It’s not fun interacting with them when they often want to engage in ad hominems. This is why I have no interest in the tankie triad.
It’s not fun interacting with them when they often want to engage in ad hominems. This is why I have no interest in the tankie triad.
Uh… nobody at all has been pretending the Lemmy devs aren’t tankies. The whole point of this community is dunking on tankies, but let’s keep content at a level above “tankie bad haha”.
A large number of MLs assert that they’re only being called tankies because everyone else is a shitlib who can’t handle anyone left of Pelosi.
I mean yes, but even then what they’re saying isn’t that they’re not tankies, but that we’re just shitlibs who can’t handle Real Leftism™. Like, MLs don’t say “yeah tankies are insane, but I’m not that;” they say “there’s nothing such as a tankie you shitlib,” so while they do reject the label because it’s derogatory they don’t really contest the meat of it. If “tankie” didn’t have a negative connotation they’d be wearing it proudly.
How the hell can you say that denying tankies even exist isn’t denying being a tankie?
Because again, they object to the label simply because it sounds bad; they’ll never actually contest tankie beliefs. They’ll be like “yes I’m what you call a tankie, but that’s because you’re a shitlib”. Contrast to modern fascists, which do try to distinguish themselves from literal Nazis despite no substantial difference existing.