• Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net
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    2 years ago

    Lemmy feels a lot more authentic to real life. If I started talking about tinfoil hat conspiracies, my friends would ridicule me to no end.

    As they should.

    Same here.

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      2 years ago

      If I start talking to random people in a bar odds are I won’t meet a single one who will start calling me a Nazi because I believe in the Uyghur genocide…

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          Tankies tend to assume any accusation against a Marxist state is either a lie or the victims deserved it.

          One of the reasons is that you’ve got people like the Heritage Foundation running around including Nazis in their “victims of socialism” lists.

          Both as the victims and perpetrators btw, lmao.

          Mostly though they just seem weirdly stuck in a Cold War mentality.

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            2 years ago

            Everybody loves jerking off about failed states but leave out how they always have to make it a vacuum while constantly under fire, conspiracy, and embargo by every capitalist state on the planet.

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              2 years ago

              Ok, but how does that change the fact that Lemmy’s communists will call you a Nazi for pointing out the genocides perpetrated by those States?

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                  2 years ago

                  It’s not whataboutism when the person is bringing the conversation back to the topic that another person whatabouted away from.

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                2 years ago

                On today’s episode of “Things everyone says lemmy leftists do but have never been able to provide examples of”

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                  2 years ago

                  Nah, it’s just that when provided with examples people like you either stop responding or try to find a justification for it.

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                    2 years ago

                    So, you can’t provide examples and just need a narrative to attack anything you don’t like.

                    Got it.

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      2 years ago

      And there are no conservative ideas that aren’t tinfoil hat conspiracies, I guess

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        2 years ago

        There are some - ideas that people should just eat shit and work as slaves.