That’s the Hexbear Shrine to DortOwl, mashallah

Isn’t Vic3 basically a historical materialism simulator, and the chuds were mad that Communism was OP? If I recall, they wanted it nerfed, but that didn’t really happen.

“Tankie” is a word that originates from British communist circles in the 50s. It was used by communists who opposed the Soviet invasion of Hungary to derisively describe their comrades who supported the invasion. Photos in the British newspapers and such showed a lot of imagery Soviet tanks rolling through Budapest, hence “tankie”.

So, it has its origins as a silly sounding, incredibly niche, bit of British slang. It faded into obscurity after this, but got picked up again by leftists on the internet as a way of poking fun at each other. It’s a funny sounding word and all. At a certain point over the last decade or so, it’s breached containment, and liberals, especially here on Lemmy, love to throw it around without really having a firm idea what they mean by it. I’ve seen everyone from Marxist-Leninists, to Anarchists, to liberal Pro-palestian activists, all called “Tankies”.

OP is using the term here to poke fun at that vague liberal usage. As many liberals, at least here on Lemmy, would look at the calculus of, “US foreign policy is more erratic and dangerous than that of China” and declare it a “tankie” talking point, or “simping for authoritarianism”, as though making an observation about different nation’s foreign policy approaches says anything else about ones opinions of those states other policies or actions.

I’m making a glib joke about the liberal insistence on utilitarianism when it comes to voting, and how that ethical framework isn’t evenly applied to international relations.

And here I thought liberals loved choosing the lesser evil, smh

But you’re talking to MLs right now…

They’re calling him stupid, and therefore unable to so something simple, like tie his shoes.

Which like… Yeah he genuinely might be that dumb. This kid needs help, not a platform to spew bullshit

Just log off, please. Nobody likes this shit

It’s that through Morgan’s work on ancient familial structures that Engles discusses in Origin of The Family, Private Property, and The State?

My understanding is that, while a lot of the nitty gritty details have since been shown to be wrong, that the general outline still more or less holds

So idk if you’ve looked outside lately, but the USSR doesn’t exist anymore, and the United States… Does

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Pretty sure a friend of mine, in a tgirl polycule, lives in this house. In Portland, of course

Idk, Ethan doesn’t even pretend to feel bad about the whole genocide thing. There’s absolutely no light in his eyes. He’s opportunistically saying what he needs to.

Natalie, meanwhile, I think genuinely feels horror at the situation, and is so paralyzed by it, and her own stupid twitter addiction, that she’s cajoled herself into a similar position.

It’s like how you can solve a math problem in different ways. At the end of the day they both got to the same conclusion, so in that sense, we can just ¯_(ツ)_/¯ and declare them heinous dipshits. But at the same time, I do think it matters how people get there.

Struggling to get in the best dunks

The only True Leftist isn’t on the internet at all, nay, not even on earth!

The only True Leftist is Azathoth, the blind idiot God at the center of the universe

If you asked her, I’m sure she’d she doesn’t support genocide and that she doesn’t want it to happen.

But the tenor of that infamous tweet was one of nihilistic resignation, which like… On the one hand it’s kind if a distinction without a difference, the resulting inaction is the same.

But on the other hand, I do think it’s worth distinguishing, because her reasoning is honestly way more frustrating than just outright genocide support. If someone openly supports it, then ok cool, you’re evil and you’re my enemy.

But this kind of nihilistic resignation is… Just fucking annoying. The Palestinian people are still here, and they’ve already been through so damn much. So to throw up you’re hands, as a rich white woman, and say there’s nothing you can do, and that it’s a lost cause, why? Because you saw some upsetting videos online? Because some peopl were mean to you on Twitter?.. It makes me wanna beat my head against a wall! .

her shitty Gaza tweet from like 2 years ago

That tweet was way more recent than that

Buddy…asking you to back up you’re claim isn’t bad faith. Are you fucking stupid?

I genuinely want to know about the things you’re claiming, and you won’t pony up the information. I’m not the one acting in bad faith. I responded to you, and pressed you, because you called another poster, who rightfully pointed out Canada’s status as a settler colony, “not nice”. If anything, trivializing the problem of Colonialism like that is what’s bad faith here.

Nah man, telling me to do the leg work for you sucks actually.

You said:

Canadians have become aware of our colonial past and are working to correct it with Indigenous Canadians

Great! Show me! Back that up!

That’s all very cool, do you have any info on initiatives doing this work in Canada, that I could read?