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wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 week agoI use the word tankie a lot because there are a lot of tankies on the internet. I suppose a tankie would think that’s overusing it though. Tankies overuse words like “capitalist shitlib,” “zionist,” “fascist,” “western imperialist,” and “genocide apologist.” Those things are all deserving of critique, but I’m none of those things. And if tankies don’t stop throwing them around like meaningless insults, then they’re gonna lose their meanings and get treated like meaningless insults.
I’ve already had people tell me to stop hyperbolizing while talking about actual fascists, because people are so worn down by tankies calling everyone and their mother a fascist just for being closer to the center than a bolshevik.
I never said “I’m socialist because I’m anti-maga.” I’m socialist, and I’m anti-maga.
pucker4676@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Socialists do not support any form of capitalism…
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
There’s a difference between supporting capitalism, and understanding that we currently live in a capitalistic world order and in order to make change we need to work within the systems and settle for incremental progress.
pucker4676@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
Democratic Socialism has no ethical end game. It’s a compromise with the ruling class remaining the ruling class. It’s a slightly lesser evil, but still evil. It’s just another liberal hangout.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
The end game is incremental progress by working within the systems that are in place to achieve gradual change.
It’s not about compromising with the ruling class. If any DemSoc is going about it that way, they’re doing it wrong.
Mamdani is doing great things for New York, none of which would be happening if because of some ideological purism he decided to stay home and be a keyboard warrior instead of getting into politics.