portugal eastern european memes write themselves, often with unfortunate implications
“socialist”
I was about to comment on the double standard, but then I realized I misread your instance as “lemmy.ml” 😅
There’s no double standard, the “socialist” refused to even say he was part of the “left” in the initial interviews while the other candidates had no problem announcing being part of the “left” or “right”.
What double standard are you talking about?
They meant how they thought a .ml user called someone a fake socialist when .ml users are also fake socialists usually.
Oh really? Why are they fake socialists? I don’t interact much with them
They are tankies. They advocate for communism/socialism but encourage the russian/chinese system. They say they support everyones rights but are constantly transphobic. I could go on.
All it takes to be a socialist is to believe the workers should own the means of production. Everything else is purity testing… Of greater or lesser validity.
Saying the USSR was justified in every single crime might make you a tankie and a shithead but it doesn’t make you a fake socialist anymore than opposing slavery makes someone a fake capitalist, even if that’s the obvious endgoal of terminal capitalism.
Yeah, I’m with you on this one. Shitty people exist on every political spectrum. (I’m not saying the .ml guys are part of that group, I don’t know) As long as they desire a worker controlled economy they are socialists in my book, but might also be transphobes, etc.
Tankies don’t encourage the Russian system, Russia is a neoliberal capitalist country not very different from the rest of Europe in terms of economic policy. Some tankies critically support Russia in the geopolitical sphere (stress on “critically”) because it stands against the USA (by choice of the USA) and therefore ends up supporting a lot of lesser-evils globally such as Assad and Khomeinei or even some good ones like Ibrahim Traoré.
Also, idk what you mean by transphobic. I have a hexbear account (by all means you’d call them tankies) and it’s the most trans-supportive space I’ve seen.
All the evils are on the same side. Trump and putin are huge pals now. Theres china but they commited countless genocides and are silently ereasing queer culture. The original tankies came from supporting the russian obliteration of the 1956 hungarian revolution. Most communists did not support it but the tankies were too busy nibling on russian dick and/or only believed in communism enforced with violenc, which is a shit take by itself even before you get to the issue of the ussr not being communist. As for transphobes, hexbear encouraged people really heavily to vote third-party, which we all know doesnt work in the usa, and thus basically helped trump who has been a catastrophy for trans rights. Im pretty sure tho hexbear is pretty openly pro-trans so that mightve been just idiocity. On the other hand, ml’s literal administrator and owner is a huge open transphobe.
