Comment on Who knew 1989 was an uneventful year in China

JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Lol, I’ve been wondering how to describe them…

  Like, I have a buddy who’s a communist, and we agree on everything. I come on Lemmy and say I don’t agree with the most extreme forms of socialism and communism, though, and I get straight up shit on and banned as if I said something incredibly offensive.

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  • PopOfAfrica@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The tankies from hexbear are not real communists. Just right wing trolls.

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    • JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh I’m well aware. Hexbear seems to be the biggest hive of bastards I’ve encountered on all of the federated instances. Every hexbear post I see is either super right wing or just insanely cringe My Little Pony type stuff.

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      • Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        its almost like hexbear is full of pedo right wing shit heads or something

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    • Godric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Lol no, they’re not right wing. They just share the trait of being moronically devoted to their preferred ideology.

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    • oatscoop@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh, they’re real – I’ve met several in person. It’s very rare they’re older than “young adult”.

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    • Sotuanduso@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I can’t keep track of this one-dimensional political spectrum people keep using. I thought tankies, socialists, communists, and liberals were all considered left wing, but I keep hearing things about some of these groups being on the right instead.

      When can we upgrade to the political tesseract?

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      • PopOfAfrica@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Hexbear is more or less a 4Chan equivalent, sharing the same memes and single image posting behavior. They exist to make left leaning people look bad.

        Their supposed communism is equivalent to start an argument online with “as a black man”

        Just a bunch of right wing trolls.

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      • AmberPrince@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah, people say right-wing when what they mean is authoritarian. There’s a guy named Bob Altemeyer that has been studying authoritarianism for decades and he makes a distinction between left wing and right wing authoritarianism.

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      • s_s@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        There’s not many all-in on authoritarianism that aren’t extreme left or right economically.

        The political compass is better than a one-dimensional spectrum, but it’s literally twice as complicated.

        You can pretty safely plot a U shaped line running through the political compass and find almost everybody. That’s why one-axis works well for describing the political climate of the USA, it’s mostly in the right half of the political compass sitting on this line.

        So tankies are very Communist (left) and necessarily very authoritarian to achieve their goals.

        They represent the other half of the political compass that Americans usually do not see. So people get confused.

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      • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        “In popular discourse, the horseshoe theory asserts that the far-left and the far-right, rather than being at opposite and opposing ends of a linear continuum of the political spectrum, closely resemble each other, analogous to the way that the opposite ends of a horseshoe are close together.”

        From Wikipedia

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    • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Extreme left-wing ideology is indistinguishable from extreme right-wing ideology. They both want to kill lots of people, and if you aren’t on their side you’re on their shit list.

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      • PopOfAfrica@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You are thinking on a 2d axis. I find the politcal compass to be a better way to think of of.

        Im on the far bottom left. A more libertarian communist. Tankies, supposedly, are on the top left.

        AlthoughI still think hexbear users arent engaging in legitimate debate.

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• rambaroo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The irony of saying this when the students say Tiananmen were literally protesting against the CCP for not being communist enough.

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  • JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Go on. What’s ironic about my statement and what you just brought up? Why do you think me saying that there are a lot of commies here, has anything to do with my view on what happened in Tiananmen Square?

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  • Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    ? your comment makes no fucking sense. Why do you people try SO HARD to have a dissenting but relevant opinion constantly? its tiring, go fuck yourself.

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  • TheLurker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Shut the fuck up you brain-dead tankie, troll farm employee.

    The demonstration was about the lack of democratic reforms. Literally one of the alternative names given was the '89 Democracy Movement '.

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  • BigNote@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There’s nothing ironic about it at all.

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• PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yes

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• awwwyissss@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And also CCP LLM bots.

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