Ugh this type of bullshit infighting within leftist spaces is about as serious as debating your tabletop RPG actions, and sends regular people packing. None of this shit matters. Real people don’t care about it and they have no idea what a tankie is. Feds love this bullshit. We’re losing, we lost, the world is becoming a fascist hellscape but apparently somebody has time to make memes about fighting each other. It’s amazing how that always seems to happen, especially now when you’d think most people could feel unified?
And it got the reply “Calling tankies leftists is a stretch”
you have literally 0 reading comprehension. No one in the real world knows wtf you’re talking about. “Calling tankies leftists is a stretch” calling people whose entire political identity boils down to which factions they play in Paradox games leftists is a stretch. And yes, that probably applies to a lot of “tankies” or whatever who wanna LARP as NKVD guards, but it definitely extra extra applies to the people trying to reenact the Spanish civil war or whatever. Log tf out. Get real.
And I swear, if it wasn’t for the very awesome people on Hexbear especially in the trans mega who have these kinds of cute cartoon avatars, blahaj, all the anime stuff etc I would have like a 100% hitrate for assuming that that subculture (apologies if this reads as pointing at trans communities, in my estimation there’s definitely way more cis chasers in these communities than trans people) is just full of people who never log out and perceive all political struggle as a process in which two online communities beef with each other over which pieces of content are problematic, which aesthetic cultural references are acceptable to make, and what memespeak is based or cringe. There is simply no connection to the real world. Never any mention of organizing, solidarity, hell they never even talk about mutual aid which I KNOW that actual anarchist comrades do all the time. I almost feel like the only reason these types love to claim the anarchist label is that they know anarchist communities are less centralized so it’s harder to catch on to the fat load of nothing they’re doing. Yeah, I go to a horizontal organization, but she goes to another school and you can’t see her.
Deeply unserious people. I like this comment:
And it got the reply “Calling tankies leftists is a stretch”
angry rant
And I swear, if it wasn’t for the very awesome people on Hexbear especially in the trans mega who have these kinds of cute cartoon avatars, blahaj, all the anime stuff etc I would have like a 100% hitrate for assuming that that subculture (apologies if this reads as pointing at trans communities, in my estimation there’s definitely way more cis chasers in these communities than trans people) is just full of people who never log out and perceive all political struggle as a process in which two online communities beef with each other over which pieces of content are problematic, which aesthetic cultural references are acceptable to make, and what memespeak is based or cringe. There is simply no connection to the real world. Never any mention of organizing, solidarity, hell they never even talk about mutual aid which I KNOW that actual anarchist comrades do all the time. I almost feel like the only reason these types love to claim the anarchist label is that they know anarchist communities are less centralized so it’s harder to catch on to the fat load of nothing they’re doing. Yeah, I go to a horizontal organization, but she goes to another school and you can’t see her.