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mitoticcephalopod
theshitpostingwillnotbetelevised

leftbook tankies are worse than Tumblr tankies ever have been

mitigatedchaos

Does anyone else remember all those “but if people use their real names, they’ll be kind and not trolls” idiots?

Yeah.  It is as I and many of you predicted.

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bambamramfan
blackblocberniebros

Also let’s please not act like minisoc’s antisemitism is in any way unique. Other tankies on here like marxism-leninism-memeism have said worse things, like that Jewish people ought to be thanking Stalin for saving them from the Holocaust.

Let’s eradicate this preposterous notion that you can be a defender of Stalin and not simultaneously be a raging antisemite racist homophobe. There are no non-problematic tankies. If you defend Stalin, you defend ethnic cleansing, the arrest, enslavement, and murder of gay men, antisemitic purges, and a million other atrocities.

Tankies like to pretend that Stalinist mass murders and systems of forced labor camps were substantially different and in no way comparable to the Nazis because the Stalinists at least on the surface espoused the values of internationalism and anti-racism. But in practice the gulags and the purges were systems of racist terror. Hitler killed more people but Stalin sure gave him a run for his money.

ranma-official

I can’t wait for people to performatively denounce the ““““tankies”“““ for five seconds while doing literally zero self-reflection

theaudientvoid

Wasn’t that called McCarthyism?

honeylazors

Stan’s body count is miles higher than Hitler’s last I checked. Unless I’m having a moment of bad memory at 430AM

blackblocberniebros

If you compare intentional murders, Hitler’s is higher. Famine deaths were definitely caused by Stalin’s policies, and the word genocidal certainly qualifies in the case of the Ukrainian famine, but I think it’s not quite the same to say that famine deaths should count equally as people being rounded up and arrested, and then shot or gassed to death or killed from overwork and brutal conditions in a prison camp.

Still though, counting only intentional murders, Stalin’s death toll easily makes it into the 7 figures.

ranma-official

the key difference here imo is that both angles are incorrect: Nazism inherently leads to mass murder as per Generalplan Ost, since the whole plan is to lebensraum new territories and get rid of or enslave the population there, however, communist governments ended up with such an enormous death toll because the countries where communism was enacted were so big. so this implies three things: authoritarianism equals mass murder even if you are the “””good guys”””,  communism doesn’t scale well at all, and “hey you thought my ideology murders the most people in history, whereas it only murdered the second most people in history” does not sound enticing

shieldfoss

I feel like

If you take somebody’s food

That they say they need

And then they starve to death

That’s murder, even if you didn’t believe them when they said they needed the food.

bambamramfan

Yes but if you do that you have to start accounting for capitalism’s death toll too. But no one wants to say it’s the government’s fault that a bunch of people without money starved when the crops failed, that was just like, completely external or something.

mitigatedchaos

It’s one thing to have people suffer in a famine, it’s another thing to cause one that otherwise wouldn’t happen.

Anyhow, suppose there is some baseline level of famine that occurs in any country as a result of environmental conditions, and some minimum number of people who will die from it. Ideologies/economies are judged by how far above that number they come in. Does Capitalism do better on that metric? Does it do better than Feudalism?

But if we’re going for this level of detail, then slow economic growth counts against Communism, too. How many have died because of less wealth for healthcare, or for safety procedures? How many have died due to a slower pace of technological development? How many have died because Communist governments were so bad that they created massive amounts of corruption that persist to this day?

I guess I’m just annoyed with that comic with a Communist sitting on a tiny hill of skulls while a banker stands next to a small mountain of them. Even after you account for, for instance, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, which can be attributed to Capitalism, Communism is still going to end up responsible for more net deaths, and yet so many people smart enough to know better want to try it again.

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argumate

Anonymous asked:

are maoists bad people or good people that are wrong ?

afloweroutofstone answered:

Bad people.

blackblocberniebros

Cmon Brett. I hate tankies as much as the next guy but some Maoists are just misguided but with their hearts in the general vicinity of the right place.

argumate

yes I think it is stupid to accuse people of being inherently good or bad based on some kind of nominal political association; one might as well replace “Maoists” with “Liverpool supporters” or what have you.

mitigatedchaos

“How much Maoism did you drink?”

“*hic* Sparrows are a tool of the oppressive Capitalist class.”

“You need to stop drinking that stuff, man. You get evil when you’re drunk.”

“Shutup… Liverpooool. You jusht can’t handle… a little Communishm.”

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diarrheaworldstarhiphop
diarrheaworldstarhiphop: “ shit-tankies-say: “reblog to give a white socialist a heart attack ” >communist nation of Onkwehon:we, an Iroquois language term denoting original people, from an area confined to the eastern great lakes region, yet applied...
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diarrheaworldstarhiphop

>communist nation of Onkwehon:we, an Iroquois language term denoting original people, from an area confined to the eastern great lakes region, yet applied across canada as a “confederacy” on the lines drawn by european empires (i suppose because lmao the #woke iroquois confederacy #resisted the settlers) regardless of individual nations, boundaries and language groups that defy these fake ass borders

>surely to be run and exploited by a centralized government that would inevitably exploit and crush the dessenting nations opposed to this imposition on their culture, a title denoted to represent them from a native confederacy thousands of miles away

>also that huge fucking metis nation that isn’t historically consistent to louis riel’s original metis nation of manitoba

>because the white producers of this image are about as ignorant as the white socialists they intend to give a heart attack to

Yup, seems about right for communists to lump together various different groups in their fantasy exercise in 19 year old oppression

here’s what your map SHOULD look like if you gave a damn about emancipation and rights of north america’s first nations:

mitigatedchaos

I’m a big fan of irony.

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ranma-official
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mitigatedchaos

The less smug you are, (and the less unethical you are), the less it stings when your most unethical behavior comes to light.

It’s good standard practice to avoid using “wit” (and snark) on people because they are low-status (”gross,” “smelly,” “ugly,” “fat harpy” and so on).  First of all, it’s just not a good mental hygiene habit.  Second of all, it cannot then come back to haunt you.

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