Do you have any idea who this person is? He’s about as close to something resembling a real communist as my dog is to a hippo. This guy lives in Toronto and spends most of his time spewing propaganda specifically to drive wedges between western Democracies. He an authoritarian imperialist who would never be allowed the opinions he holds if he lived anywhere but a western democracy.
He posts so much it’s shocking he even gets a git commit in. He’s a high end software engineer living in one of the most privileged countries on the planet, in one of the most expensive cities in the world, in one of the highest paid professions within that city. Statistically speaking, he is the 1% of 1%, and yet he spends most of his time lamenting his privilege and promiting the activity of authoritarian regimes. And it’s effective. He regularly gets content to the front of Lemmy. But read the first comment of those posts. It’s always garbage. This strategy is the same strategy the neonazis and fascists used to get Donald Trump into power in 2016.
And that’s where the rub is. Tankies are indistinguishable from neofacsists ideologically, and to debate them in good faith is to elevate their, truly bad faith behavior, to a level it does not deserve. I take the future of our world far too seriously to offer a good faith position to people who never have had it in the first place.
Tankies are mostly juvenile young men engaged in the same kind of quasiintellectual solipsism that result in a broad and now material neofacsist movement in the US. They are taking advantage of the same gullible psychodemographics that the modern neofacsist movement did. One should not take them in good faith, the future is too important.
Do you have any idea who this person is? He’s about as close to something resembling a real communist as my dog is to a hippo. This guy lives in Toronto and spends most of his time spewing propaganda specifically to drive wedges between western Democracies. He an authoritarian imperialist who would never be allowed the opinions he holds if he lived anywhere but a western democracy.
He posts so much it’s shocking he even gets a git commit in. He’s a high end software engineer living in one of the most privileged countries on the planet, in one of the most expensive cities in the world, in one of the highest paid professions within that city. Statistically speaking, he is the 1% of 1%, and yet he spends most of his time lamenting his privilege and promiting the activity of authoritarian regimes. And it’s effective. He regularly gets content to the front of Lemmy. But read the first comment of those posts. It’s always garbage. This strategy is the same strategy the neonazis and fascists used to get Donald Trump into power in 2016.
And that’s where the rub is. Tankies are indistinguishable from neofacsists ideologically, and to debate them in good faith is to elevate their, truly bad faith behavior, to a level it does not deserve. I take the future of our world far too seriously to offer a good faith position to people who never have had it in the first place.
Tankies are mostly juvenile young men engaged in the same kind of quasiintellectual solipsism that result in a broad and now material neofacsist movement in the US. They are taking advantage of the same gullible psychodemographics that the modern neofacsist movement did. One should not take them in good faith, the future is too important.