John

I tend to agree. I simply don’t like the short form content. I never did. When twitter launched, I didn’t understand it, and I still don’t. It doesn’t facilitate conversation whatsoever. It’s just shitposting and one-liners and toxicity. We really lost something special when we moved from forums to shorter and shorter content platforms.

“Better” means extracting as much data and value from users as possible to appease the Capitalist machine. What users want or need is irrelevant.

bsky is just another VC-funded corpo platform. The initial wave of Libs who moved over gave it some gas, but ultimately, it’s just another toxic, bland platform like all the others.

Careful, you’ll trigger the Lemmy libs

Went to both my and my partner’s 10 year. Both sucked. Would never do it again.

Everybody should read One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. We are almost at that point. Back in 2023-2024, multiple millions of liberals and democrats were willing to genocide Gaza. After all, “If Kamala won, we’d all be at brunch, right?”

Everbody now is pretending to be against Israel and the genocide. The Dem platform in 2023-2024 was specifically/explicitly to continue the genocide.

Communists

It was VC funded and built by the same guy who built Twitter, what you expect?

I’d say it’s by design. It’s not meant to facilitate discussion. It’s meant for short zingers to be shared.

Not banned, I just like Communism, FOSS, and decentralization.

This is literally what Grant Park at the north end in Chicago looked like until they built millennium Park

You can use Brave search without using Brave. It’s also, to my knowledge, the only major search engine that doesn’t use google or microsoft.

I don’t pay for plex so I don’t really care, at this point in time.

Wait, ya’ll are paying for Plex??

Should have just been the Roku City haha

Look, you’re doing it!

Addressing your points from a perspective of an ML?

That’s the whatabout campism it is refering to!

Interesting. You never mentioned “whataboutism” in your “tankie” description, and you were allowed to insert whatever convenient definition you saw fit. I can see the goalposts are moving now that I’ve addressed your original points directly. Convenient that we’re never allowed to explain our position, lest the term “tankie” be thrown at us and summarily hand wave away anything we say.

Just introducing what a tankie means to regular people

Again, since I’m usually the one the term is being used against, I think I know what most “regular” people think the term means: which is usually just broadly anti-ML and anti-any-established-socialist-state because they’re [ignorantly and incorrectly] viewed as “Authoritarian”.

I think we’ve exhausted this debate here.

people who are extremely anti US

The US has committed way more atrocities than either of those countries you listed. We literally just kidnapped a democratically elected leader without any due process a few months ago and everybody just plum forgot about it. We’ve started countless wars. We still have Guantanamo Bay operating. We orchestrated the genocide of millions via the Jakarta Method. We sanction and embargo countries with the EXPLICIT purpose (as admitted by the CIA) of inflicting as much human misery on the populace as possible. Our history with genocide of Natives, slavery, jim crowe, prison slavery … I’m sorry but the USA fucking sucks. I say that as a citizen who thinks we deserve better. The world deserves better. If that makes me a “tankie” … so be it. I will continue to fight for what’s right.

to the point that they choose to ignore or excuse all the crimes against humanity caused by other Imperialistic nations. Ex. Russia, China

Russia … ehh, I always argue that most Communists, because we are anti-imperialist, can see the reasons for Russia doing what Russia is doing, which is broadly reacting to NATO expansion. What I mean is, we can acknowledge how problematic Western Imperialism and NATO expansion close to Russia (or anywhere, really…) is. Nobody is really pro-Putin, very few. He’s a capitalist. We don’t like Capitalists.

It’s like the Cuban Missile Crisis. It’s always framed as “big, bad, and evil USSR puts nukes in Cuba because they’re big, bad, and evil!”. Nevermind that the US put nukes in Italy and Turkiye first, and rejected any peace talks with USSR. We can see the nuance and understand why Russia is doing Russia things.

As far as China … so many sinophobic arguments are easily debunked.

term has another meaning. You shouldn’t ignore it

I’ve been called a “tankie” far more than I’d like, I’m well aware of the meaning levied at me by ignorant people.

Not sure if you’re referring to me, but I’m a card-carrying Communist and I’d hardly consider getting fed Western propaganda from a Lemmy Lib as “getting owned”. I’ve already blocked him and moved on with my life…

I ain’t reading all that. Free Palestine.

especially those who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof.

Who defines “acts of repression”? Capitalists? Western Imperialists who commit acts of repression daily? It’s not a good faith argument. Many of the “acts of repression” usually listed [by western media, western/capitalist countries] can almost always be debunked or explained with nuance. For example the comment by the other user that “Xi is literal dictator” … I can’t even take this comment seriously.

It’s only ‘ignorant and combative’ in the same way that people call right-wing authoritarianism fascism

It’s ignorant and combative because it hand waves away all successful socialist states (China, Cuba, etc) without any nuance.

Not to mention socialism isn’t apart of the meaning at all as you’ve described it.

Socialism and Communism are one in the in the same according to Marx. As we use the terms today, from actual Socialists, is that Socialism is a beginning, transitory state before full Communism. This is the general agreed upon consensus at a high level. Among non-Socialists or Liberals, Socialism is usually interpreted as a “safer, more desirable, version of Communism”, whatever that means. As such, using the the term “tankie” insults Socialists and Communists alike, as we’re all working towards the same goal.

I also find it funny that your source for the meaning of tankie is from lemmy.ml

Where was I supposed to find a succinct rebuttal to this other than the people against whom the term is used? Wikipedia? Fox News? Where? Talk about bias…

It would be like if I corrected someone on the meaning of the term “Jew” by sourcing Mein Kampf.

False equivalence and you know it.