We've been online for a year. Hooray?
I’ve had some time to think about the “culture” of lemmy and I think I figured out something I didn’t understand about the libs. Tankie means “willing to act” and not anything really to do with the hierarchy, the Soviet Union or how the word tankie has been used for my entire life. Tankie used to mean willing to use the army to suppress any descent with the goal of achieving communist government now it means anyone willing to act extra-democratically.
This is an extreme liberal understanding of politics and the human political experience. It totally cedes all action and grants a monopoly of violence to the state while rendering everyone else as a non participatory actor subject to the whim of governments and politicians. They believe they get to participate in elections by voting which is why they are so vicious in enforcing having to vote and the importance of voting despite all evidence that the elections are being manipulated worldwide and that majority rule is actually fundamentally unjust. As Emma Goldman said, “If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal"
Anarchists aren’t peaceful protesters either and I’m really not sure how the dynamic on Lemmy specifically became “Tankies bad violent actors and all violence is wrong” and “Anarchists are non violent leftists with no defined beliefs” for fucks sake Anarchists firebomb police. Stonewall was a riot. I’m willing to put my life on the line for my comrades, that doesn’t mean I’m subject to Russian propaganda or love Putin and that is why this repeated propaganda from liberals makes me mad. The most vocal people on this platform have already given up the fight and ceded all power to state structures that WILL kill them.
We are not asking for animal liberation. We are demanding it.
Nationalism is a disease.