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this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2023
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It's the dunk tank.
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I mean I kind of am since I am helping build a new party centered on decolonial Marxism but I don't think that is what they are talking about
are you the person running that account? if so god speed to your mental health comrade those patsocs are vile
No but Sungmanitu is a personal friend of mine
well let them know they've got comrades on hexbear/lemmygrad rooting for them (if they even know what those are lol)
lol yeah they do, my main role in the org is internet liaison/terminally online genX guy.
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Welcome!
The synthesis:
Imo when you combine the two simcerely you end up with CLR James or Franz Fanon: nationalists with a cautious and ambivalent relationship to nationalism.
If you are from 1973 then holy based :07:
It's hard to imagine anyone this cool whose my father's age, all of them suck.
We were all wounded at Wounded Knee
Fun fact this is the same band that is used in Guardians of the Galaxy with the song Come And Get Your Love
The initial drum beat is also the same BPM as traditional indigenous drumming played during ceremonies and the base line picks that up and carries through the whole song.
There are definitely cool people from then and before, my dad and my stepdad (who is Navajo) are a couple of them.
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i think it's a reference to Wounded Knee but Nakoichi might also be a boomer idk.
lol compared to most people on here I am a boomer I guess, but yes you are correct it is a reference to Wounded Knee.
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I still flip flop between ML and anarchism to be honest. I'm ML because of climate change time constraints but anarchist in heart.
Really what I care about is improving things. And I will use whatever toolbox seems to be the best option under the conditions in order to achieve that.
the centrist leftist take
Am I an ML? An anarchist? Who cares, I just wanna grill (the rich)
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A friend of mine always says "I'm an ML now so I can be an anarchist one day in the future"
that's a good one
I have been converted to third worldism by all the contradictions. Something global historical materialism something super exploitation.
I think third worldism is about to be ripped apart by climate change. We're going to see a very very rapid destabilisation occur from climate refugee movements numbering in the tens of millions. It took just thousands of Syrian refugees to provoke huge EU destabilisation that led to Brexit, Greece, Italy, far right movements, etc etc... What's going to happen when the numbers are in the millions is going to blow it out of the water.
This rapid destabilisation is going to create a lot of revolutionary events.
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Yeah I would love for it to be possible for us to simply build our new world and show people a better way, but we are running out of time and more authoritarian measures are going to be necessary.
"more authoritarian measures are going to be necessary."
Welp, that's the gotcha for calling you 'tankie' according to these people.
Use state measures, and they would treat you as oriental orc with no sense... get crushed by authoritarians and they will publicly worship you while secretly celebrating a progressive defeat towards reaction...
Edit: I'm pro-Nakoichi, just to clarify...
it all depends on whether by "authoritarian" the liberals mean "classes, hierarchies, oppression, bigotry and exploitation" or if they simply mean "using violence to bring an end to classes, hierarchies, oppression, bigotry and exploitation." I find that they tend to mean the latter. Hence, I leave it to Engels:
and also, oddly enough, Mark Twain:
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"tankie" has become such a pavlovian response to these people that the second they hear it they've decided they no longer need to consider anything this person might have to say. Like conservatives the second they hear something is "woke" and they throw a tantrum
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I haven't come across any Anarchist theory that explicitly forbids tanks... 
i gotta say i literally do not give a fuck if an ML state or anarchism happens first or whatever. I JUST WANT THIS HELL TO BE OVER 
Funny you should say https://twitter.com/RefuseRaccoon/status/1488653392389890049
That's basically the stance I put forth in my pinned twitter thread lol
tankie just means "anyone to the left of me", exhibit #10392
classic mistake. u see, tankie-ism is when you criticize people who love genocide. hope that helps!
It's just really funny when like, look at my pfp lol
tbf i think these people think anarchists are tankies
they dont have a concept of what the word actually means
tankie has been rhetorically whittled down from its original 1950s CPGB infighting meaning to just a worthless slander against any and all anti-imperialists, regardless of political tendency.
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That user's instance defederated with us.
Not because of your exchange but because they thought these posts were serious
I'm sorry what's wrong with those screenshots? I see not a single problem in any one of those screens????????? Jokes about Blahaj, the IMF and some other stuff, staying inside Hexbear, is not a reason to defederate at all. Weird.
People having a good time joking among themselves on Hexbear is not disruptive behaviour. It's not trolling, it's not disruptive, it's not harassment or abuse. Are there tankies here? Damn right there are. There are also anarchists, democratic socialists and there's probably a socdem hiding somewhere that hasn't yet been bullied too much for being a lib. This is just anticommunism. "Tankie instance" is just "they allow communists". It's incredible colony-brained shit, these people need to decolonise their minds.
One of the screenshots is literally just someone explaining how our custom emojis work lmao wtf
It's showing that you guys are communists. Hell, you're even federated with those awful bigoted tankies over at Lemmygrad!
Noooooo 
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these fuckers just can't stop lying. how is it possible that so many people keep repeating that we mass-downvote posts when we literally disabled downvotes years before federating
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I'm doing my part!
How did they not recognize the Grover Iraq pasta. Netizens these days have no appreciation of history.
pawb.social just stated that they're “the Furry Community's hub on Lemmy.” Will someone from their depleted and neoliberal instance please inform them that we too have a Furry Community, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than theirs, and our Furries can shitpost!
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Don't you know? Anyone left of Nancy Pelosi is a tankie.
LALALALALALA I CANT HEAR YOUUUU I CANT HEAR YOUUU
A real anarchist would wholeheartedly believe CIA and fascist propaganda pieces about their ideological enemies. 
It’s been real funny watching lemmy ppl call users whose views I’ve developed a nuanced understanding of tankies.
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