I’m punching to the right, it’s not my fault the Dems are always standing there 🤷

This thread is an amazing honeypot for any instance admins looking for a well organized list of accounts to ban.

Punching down by portraying people you theoretically want on your side as villains is not a winning strategy for anyone left of centre. Dividing people only helps the right, no matter who is doing it. I don’t even think ordinary folks who’ve been conned into believing (Maple) MAGA-esque propaganda should automatically be bashed in every case-- just persons in positions of significant power. The priority should always be to seek opportunities to genuinely win folks over.

Tankies would unironically promote known Russian asset Elizabeth Warren in actual left communities and then turn around and unironically talk about electing Trump in Hexbear and Lemmygrad, because he’s friendlier with Xi Jinping.

I hate Tankies.

Republicans are always evil. They don’t do anything good. Ever. They’re a known quantity. That’s what we expect of them.

We expect the Dems to be better. And they get the smoke when they fail at that. Cutting Corp taxes. Border crackdowns. Genocide. Those are things that should exclusively be the pervue of Republicans. If dems run to the right they will always lose because the right was so triggered by Obama that policy doesn’t matter to them whatsoever. It’s purely teamsport for them. You can’t appeal to them in any way. They see a (D) and vote against that person. Dems would never lose another election if they went only as far left as Bernie Sanders. We would have a perpetually booming economy and a high standard of living. But even that is far too far for the DNC Services Corp. So we get a gameshow host and a car salesman destroying everything.

Yes it was the “slight corruption” that “tankies” are criticizing Dems for. Give me a break.

Current US: a neoliberal capitalist nightmare being ruined by CEOs

Your most intelligent American: This is definitely the socialists’ fault

Seems to be a lot of talk here about authoritarianism.

Is demanding responsible speech over free speech absolutism “tankie”? …because the US is demonstrating exactly what happens when you give free speech to fascists and don’t monitor their “religion”.

Republicans ran on a purely populist agenda, that resonated with many non voters. If Dems had an ounce of sense, instead of digging their heel on ‘vote losing’ points, they would have acknowledged the merit of those populist rhetoric to defang republicans.

They faced the same amount as usual, but media made sure to squelch any reporting on it and to amplify every voice on the right. It’s not the civilians that chose to turn every single thing Kamala did into an opportunity to shit on her while ignoring everything Trump was doing.

yeah the like 10 tankies in the US really threw that election…? The takes from people on lemmy are so fucking strange.

this is one of the biggest problems on the left, granted these people generally do bitch about trump and his admin.

The problem is that they bitch about everyone, short of lenin literally rising from the dead, nobody would ever sate their hunger for bloodlust, they only wish to see the world burn so they can be angry about it.

OFC this one is a bit more specific to the commie left, but this is also generally true amongst the left as well, we’re too busy bitching about stupid shit, to actually do anything productive most of the time.

tell me you don’t actually talk to leftists without telling me you don’t actually talk to leftists.

Seriously blaming the tankies again? How bourgeoisie of you lol

If you want to blame something, blame the media. Both news and social media have completely sold out for profit. You CANNOT have a democracy if vast parts of your population is being misinformed. And this started with talk radio in rural areas many decades ago. And the democrats did nothing - because they are not left. Thanks for all the empty “Hope and Change” Obama!

So yeah, blame socialists all you want but their critique was valid.

You need a revolution or reformation. A massive change in who owns the means of communication to have a free press again that is not purely profit driven. Can you even imagine that? Is that something you would say? No. You’d rather blame and denigrate socialists and call them tankies. Look at the mass protests, it seems the libs aren’t even calling for Trump to step down and demand new election lol. People would rather bow to unjust laws and simplistic principles than believe in democracy. Of course they are all being stage managed.

But this is just pathetic.

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