tbf that’s more to do with their near-total rejection of original Marxist theory in general. All the underlying assumptions that Marx has about the development of societies is rejected in favor of ‘Leninism’.

“Death to revisionists!” the literal revisionists cry

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Why would he be relevant here, though.

Who’s the right wing podcaster? If you think it’s Benny Boy, that’s not his website.

Who the fuck is “Benny Boy”?

Andrew Schulz is a conservative.

Damn, boats have crazy job security

People have forgotten what it means to have style 😔

Russian Empire, done by an ethnic Ukrainian artist, but yes, War Of The Mushrooms, 1909!

I don’t know, it seems like a lot for what the topic at hand

How much would ‘not a lot’ of time and effort be for people who check all the following boxes

• Support genocide

• Support authoritarianism

• Are a large percentage of users on this site/collection of instances

I spend maybe a minute making a post, and you assert that’s far too much to critique people who support genocide.

I’ve probably spent more minutes arguing with you in this comment section, than ALL the minutes I’ve spent posting anti-tankie memes combined since I started in this comm.

Although, to be fair, that’s also probably true of most of my online arguments.

I live inside a giant cancerous military complex which has focused its attention on the Palestinian Genocide not including that context here is wildly disengenous and I honestly am at a loss of how to respond.

Your excuse was, and I quote:

I have no control over China,

You established that the basis for you being positive about being vocal about Palestinian genocide, but overwhelmingly negative about being vocal about Uyghur genocide, was that one you, personally, could influence by your existence in a polity (the USA), and one you could not (China).

When confronted with the fact that you have, as an individual, probably more culpability with regards to funding the Uyghur genocide than the Palestinian genocide, you spit out some vague excuse about how addressing your argument on your argument’s own terms is ‘wildly disengenous[sic]’?

And again, you refuse to answer:

So you wouldn’t criticize someone who supported or was indifferent to Palestinian genocide, but wasn’t from the US?

It’s a simple question.

Because I am honestly mystified why especially in this moment in world history you pour so much energy and time into this.

… fucking what.

How much time and effort do you think posting a tankie meme a day (or two if a tankie or one of their defenders says something fuckwadded and stupid to me, like ‘I don’t see why you’re so worked up about Uyghur genocide!’) takes?

Do you think that posting on the Threadiverse is changing world history?

At best, and it would not be a claim that I would make for a meme comm, it would be changing the Threadiverse, which is, itself, an insanely small proportion of people, even politically involved people, in the Anglosphere. Even if you assumed 100% of us were Americans, it would still be an insanely small percentage of whatever narrow slice of politically important demographics you wanted to place us on.

You are going to casually equate the culpability of giving a client state unlimited bombs and diplomatic cover with buying a single product from a country as a consumer in another powerful peer trading partner… with a straight face?

I’m going to casually equate funding genocide with funding genocide, yes. Especially since it’s far more likely that you’ve bought something made with Uyghur slave labor than it is that you’ve voted for more funding for Israeli genocidaires.

We are not discussing “Is the US more culpable, as a polity, for one than the other”. The US is obviously more culpable in the ongoing genocide of Palestinians. We are discussing you, and what you object to, and, apparently, what genocides you think it is inappropriate even for others to object to.

Clearly I expect more from the citizens that reside in countries maintaining and materially supporting genocide.

So you wouldn’t criticize someone who supported or was indifferent to Palestinian genocide, but wasn’t from the US?

It’s a simple question.

I have, and yeah there are ugly parts…

Yeah, that’s a real softball way to say “genocide denial” and “genocide cheerleading”.

but the point that y’all push it to insulting them just comes off as weird and insecure

… I’m sorry, is authoritarianism not worthy of insults?

Of all the varieties of authoritarians, tankies are the ones that are most common on this website. I’m really not getting why you’re coming to a comm specifically for venting about tankie bullshit and throwing a fit that there is [checks notes] venting about tankie bullshit.

like this community is terrified people will overwhelmingly like Tankies more than people with your ideology which says everything about y’all and very little about Tankies which is precisely my point.

what

If I was complaining about a group this much and had built my identity around it, I would worry people would start to think I was full of shit and trying to get everyone worried about something as a distraction from much more awful, pressing forces.

“had built my identity around it”

what

… we’re on fucking Lemmy, of all places. There are tankies here, on this collection of sites.

Are you really saying you’ve never taken a dip in to Lemmygrad or Hexbear, or even just .ml?

I have no control over China,

I mean, considering the slave labor from Uyghur concentration camps is an ongoing issue with regards to American consumers funding genocide, not sure that’s as true as you want it to be.

I am from the US, so it is very VERY different because almost every single bomb dropped in Gaza was gleefully given by my country to Israel.

So you wouldn’t criticize someone who supported or was indifferent to Palestinian genocide, but wasn’t from the US?

It supports the beam to allow more or less pressure to be applied to the press, I think.

… I think. I’m not, uh, very mechanically inclined.

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