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Fascists often say "Just because you disagree with [fascism] doesn't make it evil!" as a way to deflect from their own moral culpability in their belief systems.
I'd rather be a liberal than a fucking tankie. If I had to describe myself, I'm somewhere on the spectrum between social democrat and democratic socialist. If that makes me a liberal to you, then so be it.
No, that's what tankies do, accusing anyone who disagrees with them as being evil. I only accuse authoritarian assholes of being evil, and I do that whether they're tankies or literal fascists.
Well you're pulling a lot of water for tankies by trying to defend them...
No, but something doesn't have to be an official party line for me to recognize patterns and trends. Tankies are all over the internet, especially on lemmy, peddling their bullshit. Don't fucking gaslight me by pretending that doesn't mean anything.
Again, no, I dont claim anyone who disagrees with me is a tankie. I claim anyone who acts like a tankie, talks like a tankie, posts like a tankie, and argues in defense of tankies, is a tankie.
What you're doing is no different from when the literal fascists say "You can't just call anyone who disagrees with you a fascist!" I don't. I call fascists fascists.
In both cases there's a specific set of criteria they have to meet in order to reach that threshold. And in both cases those criteria include being overbearing, authoritarian extremists, glorifying violence, and being either intellectually dishonest or stunted. Whether they're doing it in the name of ethnonationalism or proletarian revolution is small change compared to those aspects.
And if you're about to label me as an "enemy of the proletariat" just because I'm against revolution until all possible alternatives have been exhausted, just know that that's something a tankie would do also.
No, never once did I claim tankies are literal fascists or hold fascist ideologies. I said they act the same. From the get-go, I specified that I was referring to methodology rather than ideology. If you're incapable of making that distinction, that's on you.
Actually it's not. Because you're calling people who are left-wing fascists. So either you don't know what fascism is, or you don't give a shit. Your nonsense about methodology rather than ideology is, per your own statements, meaningless.
You really do love playing with your little strawman dolls, don't you?
No, your thought is just confused and stupid.
Have fun with your gymnastics to justify your defense of the status quo. Your arguments are just "nuh uh! tankies bad! everyone I don't like is tankies!". So nothing of value is lost when I block you now.