 90 years ago on the back of anticommunist rhetoric, and easily took power because Communists were the loudest voices of opposition. Not calling Blahja zone explicitly fascist, merely pointing out how anticommunist rhetoric is a rallying cry for Fascists, BECAUSE IT IS.
I really think it is quite unfortunate how much grad/hex tainted communism. I'm not a communist, but I was open to good discussions about it, particularly because I know it's important to look at the flaws in your own systems.
Now? I'm scarred. I can't just assume a post js something posted by someone I could probably agree with after a discussion.
I assume something similar has happened to other users. It's unfortunately hard to grant someone the grace of assume they aren't a tankie when you know they're out there. I feel your pain and I'm sorry. I also don't know how any of us can change now.
I really don't fucking get those people. Yeah, Stalin was awful, but communism isn't. It seems like they don't really know what they're angry at. China? 🤷♀️
We're in the middle of a new Red Scare, because whenever capitalism starts falling apart at the seams the only option to maintain power by capitalists is to instill fear about anything other than funneling more wealth upward to the 1%
I think you are conflating tankie with communist. They are not the same.
That's how fascist view the statement "fuck tankies" ergo it being a rallying cry for Fascists. . .
While that is true, I fail to see why you think Blahaj is fascist. Saying "fuck tankies" isn't exclusive to fascists.
Yes, clearly the only people that don't like commies are fascists, like all of those people who lived under nominally "communist" regimes. Weird how they developed fascism from the experience.
Where did I say all people that dont like Commies are Fascists? I merely stated that anticommunism is a rallying cry for fascist lmao.
I can be anti-both. ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ
Looks like lemmy.ml has very much lost the ml roots
Mfs prob think it means machine learning, doesn't change the fact that Fascists rose to power in Europe 90 years ago on the back of anti-communist rhetoric. History doesnt always repeat, but it sure as shit rhymes.
Just a reminder
It is possible to block users when they forget that memes should be fun.
