And if something did maybe happen, it’s the CIA’s fault

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          If you check the Blahaj rules it explicitly states being tankie adjacent is a bannable offence, I love it.

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            Yeah, basically. ‘Neoliberal’ and ‘lib’ are just snarl words many tankies use to mean “Anyone less fascist than Mao”.

            In general, .world is much less radical than many places on Lemmy. But they’re far from neoliberals. The average poster is slightly left of a Berniecrat, probably; that is to say, either a very strong SocDem or a very weak DemSoc.

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              Listen all I’m saying is that if we were so far left that Bernie was center right on policy the country would be a much better place for everyone.

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                Wouldn’t it be lovely? Unfortunately, we’ve got a lot of fighting on the ground to convince our fellow citizens to get their asses there instead of some weird 90s fantasy world.

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            Eh, it’s a mixed bag. There’s a very high concentration of centrist, “vote blue, no matter who,” liberals in Political Memes. They’re not the whole instance, but they’ve made a nice little echo chamber that makes them a pretty loud minority.

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          I still don’t get how the far leftists (the types who think soc dems are basically the same as any flavor of lib, including libertarian, neolib, etc) are so convinced that socialism is the answer when there hasn’t been a country that even comes close to making it work. I guess China works for certain values of working, but it’s pretty capitalist these days, and you’ve got an overbearing government that goes along with it.

          Whereas countries like you see in Scandinavia, with strong soc dem policies under capitalism like high taxes on wealth and strong safety nets, seem to be doing pretty well. I get why socialism would be good in theory but implementing it is another story.

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        most communities on ml are fine tho, also I got banned on hexbear because I called the CPC (their official name) CCP

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          The admins are tankies. It’s just better to avoid it. The smaller their communities the more of a joke it is getting banned for writing a fact.

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          I don’t have a problem with any of the communities but I regularly catch the instance ban hammer for asinine reasons.

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          I have this LINK to the Lefty Memes moderator on db0 advocating against Democracy, is an advocate for the CCP and for people in the USA to tear down the system and abandon NATO.

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          I love this article while also finding it frustrating. The author seems to be a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, but also goes into detail about how all the ML states have devolved into capitalism. Maybe that should be taken as evidence that ML’s vanguard party is a fatally flawed concept?

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        From what I know, dbzer0 is libertarian left and therefore not tankie

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        A lot of bad actors on Slrpnk but overall the community is anarchist leaning, anti-dictatorship.

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        Genuinely there are a lot of people that would like that. Maybe start with a community first before an entire instance.