Joe Rogan is one example. He was a Bernie supporter and is quite liberal, but he failed the purity tests by having a wide range of guests on his show, and then later around Covid vaccines and his criticism of "woke" so he was cast out of the progressive coalition, to that coalitions own injury in my opinion.

Smartest liberal

Have you perhaps considered that the distrust in our institutions was also caused by propaganda, and that in general they are run by good people who do a decent job?

I stand corrected, an even smarter liberal

they're also getting mad about the same thing on the .world latestagecapitalism

I almost never seen any moderates being called a Tankie. Only when they end up making apologies for said examples, or more recently for various terrorist groups like hamas. Granted, I’m just left leaning and stay out of economic philosophies but I’ve clashed a lot in political topics with the definitely Tankie heavy user base on here.

.world famously a tankie haven now

If I read "tankie" one more time I'm gonna fucking McLoseit

https://imgur.com/a/1WV5W1o

uhm what the fuck? Just going to pause here, because you all seem to be affixed to redditor reactions, and not the fact that a massive subreddit is rightfully banning anti-China speech for being anti-socialist…

What the fuck is going on?

Liberals complain about how tankies don’t tolerate a plurality of views, but get real vague when you ask them specifically what views they want you to tolerate.

Is the Red Scare not taught in schools or something anymore?

Maybe left leaning or adjacent subs are a bit more aware of Red Scares and aren't having it? It's something I see rarely mentioned.

user/Djamalfna:

Ideological Leftists generally do not consider themselves "Liberals". In fact they're pretty clear that they consider "Liberals" the enemy, despite Leftism being a branch of Liberalism (The "Worker" can't be free until everyone has Civil Rights, The "Worker" can't even organize or write Leftist Philosophy without Liberalism existing). Modern Leftism is a confusing mixture of state-pushed (read: CN/RU) propaganda and ideologies that make no sense in the real world.

Redditors are so used to being able to complain to the manager. Friends, welcome to the world of message boards where people run things in ways you don't like and you have zero recourse because they own the servers. The fact that Hexbear is as democratic as it is is frankly pretty unique.

Why do my fellow whiteoids have such a hard time imagining that some of us just genuinely think China is (on the whole) cool and good?

Like, my privilege is showing but I've been to China and it's sick as hell, the people are awesome, culture is rich, history is deep and it's easily the wealthiest AES nation on the planet. No shade to Vietnam and Laos n them but China was a whole other level of "WOAH THEY REALLY FUCKIN DID IT." Meanwhile the west is in shambles and are mad that they offshored their own industry? WE TOLD YOU SO, FUCKHEADS. WE TOLD YOU SO FOR A HUNDRED FUCKING YEARS.

AND AND AND

Since then China has gone global with their influence and wealth and are helping shore up heaps of small nation states that would otherwise be easily crushed and exploited by the existing failing hegemon fuck THAT. NO. CHINA: NUMBER ONE.

The lib in my group chat got mad about being autobanned from there for having the perfectly reasonable take that everyone is evil if they dont for kamala