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Tankies just love to make perfect the enemy of good (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 hours ago by InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world to c/meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

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Sometimes I will run into threads like this of tankies disparaging the small socialist movements we do have here in the US. They will also pretend that they don't do such a thing.

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[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 47 minutes ago* (last edited 30 minutes ago) (1 children)

You don't have to be a "tankie" to criticize Mamdani and his half arsed agenda that he constantly abandons. Such as keeping the far right police chief, tempering his criticism of israel, supporting hakim jeffries against a proposed primary, reinstating homeless encampment sweeps and on and on. Hell he doesn't support workers control of the means of production hardly a socialist in any real sense.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 4 points 41 minutes ago

Its a fair take, but it really says more about how much work we have to do. Tankies are basically saying that the task is so huge we should not even try in their critiques of Mamdami and voting to grow the number of progressive politicians we could have.

Note that this does not mean we stop other forms of organizing.

[–] punkideas@lemmy.world 25 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Tankies just want their own dear leader to oppress people under.

[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 10 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I don't think they want anything - they just like to shit fling.

They're what happened to the worst, most contrary child you had in your school after they grew up and stopped having a forced audience to antagonize.

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Naa they think they will be the dear leader and run everything, not realizing they'll be the ones in the gulags.

[–] aaa999@lemmy.world 29 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

mls 🤝 attacking non ml leftists because they prefer fascism to non ml leftism

true in spain, true in germany, true in the usa, true in all centuries, get mad nerds

[–] Rose@lemmy.zip 10 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

By what definition is "ml leftism" not an oxymoron?

[–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 2 points 39 minutes ago

Seating arrangement.

Not even joking.

[–] loaf@sh.itjust.works 29 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I forgot to block Lemmy.ml, responded to a meme, and had several genocide-denying tankies show up like an angry ant colony.

Instance blocking is such a great feature lol

[–] Widdershins@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I just learned how to block communities I have been banned from before blocking them. You know, mod overreach and them being little pissbabies. They beat me to the punch a few times. How do you block whole instances? Thanks in advance.

Normally to block a community I did it from the sidebar. After being banned that button goes away for some godawful reason when it is most needed. You can still add the communities to your block list manually in user settings. Thanks again to the user who told me about that last week.

[–] loaf@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I’m using Mlem for iOS, and I’ll search for instances in the search tab, long-press, and block that way.

There’s a way to do it on the web version — I just can’t remember at the moment since I primarily use an app.

I found this, though. Hope it helps!

[–] Widdershins@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Thanks! It was there the whole time I just didn't scroll all the way down. My much longer list of blocked communities left it hiding all the way at the bottom. The first row is as long as whatever entry is the longest.