"Oh, this is calamity! Calamity! Oh no, he's on the floor!"
Welcome to MoG!
Meanwhile On Grad
Documenting hate speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse. Memes are welcome!
What is a Tankie?
(caution of biased source)
Basic Rules:
Sh.itjust.works Instance rules apply! If you are from other instances, please be mindful of the rules. — Basically, don't be a dick.
Hate-Speech — You should be familiar with this one already; practically all instances have the same rules on hate speech.
Apologia — (Using the Modern terminology for Apologia) No Defending, Denying, Justifying, Bolstering, or Differentiating authoritarian acts or endeavours, whether be a Pro-CCP viewpoint, Stalinism, Islamic Terrorism or any variation of Tankie Ideology.
Revisionism — No downplaying or denying atrocities past and present. Calling Tankies shills, foreign/federal agents, or bots also falls under this rule. Extremists exist. They are real. Do not call them shills or fake users as it handwaves their extremism.
Tankies can explain their views but may be criticised or attacked for them. Any slight infraction on the rules above will immediately earn a warning and possibly a ban.
Off-topic Discussion — Do not discuss unrelated topics to the point of derailing the thread. Stay focused on the direct content of the post, rather than engaging in unrelated arguments.
Brigading — If you're here because this community was linked in another thread, please refrain from voting, commenting or manipulating the post in any way, this includes alt accounts. All votes are public, and if you are found to be brigading, you will be permanently banned.
You'll be warned if you're violating the instance and community rules. Continuing poor behaviour after being warned will result in a ban or removal of your comments. Bans typically only last 24 hours, but each subsequent infraction will double the amount. Depending on the content, the ban time may be increased. You may request an unban at any time.
(regarding Drew DeVault's opinion piece on Hyprland and its conservative/fascist dev and toxic community)
@H4rdStyl3z what's wrong on being a centrist?
Also, at least the admins also show their true face.
(edited the comment for clarity, lol)
That's not what centrism means, but yeah, I'm not happy about that. The corrupt political class of ours has all the means to make billions anyway from mismanaging our taxes, so sending weapons or not does little in this regard.
Well they are the center.
We are one of the country that recognizes Palestine though. And our communist dictator maintained good relations with both Israel and the Palestinian Authority. They could have easily said that we're no longer recognizing Palestine and be done with it.
Everyone let the genocide happen. We simply had more pressing issues in our proximity.
You know better :)
I'm not German, I am Romanian. Yes, there appears to be one batch of shipment to Israel, but that's about it (at least so far).
Our defense industry lies almost dead and buried, so there's nothing to produce to begin with. And that is with another 3-year-old war at our borders.
What you could say about us is that we still keep our relationship with Elbit (the company that owns the factories the hardware was sent from) but that's about all the military relationship we have with that genocidal state.
And no, we did not make billions out of this (maybe Elbit did). Our current government struggles to reduce the fiscal deficit by increasing taxes, cutting spending where it's needed the most (like from education and culture), while keeping privileges for judges and other magistrates who have the ability to retire at 47 years old with pensions 10 times higher than the one of the average folk. That's pretty much where the billions are coming from, rn. So if there is any billion that might have come to my country since Israel invaded Gaza, I personally didn't feel the difference. Quite the contrary, I finish the month with less money than before this year.
I hope that makes the picture more clear.
Well, I can flex on the fact that we're not part of Russia yet :)
(jk)
Neutrality always supports the status quo.
You must either be Left or Right. The Left will decide which one you are.
Well, rightoids are known for claiming to be centrists, claiming to be libertarians, claiming that rightism is "default and apolitical", etc and so forth.
And Lefties are known for saying anyone who thinks you should be able to contract someone to do a job for you for an agreed upon payment is a fascist.
Lmao sure buddy
You must be new here.
there are only two ideologies
mine and nazis
What‘s your ideology, goat?
I avoid labelling myself as I don't think it does any good.
But gun to the head, I'd have to say I'm an environmentalist with a touch of social ecology. Though I avoid calling myself a social ecologist because it can be affiliated with violence, and I'm not opposed to governments.
Socially, I care most about freedom, expression and democracy.
What about yourself?
You spread fake news during a genocide. You can't do nazier shit than that
And their true face is fucking ugly.
Who can support the horrid state of things. Give me a progressive over a centrist any day.
You're aussie, aren't ya?
By centrist, I mean either centre-left or centre-right, not fully centrist. I understand that being a pure centrist is pretty much impossible, but sliding into authoritarianism is the worst thing that can happen (and it's already happening around the world tbh). Both far-left and far-right have shown they only have repression in mind, and they all benefit the elites instead of the public. There's nothing perfect in either political system, but at least the centrist forces do allow some criticism if it means it will make things better imo.
And yet in the US at least, extremism won out over the centrist option, I would argue, because the centrist option was TOO centrist, and people were sick of it.
@Reverendender This is what happens when you only provide two options on the ballot - the left and the right (not to mention the president is also the executive). In much of the rest of the democratic world, systems allow for the existence of multiple political parties, so that people have where to choose from. Usually, no single party holds the majority, so forces have to form coalitions in order to form a government. This has the effect of a better representation, as extremist views are usually held only by a small minority of a population (see for example the coalition in the EU Parliament, which is leaving the far-right political families on the side).
There is a flip-side to it, indeed, where a situation like the one in France can occur - where the parliament is almost evenly split between the political groups - i.e. the center, the left and the far right. This could lead to political crises, as it makes coalition negotiations harder, but I think it is still a better outcome than having the far-right get in full control of the government.
The US political system was thought out in a way to keep extremist forces away from the mainstream, which was a good intention, but the architects of this system didn't think about the possibility of at least one of these political forces (i.e. the right in this case) to slide into authoritarianism and extremism.
I saw some opinions on the internet about the fact that there are still some Republicans who do not agree with the MAGA movement, but they're pretty much unable to do anything - MAGA has closed the ranks in the entire GOP leadership and at this point it is pretty much impossible to overthrow it.
Anarchism is a far left movement and it is very much the opposite of repression or benefiting the elite instead of the public.
That sounds promising, but you still need someone to implement it. And once they're in power, we're not sure whether that person will hold their power or if they'll be happy to give up on it.
The problem is that the Left can't agree on where the centre is.