I’m with Andrewism on the whole “left unity” thing. The left never was, never will be, and doesn’t need to be unified. We can just collaborate (or not) with those of other political persuasions on a per-project basis.
The reason tankies push “left unity” is because they plan to be in charge of the unified left. Fuck that noise, we don’t need it.
Hexbear is composed of leftists of all shapes and sizes
Well, that’s a big fat lie, unless they literally mean their physical shapes and sizes. Ideologically they are all in lock-step, they can’t be anything else, since a strict rule of indoctrination by ban has always existed on that instance.
To be fair, they do have the one token anarchist that shows up whenever they brigade a community. Any anarchist that would willingly hang out with MLs seems pretty sus to me, though.
I’d agree some semblance of left unity would be valuable if tankies actually had left leanings other than saying they support lgbtq. they don’t even actually support lgbtq because they constantly deny any allegations of their favorite authoritarians having any ill intentions towards the group. also they are adamant that china is doing nothing bad to Uyghurs, and that Russia is fully in the right invading Ukraine. Tankies are fucking dumb
My favorite is when tankies don’t have any other enemies, and you can watch them tear each other apart over whether LGBT people are people, or whether their ‘comrades’ in the developing world are right about Western degeneracy destroying their good, cis-straight cultures.
It’s astounding to watch so many LGBT tankies sudden realize they would get the bullet in an instant, and immediately do nothing with that information.
They’re communist, thats what makes them left wing.
Yall are so quick to say anything bad is right wing, it turns into denial.
they call themselves communist because they align with ‘communist’ authoritarian regimes. that doesn’t make them left wing. at most they could be knocked to centrist for being socially leftish while politically authoritarian right
I’m of the opinion that left/right has become strongly economic in its connotations, and therefore, tankies, as anti-capitalists, are still strongly left. Just, y’know, being stupid about it.
I’m of the opinion that left/right has become strongly economic in its connotations
Always have been. It’s just mushed together with other axes due two USA’s two-party system which makes politics seem one dimensional.
Left Unity is valuable… when it’s not just an excuse for tankies and trolls to drive off everyone else so they can enjoy their circlejerk until they realize one of their own has a slightly different opinion and needs to be sent to the GULAG.
