“i ain’t reading all that tankie shit”

"The joke is on you, as you see, I am illiterate".

Just do not bother getting angry over this type of stuff. Post it nonetheless because someone may stumble upon it and actually read it or engage in a meaningful (even if not always well-intended) conversation about it, but the snarky replies are best ignored as they add nothing of value.

By the way, it seems that moderators in 196 are deleting those comments from lemmygrad posters in a way that appear as visible while seen from lemmygrad while they appear as deleted by mods from any other instances (or so I suppose, I do not know very well how does Lemmy work). This is happening even if there is no breaking of rules in sight.

I see it got deleted. Ho Chi Minh should have known better and organize Vietnam's liberation from colonialism through confederated and horizontally-organized municipal communes, I suppose.

Hilarious how she doesn't even have a problem admitting it's all a matter of fitting the edgy cyberpunk aesthetic of blue hair, computers, skateboards and slapping stickers around. All about individual image and no political dedication.

And I can understand listening to theory audiobooks instead of reading them, although I think it's worse as it's harder for you to re-read lines and take notes, but... While skateboarding? Can you imagine yourself attempting to make any sense of a Das Kapital audiobook while playing basketball? Probably just to be able to say "yeah i've already read it" and nothing else. Once again, all about aesthetics.

Educate yourself. / [...] / Read a book.

Their education:

Like moths flying into a bug zapper: we know it will hurt, but we just cannot help it.

No need to resort to suppositions; just look at Thälmann.

The term of "red fascist" is not only (purposefully) insulting to the memory of actual MLs who came under repression and execution from the hands of fascists (and ignoring that in many fascist states they were the forefront of resistance against it, see: the PCE under francoist Spain), but also dangerous as it blurs fascism as a word with a meaning, making actual fascism harder to identify and, thus, to combat.

And I had the misfortune of not resisting to participate in it. Do not recommend.

We’d have more than two if it hadn’t been for tankies stabbing us in the back.

This is a phrase that keeps popping up in anarchist spaces but once you look at what it makes reference to it's... Simply not true? It's mostly used to refer to the Spanish Civil War, but one only needs to pick up a high school history book to learn that the May Days were a result of the anarchists attempting to antagonize the entirety of the Republican side by hindering war efforts, and not only the PCE or other Soviet-alligned communists, who held a rather small amount of power inside the Republican government.

But go, go on, tell me how Makhno was a counter-revolutionary or something. Kulak? Or was it about not being able to tolerate a non-authoritarian alternative.

If to not be authoritarian is a priority for you, reading Voline's accounts of his participation in the makhnovist movement should be enough to realize that his project is probably not the one you want to rally behind the most.

"Wokeness" is simply the term to be used by reactionaries against anything that attempts to promote a deconstruction of a social hierarchy regarding gender, race or sexuality. It's just a rebranding of a very old thought, this time attempting to frame commercial failures as the result of popular will backing conservative ideas.

Three and a half million families are evicted from their homes every year in the US, six hundred thousand people lay homeless in the same country while there are sixteen million empty housess, and the greatest concern for these people are that a mermaid or an elf in some TV show or movie is played by a black person.

There. See? I'm federating with lemmy via the wonders of the hyperlink protocol. And I didn't even need to share my data with tankies who want me dead.

Between this and the whole "CCP bots" discourse I am starting to get imposter syndrome for feeling like I don't have the ludicrous hacking powers that these people think MLs have.

"In lemmygrad they only post pictures of the supreme leader and you are forced to upvote them all and if you don't do it then the mods execute you and then they eat your body before the rats do it so they won't starve".