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arrow-up1848arrow-down1imageA month before an election!? BlooMAGA, amirite???locklemmy.worldGodric@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 5 days agomessage-square873linkfedilink
minus-squareGlide@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down10·5 days agoLiterally no one above you conflated anarchists and marxists with tankies. Imagine playing victim about something no one said. The very definition of “strawman.”
minus-squareDiva (she/her)@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down14·5 days ago‘tankies’ is such a broadly defined pejorative at this point and it absolutely does cover anarchists the way liberals use it.
minus-squarewonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down8·5 days ago“liberals” is such a broadly defined pejorative at this point and it absolutely does cover democratic socialists the way tankies use it.
minus-squareDiva (she/her)@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down5·5 days agoif they are pro capitalism, yes it does; i know many communists/marxists who are also in DSA that the label does not apply to.
minus-squarewonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down5·5 days agoIf the… democratic socialists… are… pro-capitalism…? Let’s examine that statement. Does it make any sense? Are you perhaps confusing democratic socialists with social democrats? Because those are different things, if you didn’t know…
minus-squareDiva (she/her)@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·4 days agobelieve it or not there are people in the reformist org who are not interested in seeing capitalism go; the org is not a monolith. have you even been to a DSA meeting? i feel like i have probably been to more DSA meetings than you.
minus-squareCowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down4·5 days agoReformism is a dead-end, so demsocs may want socialism but in practice are limited to welfare capitalism. The intent may not be to preserve capitalism, but the effect ultimately reinforces it.
minus-squareedible_funk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down5·4 days agoI appreciate your attempt to educate these ponderous oafs but they’re only interested in keeping republicans in power.
minus-squareGlide@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down7·5 days agoAre these Liberals in the room with us right now? You can make any argument you want when you imagine words to mean whatever you need them to mean.
minus-squareDiva (she/her)@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down6·5 days agoyeah, this whole fucking thread
minus-squareDoc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down6·5 days agoCan’t argue with reactionaries mate. They don’t engage in good faith.
minus-squareedible_funk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down6·4 days agoThat’s cute considering you and who you’re replying to.
minus-squareDiva (she/her)@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down5·5 days agofor real; sometimes it is good to get this energy out of my system though
Literally no one above you conflated anarchists and marxists with tankies.
Imagine playing victim about something no one said. The very definition of “strawman.”
‘tankies’ is such a broadly defined pejorative at this point and it absolutely does cover anarchists the way liberals use it.
“liberals” is such a broadly defined pejorative at this point and it absolutely does cover democratic socialists the way tankies use it.
if they are pro capitalism, yes it does; i know many communists/marxists who are also in DSA that the label does not apply to.
If the… democratic socialists… are… pro-capitalism…?
Let’s examine that statement. Does it make any sense?
Are you perhaps confusing democratic socialists with social democrats? Because those are different things, if you didn’t know…
believe it or not there are people in the reformist org who are not interested in seeing capitalism go; the org is not a monolith.
have you even been to a DSA meeting? i feel like i have probably been to more DSA meetings than you.
Reformism is a dead-end, so demsocs may want socialism but in practice are limited to welfare capitalism. The intent may not be to preserve capitalism, but the effect ultimately reinforces it.
I appreciate your attempt to educate these ponderous oafs but they’re only interested in keeping republicans in power.
Are these Liberals in the room with us right now?
You can make any argument you want when you imagine words to mean whatever you need them to mean.
yeah, this whole fucking thread
Can’t argue with reactionaries mate. They don’t engage in good faith.
That’s cute considering you and who you’re replying to.
for real; sometimes it is good to get this energy out of my system though