tocopherol

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[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

According to most that would use the term disparagingly these days I would be a tankie, so I mean we as in me and other 'tankies'.

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

A lot of the Christian right want more kids in private Christian schools as well.

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

There is an old homophobic stereotype that gay teachers are child molesters. I think that might be what the person was getting at. Though you're right, they don't want queerness normalized in any way.

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Make a post on hexbear or another 'tankie instance' about the issues of China in good faith and you will see many posters elucidate the flaws. We say 'critical support' for a reason, because we can support an action that may be good in the struggle against imperialism or whatever but still critique the source of that action.

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Representative for who? Natives, black people, queers, anyone remotely to the left wouldn't say the US has been exactly democratic during it's time. Trump and the GOP are just the current incarnation of the settlers that massacred the indigenous people and the racists who enforced slavery and later Jim Crow and segregation. They have been a part of America since it's founding.

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

That makes sense at like a booth or festival vendor, I didn't think of that. I did use cash app once at a shop where I'm at to buy unregulated weed ahah.

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (17 children)

I'd rather my comm ban people that complain about 'tankies'. It's a useless term which can mean 100 things to different people, only serving really to divide the left.

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

don’t accept cash or credit, only some kind of cash transfer app like zelle.

That sounds sketchy, I've seen card only but where have you seen a business do this?

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Well yeah it's probably not actually useful right now for establishment dems to use it. Occupy Wall Street helped popularize the idea of the 99% vs the 1%, I think that sort of language is more useful for encouraging unity among the working class.

Like describing workers vs the owner class or something along those lines, there are many ways to explain marxist/socialist concepts with simple, easy to grasp language that isn't stained with the connotations of 'communism' that many Americans are instinctively opposed to due to decades of red scare propaganda.

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The fetishists yes, but to anyone thinking otherwise mostly all the leftists I know are strapped. It's just an issue of organization.

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Years ago I was site-wide banned for "multiple false reporting" or something for reporting comments that advocated blanket murdering protesters and black people related to BLM protests. These comments are probably still there while antifascist users and subs are banned regularly.

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah, I don't think it's very likely that a mythical jolly man brings presents to kids worldwide

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