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How it feels to scroll Lemmy as an Eastern European
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You see. That is what I don't like. The word generally. A tankie is boogie man and a slur.
Okay TurboTankie.
Okay Neolib
Anarchist. How's the authleft boot taste?
Pretty good actually. Once you go outside and actually try to organize you will quickly realize that most of those so called tankies are human beings that you can talk with and that leftist movements are way too small for it to be a good idea to split up in groups that fight each other instead of the common enemy.
There are some people and organizations on the left that I dislike but that is mostly because their structure facilitates concealment of abuse in their own ranks. I don't have anything against them from a broader political perspective.
The common enemy includes places like China or Russia that lock up LGBT people and make their lives miserable. I don't ally myself with people who defend those countries, why do you?
Again, I have met almost no actual leftists that support Russia. Those are a strawman and maybe a tiny fringe group on the net. One thing I've seen is that most leftists show their solidarity to the population of those countries which may get misconstrued by bad actors as solidarity to the countries themselves. Why do you ally yourself to people who call russians subhumans?
Have you never interacted with the triad? They routinely express support for Russia and China because “they fight against nato/us imperialism”.
And I don’t, I ally myself with anarchists. You can talk all the shit you want about people calling Russians subhuman, I won’t defend them or lose any sleep over it.
What the fuck is a triad supposed to be, assuming you didn't mean the chinese gangs?
Lol okay alt account.
Been on here 3 years defending the triad and tankies, yet never heard 'triad'. Can you be any more fake.