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There are sophisticated and nuanced critiques to be made of Western power projection, soft and hard. “Nuanced” and “sophisticated” are not words appropriate to the average hexbear or lemmygrad denizen’s take on geopolitics, and for those of us who live in the real world rather than living to argue over how many Maos can dance on the tip of the icepick that killed Trotsky, the loud and unrelenting naysaying of anything less extreme than “armed proletarian revolution now!” got to be incredibly tiresome.

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pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

The constant cheerleading of brutally-repressive regimes that don’t have any values in common with actual socialists or communists just because they oppose the US and its allies.

This is my main issue with tankies. Yeah, late-stage capitalism sucks and exploits the layman to enrich the rich further—I take no issue with that. It’s the knob-slobbering of Putin, Xi Jinping, and Kim Jong Un that makes no sense. Modern-day Russia, China, and North Korea have about as much in common with communism as oat milk has with milk: nothing but the name.

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- dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  
  as oat milk has with milk: nothing but the name.
  
  Drag thinks oat milk is milk. Drag isn’t convinced that cow’s milk is real milk, though. Milk comes from a plant, drag isn’t sure something from an animal’s boob counts. Chemically it’s too different from milk to call it the same thing.
  
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  - alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I think practicality is the only important thing here, if something looks and tastes like milk, and can be used as milk in 98% of cases, it’s fine to call it a type of milk.
    
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    dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Drag doesn’t think we should call cow breast milk real milk, because validating it makes people more likely to drink it, and that’s wrong. We should be telling them it’s weird. That should be the default position for society.
    
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  - pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    So, Drag thinks countries that believe their neighbors are part of a greater whole ruled by them as the motherland are communist?
    
    That’s imperialism, buddy.
    
    Let me know when: 1) China stops trying to exert absolute control over Tibet, Taiwan, and Hong Kong; 2) North Korea accepts that their ownership ends where their globally-recognized territory ends; 3) Russia stops invading neighboring countries.
    
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    dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Drag has no idea what you’re talking about, does not support China, and would prefer lowercase pronouns, please.
    
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