• HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Tankies aren’t leftists in reality.

    Maybe left of Nazis, but they aren’t leftists.

    The political left and authoritarianism are inherently contradictory.

    Its the political right that embraces authoritarianism. Hence why we call them “Red Fascists”

  • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.worldBanned from community
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    17 days ago

    Does left and right just mean prosocial Vs antisocial? What do these directions used as political labels even mean? Are they useful labels?

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      It comes from the French revolution, when the people who wanted a better king sat on the right side of the debate room, and people who wanted to get rid of the king sat on the left. From my understanding, right wing is about incremental improvement on what currently exists (optimistically, current right wing isn’t even about this), while left wing is about questioning what exists and redesigning it from the ground up.

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    16 days ago

    I’m not a fan of communism, but I DO very much like tanks.

    A libertankian, perhaps

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    17 days ago

    “Tankie” is a meaningless pejorative used by feds and morons to smear actual socialists, as is “authoritarian”. Refusal to wield authority in defense of socialism only guarantees capitalism will destroy it anywhere it is attempted.

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    17 days ago

    Yes, I have a left hand and a right hand. I even have a left leg and a right leg. I even have both feet.

    None of my appendages are politically oriented either way…

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    17 days ago

    What if my political spectrum isn’t on the spectrum at all.

    Right wing wants to ban all abortion. Left wing wants all requested abortion to be legal.

    Whereas I want mandatory abortion on all pregnancies. I’m not pro-life. I’m not pro-choice. I’m pro-death. Everybody dies!

    I also fully support nuking cities, but only as a means of killing all humans. It’s not a political or religious statement.

    Actually, can we invent nukes that kill all the humans, but don’t affect the animals? I’m ok with life on earth, just as long as that life isn’t human. Cats are cool. They just look at humans, and judge them, and enslave them. If only they had opposable thumbs, they could take over the world.

    As it stands the dominant species on this planet is so dumb it hates other members of it’s own species, just for being a darker shade skin. Or for believing in a different theoretical invisable man in the sky.

    And why’s God/Allah/whomever always depicted as male? Why would an omnipresent spirit have genitals at all? Yeah, choke on that. If God did exist, it’s trans by default. And for all you know God and Allah are the same, in the same way that manzanas and apples are the same thing. Jose is eating a manzana, and Bob is eating an apple. Corporate wants you to find the difference in these pictures.

    And can we get a government policy that takes a firm stance on vampires? Not ONE government has a prewritten policy on the matter! You can’t convince me Batman isn’t a vampire!

    So, lets start a tax system where all of the residents force feed the president bird seed until he throws up, and then use eugenics to create cats capable of mind control. That’s my political stance, and no candidates represent me! These are the flaws in a two party system. There’s a very significant chance that neither party has your best interest at heart.

    Can’t get enough of that sugar crisp…keeps me going strong (to kill all the humans)