can’t even say the word socialism without a bunch of these people showing up and being douches; it’s so unbelievably exhausting, especially at this particular moment in history
Also,"No War But Class War" types tend to be transphobic assholes where at best they're indifferent because to them identity politics is a frivolous liberal distraction and at worst they're just actively agreeing with the rightwing about us.
Because it can always be split more while talking of unity. They think they are more left that Dems, then that group has to repeat it splitting it again and again. Always a truer left and the superiority of being on that side
They can't even do THAT.
housing = "developers will make money"
healthcare = "big pharma will make money"
I'm really not sure what their goals are at this point. Besides, you know, "burn it all down".
Way easier to feel better-than and ignore your own shortcomings when all you ever do is berate other people for not doing what you think they should do.
*nods* I was called a fascist enabler for wanting to hold on to my ACA insurance until there is M4A (or whatever) to replace it. This kid expected me to forgo health insurance for The Cause, lol. How dare I give money to corporations!
i nvr got the china hype on the left sure its a competitor to us empire but hyping it up just for that is like hyping up dems for not being repubs u can have standards in any case
Having Luigi in your pic there and not understanding why people hype China is wild.
China isn't gonna solve the world's problems and they do terrible shit within China and to their neighbors like anyone else. But they do execute a CEO for poisoning a water supply every now and then.
I’ve come to the conclusion the world isn’t real for a lot of people. The thought process only goes as deep as “these words are different so they must mean opposite things and if one is bad the other by default must be good.”
It’s a dangerously lazy thought process on par with people in the 80s saying women in African nations should just stop having so much sex if they didn’t want aids. Ignorance is bliss and they’ll plug their ears and reject context at all cost to preserve it.
If China can save all these lives, why aren't they doing it now? Seems like it would buy them goodwill for cheaper than propping up fake islands to expand their EEZ and there's no rule that only one country can provide aid.
(I'm sure the answer is something incoherent about American imperialism.)
They remind me so much of Ron Paul “Libertarians” who often became the foundation for Trump and Conspiracy Theories.
With Koch, John Birch Society & Alex Jones influence
They are scum but I don't consider them regular leftists they're just a different type of authoritarian to. People that believe things like that comment really poisoned us all last year.
At a certain point we gotta just say “the left doesn’t exist in a meaningful sense, I’m just punching at an idiot in the internet. A time honored tradition.”
also chinese cultural and ethnic supremacy doesn't count as identity politics just like white identity politics don't count as identity politics didn't you know
Yet one more reason to stop using the left-right paradigm. It’s not useful. Again, societal mental health must be at the core of all our decisions, actions. If we can’t find our way to societal mental health then we will not survive. That refers to the human species.
I remain personally amazed that I find tankies MUCH more infuriating today, when they are irrelevant, than I did 40-50 years ago when there was still actual Communism around
JFC. I used to marvel at stories of US leftists who were ride-or-die for Stalin, no matter what evidence was presented to them about the Holodomor, the gulag, etc. I thought that level of credulousness couldn't happen again in an era of near instant availability of fact checking. I was so wrong.
Yes, this.
I mean having far-left student group in some artsy collage somewhere does not equal having US goverment overtaken by far-right narcissists. And for so many people incapable seeing this is just astonishing.
I saw someone I went to Grade & HS with. Korean adopted by a wealthy family, she would keep a calendar to make sure she didn’t wear the same outfit twice in A YEAR
"only the United States does realpolitik, the new global hegemon will be super benign" has got to be the dumbest fucking version of IR idealism imaginable
There’re idiots in every demographic. I say that really often, and I get it, I really do but sometimes I wonder if takes like these aren’t coming from Russian or right-wing trolls pretending to be really Leftist to undermine our solidarity. We know they do shit like that. And they are such parrots.
I just can’t come up with a better explanation for why there are so many idiots repeating the exact same line that’s so blatantly idiotic and transparently counterproductive. Expected you to vote for that… well look what we got instead. No, I can’t believe they actually care about Palestinians.
I would only add: people who deploy "wine moms" to describe people they hold in contempt. Just my personal observation over the last ~5 years that they're a) dumb as a box of rocks, b) smugly misogynist, and c) immovably convinced that their viewpoint is The One True Analysis.
“Wine moms” along with “black women” are our last hope for saving America in 2026 because GenX guys like me have proved that we’re lead poisoned dumbshits
Oh, yeah - China has a GREAT humanitarian record! Just ask the Tibetans, the Uyghurs, Falun Gong, or the survivors of Tiannamin Square... if you can find any, that is.
China also has THE largest population of billionaires, and the worst environmental record of any industrialized nation.
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housing = "developers will make money"
healthcare = "big pharma will make money"
I'm really not sure what their goals are at this point. Besides, you know, "burn it all down".
Way easier to feel better-than and ignore your own shortcomings when all you ever do is berate other people for not doing what you think they should do.
Notice that "they" aren't building any housing out of the kindness of their hearts, but "they" expect others to?
If it's bad to pay entities for the service they provide, that applies to labor too, right?
China isn't gonna solve the world's problems and they do terrible shit within China and to their neighbors like anyone else. But they do execute a CEO for poisoning a water supply every now and then.
(I'm sure the answer is something incoherent about American imperialism.)
It's not a colony if the colonizers and the colonized are both PoC, or if both groups are white (by the American definition, ofc).
With Koch, John Birch Society & Alex Jones influence
Saving children
I seriously hate these people. I really do.
But let’s keep acting like they’re our problem.
Do you think there's only 60 tankies?
I mean having far-left student group in some artsy collage somewhere does not equal having US goverment overtaken by far-right narcissists. And for so many people incapable seeing this is just astonishing.
The time of acting like things on the internet “aren’t real” are over
Acting like the poor revolutionary
Where does that confidence come from? An alternate universe?
CCP is notorious for lying and not keeping their promises.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7npnzio6e63coxgttadiyo34/lists/3l7wzvn5a5m2p
Do these people have the faintest idea how rose colored their glasses are?
China also has THE largest population of billionaires, and the worst environmental record of any industrialized nation.