cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25133597

Come one come all to the Lemmy-verse! It’s nice and cozy here, we do have some “bad parts of town” but you can do an instance block and not deal with them lol

For your memes we have !memes@lemmy.world if you like sciency posts mander.xyz has some excellent communities (communities=subreddits) like !science@mander.xyz and !biology@mander.xyz and for a meme science combo theres always the fantastic !science_memes@mander.xyz

You can also drop a shit(post) off at !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world or hang out at !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone (though you do have to post before you leave that one!)

There’s much more around as well!

Obligatory, fuck Spez

  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
    7·
    5 hours ago

    “Tankie” is a pejorative that basically looks like an exact replica of McCarthy’s strawman of a Communist. The purpose of the term is to claim the accused that they genuinely hold those McCarthyian characteristics, regardless of reality. It shuts down conversation because it would be inconvenient to have those conversations, it’s a thought-terminating cliché more than a real thing.

    • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nzEnglish
      12·
      1 hour ago

      Here are some thoughts:

      Marx said communism is stateless

      The state won’t wither away if you keep defending its right to use force

      The vanguard party must either accept revolution against themselves so that society can become more communist, or become reactionary tyrants

      Modern Russia isn’t fucking socialist, you don’t need to defend it anymore

      State capitalism isn’t socialism. State socialism requires robust democracy

      Every actual successful communist nation that reached communism didn’t have a vanguard state

      Being an enemy of the West doesn’t mean a country inherently deserves your support. That’s how voting works, it’s not how international relations work

      Trump is planning to displace the Palestinians and make Gaza a US colony, and Lemmy’s Marxist-Leninist community tried to help him

      Having a small movement with little power isn’t an excuse for making bad decisions. Take responsibility for your actions

      Drag is not seeking to have an argument about each and every one of these points. Drag is seeking to prove that “tankie bad” is not a thought terminating cliche as you said. Drag has plenty of thoughts, and has already discussed them exhaustively on this platform. And this list of thoughts isn’t an invitation to sealion.

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
        1·
        15 minutes ago

        Of course drag isn’t inviting to sealion, drag is gish-galloping and isn’t interested in any conversation. drag has proven this, from defending Nazi-led pograms as “true revolution” to pretending Marx was an Anarchist and wanted full decentralized horizontalism, rather than full centralization and democratization as industry gets ever more complex.

        drag is therefore either uninterested in genuine conversation, or is a troll.