Get a load of this user, supposedly this comm is supposed to be making fun of reactionaries doing the “vuvuzuelaiphone” thing but suspiciously is posting nothing but anti tankie memes, curious 🤔
Edit: to be 100% accurate because I’m not a liberal, it appears that the comm name is misleading and it’s just a general meme sub for “leftists”, still quite funny that the only memes they’re posting are anti tankie memes
https://lemmy.ml/c/vuvuzelaiphone
Another totally serious and not laughable community. Why do reactionaries like this think they’re leftist?
Anti-“tankies” barely hide their racism anymore. Most anti-tankies are cowardly neoliberals (I repeat myself) that need bullets in their heads, if they can’t be reformed.
Their levels of racism, gaslighting, minimizing, projection, annoyance, false equivalency, and laziness drives my anger to a boil that makes the Planck-Temperature look like fucking ice cream-absolute zero with a douse of liquid nitrogen by comparison.
I genuinely do not believe it’s possible to re-educate a western liberal anymore tbh.
I’d have to disagree, with my own anecdotal evidence. Remember, there’s plenty of people who aren’t staunch anti-communists but have had too much capitalist propaganda in the US education system. Reeducation takes time.
I’m still working to try to figure out what the truth is and what I am, but I’m glad I found this community.
Here’s the issue with your sign: I don’t believe them ‘brainwashed’ or ‘especially naive’. I believe them willfully evil; and willfully ignorant. A horse might be led to water, but you’ll drown it before it drinks these days.
You didn’t read the article then. A point it makes is that the western masses aren’t just brainwashed, they willfully buy in. A USian sees an article demonizing China is made to feel good about his own status quo.
precisely but it’s really just the path of least resistance
it is if the stars align… i had considered myself a liberal for most of my life because i was one… i hated the system but i never looked beyond it and was blind to reality.
one day that changed… people i respected shit all over me for something i thought we were definitely all in the same page about. i got all upset and started digging for information to prove them wrong and discovered a whole other mindset out there that aligned far better with what i felt deep down then i was able to go back and read posts and tweets in a whole new light and everything made so much more sense. and i got even more pissed, but pissed for the right reasons this time. pissed that i had been so blind all my life and never bothered to try to think for myself. pissed that everyone i knew personally was just as blind and now hated when i tried to tell them to also look beyond the programming… because of course that’s a tired and played out trope that everyone has heard a hundred times.
i dunno, i think if someone sincerely believes that things are not right with the world they can open their mind given the right opportunity to crack through that seemingly impenetrable wall of self-satisfied ignorance and pride.
but you can’t force anyone to see it
I haven’t looked at the specific example you posted, this is just in general about anti-tankie leftists:
It makes sense to me that anti-authoritarian leftists would be against authoritarianism even if it’s left leaning, just like they’re also against libertarian right
Putting aside the fact that authoritarian and “tankie” are meaningless at this point, it’s still telling that these so called “leftists” always seem to spend 90+% of their time fighting “tankies” instead of reactionaries
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Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeah that settler’s not even worth the time to drag with ‘numbers’ like that
I mean they literally just made the comm, I only found it because I was looking directly on lemmy.ml and I saw “leftism” trending and clicked out of curiosity lol
Personally I’d want to deal with this kind of people only if they directly interfere with Marxist movement and I wouldn’t mind not interacting with them at all. This idealist ideology has very little revelance outside of it’s inner circles and I see no reason to care about it, at least for the sake of our mental health. I’m just glad they are not here and don’t have the opportunity to posion this community with their infantile hostility towards Marxists-Leninists.
this is more supposed to be a point and laugh post