nikifa

joined 3 years ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

you're aware that dev of lemmy use the term tankie as a self description too?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Dronie refers to the fact that anarchist positions are always aligned with US foreign policy.

hmm, ok. This wouldn't fit me. I'm opposing US foreign policy in most parts, not all I must admit. I'm for: Dismantle the US empire. It's just a phrase, but I mean it like that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (3 children)

I wouldn't understand what dronie is so that term might not well serve the purpose if used to address me. If you address me as anarkiddie, it be enough for a tiny giggle, but then I'll be remembered how that term is actually discrimination against children. It helps to reproduce adultism over and over again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (7 children)

huh, why the downvotes? Because I used the term tankies, but you prefer to be called Marxist-Leninist? When contemporary anti-authoritarians use the term tankie, they usually refer to contemporary Marxist-Leninist. Hope that explanation helps. So when I say you are Marxist-Leninst, I mean you are tankie.

 

this question aims to look at alternatives, not why we should remain using lemmy or any lemmy instance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (10 children)

The developers of lemmy are self-admidded tankies, what else to expect?

Tankies and the Left-Unity Scam https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ziq-tankies-and-the-left-unity-scam

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

There is a difference between people advocating for human rights abuses and people saying that some actor does in fact not engage in human rights abuses.

The main difference is, that one practice gaslighting as a means to justify such acts.
They will claim "it was just joking", or explain how in fact the abuse is something good, hence they aren't for human right violation because they are for something that they just defined as something good.