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    89 months ago

    anarchist being favorable to the CIAs regime changes is very telling.

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      no real-world anarchist will do that. Unfortunately there is a bunch of online liberal larpers who just like the aesthetic

    • @[email protected]
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      159 months ago

      Very telling of reddit bullshit. Anarchists I know in the real world are hiding aliens and are fully anticolonial.

  • Brave Little Hitachi Wand
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    169 months ago

    Counterpoint, this isn’t even an opinion. This is like magnetic poetry tiles after a dog tried to climb the fridge

    • @[email protected]
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      129 months ago

      If I see anything less than five politically correct flag-emojis in your profile name, I’m not going to take you seriously.

    • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost
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      249 months ago

      I’m an anarchist but I support [THE BIGGEST NATION-STATE AND ITS ACTIONS 100% WITHOUT A SECOND THOUGHT]

      It’s like a parody of how hexbear thinks we are.

  • Dippy
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    159 months ago

    As an actual anarcho communist, I know that the only difference between the CIA and your local neighborhood tankie is that the tankie has no access to power, large sums of money, or the ability to achieve violence.

  • @[email protected]
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    49 months ago

    That’s about as strong an “argument” as saying that the NAZIs were socialists because their party name included the word Socialist.

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    It’s kind of interesting how under an anti-CIA post, some of the first associations ppl make is “man the USA is bad but have you heard of them tankies? I hate those ppl”

    Like no one even said anything about revisionists or wannabe MLs lol.
    The word tankie doesn’t even mean anything anymore

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      How about “selfish accelerationist asshole larping communism to advocate for imperialisms that aren’t the West’s”?

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        That’s one of the few good definitions tbh

        However, most of the time liberals or so called social democrats/democratic socialists just say ‘tankie’ to everyone to the left of them

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          59 months ago

          To be honest, I only see this in posts like oop, where it’s clear that it’s astroturfed. Maybe it’s the circles that I am in, but every time I see the word used in a wild, it’s always used more or less correctly

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            rly? From my perception it’s a rare case that it’s used coherently.
            And as I said more often than not, just as a “someone to the left of me” or “someone I don’t like”- type slur

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    This guy’s a CIA special operative planted to fool Reddit: Kanye-No.jpg

    This guy’s a high school student who just aced his US History AP exam: Kanye-Yes.jpg

    “America is the greatest, bestest, most amazing country in the whole world” is straight out of the course material. You don’t need to be a double-secret super spy to post it.

  • Miles O'Brien
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    349 months ago

    He’s right about one thing, the CIA (probably) isn’t “as bad as tankies say”

    It’s (probably) MUCH worse.

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      349 months ago

      That’s the thing with tankies. They’re wrong about communism, but right about capitalism.

  • Carl
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    @hamid Each time I read about a discovery of natural riches anywhere in the world I think to myself “O dear, I hope this poor country can keep the riches for itself and has not brought ‘democracy ™’ and ‘freedom ™’ by the US upon them!”