I used to think Tankies were misguided but harmless. Now I understand, if they got their way, they’d be dangerous.
I got into a fairly in depth conversation with one of them where they explained that they believed that the suspension of freedom, suppression of speech and expression, and sustained authoritarianism were necessary to achieve the socialist utopia. Except worse, they believe that these bad things should be in place until the entire world was socialist. If even one country wasn’t socialist, that would be the justification for suppression on the rest of the entire world. So essentially they’re defending worldwide authoritarianism and suppression of everyone in perpetuity.
I’d point you to this conversation so you could be your own judge, but true to their suppression methods, they exercised their own authoritarianism, deleted all my posts on the subject leaving only their own, because they said I was speaking against socialism and that can’t be allowed fulfilling the exact authoritarianism and suppression I was citing as a problem with their philosophy.
but you don’t understand, if only we murder and kill everyone until they are socialist then we’d finally never have to murder and kill again! unlike those evil capitalists who just go around murdering babies and grandmas, we are so much better than them! we only murder babies and grandmas who aren’t socialist!
If only you agreed with my particular political opinions, I wouldn’t have to call you a liberal. Which is basically a Nazi. Which means you are evil. Which just proves my point
They are not great at selling their position to the uninitiated. They demand you read their books and learn their definitions before you are permitted to exist. Asking questions gets you banned in many of their communities. I guess there’s a good reason their instances are often defederated from the bigger instances.
I used to think Tankies were misguided but harmless. Now I understand, if they got their way, they’d be dangerous.
I got into a fairly in depth conversation with one of them where they explained that they believed that the suspension of freedom, suppression of speech and expression, and sustained authoritarianism were necessary to achieve the socialist utopia. Except worse, they believe that these bad things should be in place until the entire world was socialist. If even one country wasn’t socialist, that would be the justification for suppression on the rest of the entire world. So essentially they’re defending worldwide authoritarianism and suppression of everyone in perpetuity.
I’d point you to this conversation so you could be your own judge, but true to their suppression methods, they exercised their own authoritarianism, deleted all my posts on the subject leaving only their own, because they said I was speaking against socialism and that can’t be allowed fulfilling the exact authoritarianism and suppression I was citing as a problem with their philosophy.
First tankie I met was a Czech gay man who supported Russia and wanted to go to Iran. My brain was so confused
but you don’t understand, if only we murder and kill everyone until they are socialist then we’d finally never have to murder and kill again! unlike those evil capitalists who just go around murdering babies and grandmas, we are so much better than them! we only murder babies and grandmas who aren’t socialist!
tankies don’t like socialists, they call them liberals. they would slaughter socialists, too.
If only you agreed with my particular political opinions, I wouldn’t have to call you a liberal. Which is basically a Nazi. Which means you are evil. Which just proves my point
They seem to call Republicans liberals as well.
They are not great at selling their position to the uninitiated. They demand you read their books and learn their definitions before you are permitted to exist. Asking questions gets you banned in many of their communities. I guess there’s a good reason their instances are often defederated from the bigger instances.