I always thought tankies are mostly stalinists and nostalgic brezhnevists, a violent and fanatic type of marxist-leninist who will crush anyone and anything to establish their utopia. They don’t argue much, it’s just aesthetics, violence and rhetoric, they are essentially red fascists. Most communists I know (which includes leninists, but not only) are mostly pacifist…but they will quickly turn authoritarian to tamp down any fascists and rich people who get a little too uppity, so yea, naturally, rule of law and property rights are secondary to them.

I don’t know yet, I’ve seen democratic communists, like Lula, who are a bit daft sometimes (e.g. meeting putin wearing his little St. George ribbon, somebody slap him 😠💢 , hard), but who truly believe in welfare, nonviolence, human rights and democracy. I even understand that he is unnerved and aggrieved by bozo’s foreign-backed efforts to destroy Brazil, but he’s also making strange bedfellows.

But I’ve never seen a democratic/“cuddly” fascist that doesn’t eventually take their mask off and the whip out…maybe Meloni so far (I don’t understand italian politics enough to get what damage she’s done) or maybe peronismo…

I agree with your point that “the ideas furthest from you politically all look alike” (aka political myopia), that’s why fascists think everyone left of an ultraneoliberal is a “dirty commie” and why tankies think everyone right of liberal socialists are nazis (no, I’m not one of those who say elon is not a nazi, he is, but for his own actions, lol). It’s just terrifying when you see a friend of yours imbibe that bullshit and suddenly call everyone they don’t like (including FDR) a commie…are they fascist now? :/

Whatever you wouldn’t let the catholic church impose, you shouldn’t let any other religion impose either.

putin sympathizes with elon nazi musk. I wonder what they think about him.

No degree can teach even a smart person to think of the consequences of their plans for other people if they don’t want to.

Nah, they’ll get medals for teaching friendly diplomats not to nose about.

And yet he created this platform for us to use…I don’t agree with a lot of his politics, but I respect what he is doing (until the day someone provably reports some sneaky backdoor, doxxing IPs, serving private data to hostile states, undermining dissenting instances or other things like that)

I prefer guilt over shame, but these days I’d take any of them over nothing.

Refreshing to see shame still mean something, eh?

My “friend” who hangs out at conspiracy does…I’m just a peasant whose doubt prevents them from unlocking the mind :/

“Oh shit, if you rape your neighbours, they can fight back? Gotta get working on close air defense ASAP!”

Every new generation has to learn themselves hard way about proprietary software, fascism and market failures, it seems.

Primaries should do it, then you just have to make sure the superdelegates don’t ruin the result…

Yeah, my factory windows install died and refused to boot up, because I spent too long without creating an account or some ransom shit like that…I was sad for a second…then I booted back to Debian as I do every day :))

If every other country agrees and the UK is able to pass a rejoin referendum with 2/3 majority and will only leave with another 2/3 majority, we can probably play ball, instead of this “will they or won’t they make Farage prime minister”

The fact that tramp even ever had a chance to win with more than 30% of the vote is reason enough for the whole country to be in deep shit and need to figure out what went wrong.

Yeah, they were born to run :D

And that’s how Springsteen 2028 got started…

I’ll join. In this age of crazy, political parties are lacking, you need an actual religion and a sect of crazies to put ideas in practice.