• negativeyoda@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Capitalism is a fucking shit show, but tankies legit confuse the hell out of me. I’d compare them to flat earthers where my first reaction is, “that’s sort of funny, but those people don’t actually exist, do they?”

    • boredtortoise@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      It’s part LARP, part psyop, part finding belonging in tribalism.

      So much scorn towards redditors and right-wingers (for a reason of course), BUT they still act like r/politicalcompassmemes and the_donald, qanonists etc. in a meta role.

      “We’re just joking with the racism and totalitarianism because we have a flair/because we play the straw-man communist role”

      In the end they just support right-wing dogma inside a caricature of how right-wing propaganda says communism/leftism is.

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      1 year ago

      I can tell you Hexbear is full of people enshrining China as the perfect country (they deny the Uyghur genocide but embrace its dictatorship as ideal) and calling everyone not from Hexbear a “shitlib” regardless of their political views.

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      1 year ago

      Side bar! They are basically red-fascists disguising themselves as communists.