PugJesus

Cripple. History Major. Irritable and in constant pain. Vaguely Left-Wing.

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2025-05-07 23:38:57 UTC

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29295186

2025-03-10 23:18:42 UTC

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The White Rose was German, if memory serves. Zofia Posmysz here was involved with the Polish resistance.

2025-03-10 23:15:15 UTC

She survived incarceration under the Nazi regime, and later became a writer. She died in 2022.

2025-02-12 06:45:14 UTC

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> I’ve probably posted more here in just the last couple months than my entire decade+ years old Reddit account LMAO
Same. On topics on than Romeposting(tm) I'd love to go back to being a lurker and only an occasional contributor. I imagine it'll be a while before that day comes, though.

2025-02-10 06:48:50 UTC

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That reaction of doubling-down in response to sexism and the (sometimes impolitely stated, but most often true) accusations of masculine malfeasance in broader society is, itself, mostly created by social circumstances - how we socialize young men. Again, they are not *born* like that, they are not **born** as people who will become more sexist if accused of sexism or shown sexism in broader society, inherently; they are **damaged into** creatures which react like that. We must understand where this happens, how this happens - in the very **many** ways that it does happen - and how to counter it when removing the circumstances is not an immediate option.

2025-02-10 06:16:49 UTC

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> Because they’re Nazis.
But why do people **become** Nazis?
People are not born Nazis.
Understanding why people become Nazis helps prevent people from becoming Nazis, even if you think there's no hope for the fucks who've already dived into the ideology.

2025-02-10 01:58:58 UTC

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No no, you see, China hasn't invaded or oppressed anyone because the reactionaries they did it to deserved it.

2025-02-06 08:34:39 UTC

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Not inherently. It could just make the political analyst a moron.
Unless one's view of war is that of some kind of Command and Conquer style total slugfest, raw numbers are only part of the story. War is politics by other means - asymmetric desires and willingness to suffer losses to achieve them are often the deciding factor.

2025-02-06 08:22:56 UTC

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> I don’t think there are many people I interact with (lemmy, reddit, nostr) that love Xi or Putin.
Count yourself lucky. Outright Putin bootlicking is less common (they prefer, usually, the 'UKRONAZIS CAN'T WIN' style discourse in support of Russian fascism), but Xi bootlicking remains distressingly common, if only done by a very vocal minority.

2025-02-06 08:21:05 UTC

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That's part of the campism. If you nail them down on the topic of Russia, specifically, they will disavow modern Russia precisely because it isn't painted red. But for **every** action on the international stage, they will unfailingly support Russia, because Russia is against the West's 'camp'. Same with Iran.
On the other hand, if you nail them down on the USSR and the PRC, *actual* tankies will almost always outright speak in support of both, if not necessarily unconditionally. Though the conditions they apply are... party-approved. In the spirit of "MAYBE there were SOME excesses and bad choices, but also you have to understand that the bourgeois FORCED us to take most of these measures!" that dedicated Communists who got swept up into the GULAG still parroted to their fellow inmates during the Stalin years.
Regimes with a **very** thin coat of red paint, like Assad's Syria, still often receive this bootlicking treatment from actual tankies.

2025-02-06 08:03:33 UTC

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For me, a tankie is someone who plays apologist for fundamentally authoritarian regimes just because those regimes are painted red.
I would say there's a larger Chomskyite-style group of useful idiots who often get lumped in with tankies, but who are not, themselves, actual supporters of authoritarian-style socialism. They just eagerly eat up and regurgitate agitprop from actual tankies. Campist brainrot often runs rampant here, but they aren't actual tankies. I sometimes mock them with similar lines, though, under the old "Nine Nazis at a table" logic - when you're working for fascists, whether you agree, strictly speaking, with their ideology is of less importance.
Basically every leftist who **doesn't** believe that the path to socialism is by a vanguard party detached from actual democratic processes taking control of the entirety of society and enforcing its will on the populace is not an actual tankie.