Actually, this town has more than enough room for the two of us
He/him or they/them, doesn’t matter too much
Marxist-Leninist ☭
I advocate for worker organization and revolution, I blame the Dems for spoiling the left as far-right wingers and I blame the Reps as far-right wingers. Even if every single third party voter in every swing state voted for Harris and convinced 2 or 3 others to do the same, Harris still would have lost handily.
You have no idea what you’re talking about.
The Democrats share responsibility with the Republicans and Imperialists that have supported Israel’s settler-colonial genocide for nearly a hundred years
I have been pro-Palestine since far before October 7th, 2023
Even if I wanted to get Trump elected, I couldn’t. The Democrats lost because they ran an awful campaign and shifted even further right despite polling telling them that at that point swing voters would rather vote for Republicans.
What goalpost? Legitimately, I have no idea what you’re even trying to say here.
They competed against Trump in 2020 and ran a more progressive campaign, and won. They competed against Trump in 2024 and ran a genocidal campaign that paraded around warmongers like Liz Cheney, and lost even the popular vote.
Obama is the premier example of a warmongering neoliberal that could perfectly orate for progressive voters despite his actual policy, both domestic and foreign.
It is not the same thing, lol. If Arab-Americans wanted Trump to win, they would have voted for Trump.
How is it “dishonest?” As a Leftist voter, it absolutely depicts what I agree with, liberals have been moving further and further right to the point of rationalizing genocide. How is it a “horrible misunderstanding?”
It’s more that anyone that uses the word “tankie” as an unironic pejorative is extremely likely to have never read Marxist theory and are just trying to attack Marxists that go against the standard western narrative. You just pulling the Wikipedia article when both of us are obviously familiar with the term is just condescending.
Nobody is intentionally “authoritarian.” The people trying to separate “authoritarian” Communists from “true” Communists are the same people that say there has never been “true” attempts at building Communism. Moreover, the separation point between “authoritarian” and “democratic” is never outlined, it’s purely vibes-based and meaningless. Marx and Engels were often called “authoritarian” as well, to the point that Engels wrote On Authority to debunk the entire vibes-based notion of it.
I am not treating you like you are “insane,” but that you are out of your depth when it comes to Leftist theory if you’re going to be throwing the term “tankie” around like it has actual meaning.
So you picked a hodge-podge of random policies, most of which don’t exist in any real capacity, to do what, exactly? Try to paint the DNC as a bottom-up Worker Party, and not the neoliberal party that exclusively serves its donors?
Did any of those pass?
Which part is not your experience? That you call leftists “tankies?” Or that @yogthos@lemmy.ml is a leftist?
What do you mean “authoritarian manipulation?” What on Earth are you talking about?
The Dems won many elections and still moved right. And yes, the Dems would get more right wing if they could get away with it.
No, the “lesser evil” won many times and still went far right.
Very surprising that the main instance admin’d by leftists has leftists on it.
The meme is 100% good-faith, and it’s made by a Leftist that is sick of the constant far-right slide the Dems go through. The account making this comment frequently attacks leftists as “tankies” as well.
Just making sure the context for this comment is visible.
The Dems are just going along with the slide, that isn’t improving things. They aren’t compromising with the people, but with Capitalists. As a result, they are going forward with what is in no uncertain terms a genocide, and are actively supplying it.
No, that’s not what Leftists have been advocating for. Leftists have been advocating for revolution and ceasing support for genocidal parties.
To the surprise of 0 Leftists, Capitalism is incapable of solving the Climate Crisis.
What in the world are you on about now? Can you come back down to the realm of reality, so we can uave an actual conversation? How would I be both a Russian Bot and an all-powerful third party voter that somehow decided this election?