Why do American leftists support / defend dictatorships?

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They don’t…

  Unless you’re counting neoliberals as “leftists” and if we’re doing that we might as well call trump an LGBTQ person of color because apparently labels don’t mean anything and we can just randomly fucking apply them to anyone.

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  • bruschetta@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Tankies gunna tankie. It’s pretty important to separate them into their own category as their ideology doesn’t mesh with anybody else’s.

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    • DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So your issue is just that the left/right categories are very broad to the point of not being that useful.

      You’ve basically said; why do Christian conservatives in America, support the Holocaust?

      Then everyone’s gone… what do you mean?

      … and your answer is “well, the German Nazis in 1942, and the American Christian conservatives are both on the right”.

      Or “why are all these dogs meowing?”… Dogs and cats are both animals, so same thing right?

      No, not really. So you’re being downvotes because of your lack of nuance.

      Why are far left communists pro-Russia… Is a very different set of assumptions than “why are leftists all supporting dictatorships?”

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    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      they label themselves as leftist / communist / socialist

      So does China and North Korea bud…

      Hell, NK says they’re a democracy too.

      People lie, that doesn’t mean you believe them.

      And that just raises more questions about why you made a new account for this post

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• SolidShake@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why do right wing American believe literally everything they hear from their aunt in Facebook?

  Left 100000000x does not support dictatorshipa.

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  • bruschetta@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • Soapbox1858@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You are talking about tankies. Who are so far left they made a lap back to authoritarianism. In no way do they represent most leftists.

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    • remon@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Those are the major tankie instances. Blocking those 3 should fix your problem.

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• Opinionhaver@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  …asked the 16 hour old account with no other post history.

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