According to most that would use the term disparagingly these days I would be a tankie, so I mean we as in me and other ‘tankies’.

A lot of the Christian right want more kids in private Christian schools as well.

There is an old homophobic stereotype that gay teachers are child molesters. I think that might be what the person was getting at. Though you’re right, they don’t want queerness normalized in any way.

Make a post on hexbear or another ‘tankie instance’ about the issues of China in good faith and you will see many posters elucidate the flaws. We say ‘critical support’ for a reason, because we can support an action that may be good in the struggle against imperialism or whatever but still critique the source of that action.

Representative for who? Natives, black people, queers, anyone remotely to the left wouldn’t say the US has been exactly democratic during it’s time. Trump and the GOP are just the current incarnation of the settlers that massacred the indigenous people and the racists who enforced slavery and later Jim Crow and segregation. They have been a part of America since it’s founding.

That makes sense at like a booth or festival vendor, I didn’t think of that. I did use cash app once at a shop where I’m at to buy unregulated weed ahah.

I’d rather my comm ban people that complain about ‘tankies’. It’s a useless term which can mean 100 things to different people, only serving really to divide the left.

don’t accept cash or credit, only some kind of cash transfer app like zelle.

That sounds sketchy, I’ve seen card only but where have you seen a business do this?

Well yeah it’s probably not actually useful right now for establishment dems to use it. Occupy Wall Street helped popularize the idea of the 99% vs the 1%, I think that sort of language is more useful for encouraging unity among the working class.

Like describing workers vs the owner class or something along those lines, there are many ways to explain marxist/socialist concepts with simple, easy to grasp language that isn’t stained with the connotations of ‘communism’ that many Americans are instinctively opposed to due to decades of red scare propaganda.

The fetishists yes, but to anyone thinking otherwise mostly all the leftists I know are strapped. It’s just an issue of organization.

Years ago I was site-wide banned for “multiple false reporting” or something for reporting comments that advocated blanket murdering protesters and black people related to BLM protests. These comments are probably still there while antifascist users and subs are banned regularly.

Yeah, I don’t think it’s very likely that a mythical jolly man brings presents to kids worldwide

At best ICE and DHS officials should be tried in a Nuremberg style court.

I think it would help teach people the term, and that could increase class consciousness among average people, which would probably cause more people to see both parties as the shams they are. If they used more explicit leftist language like that though it could trick some into thinking they are truly a left-wing party.

Yes because I would raise my daughter to get to know someone before dating them and have a good sense of character, and not assume someone was evil because they were in a prison. It’s also been shown that innocent people have been sent there.

If you’re talking about actual ‘leftists’ on a true scale, not the center and right wing dems and reps, most support gun ownership for all of the proletariat. Democrats talk about qualifications for gun ownership or more restrictions but all the leftists I’ve personally known would agree with the maxim from Marx:

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary

From the Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League

Why would we bother criticizing fascists? Do you think a nazi will change his mind because I argued against totalitarianism and xenophobia well enough? Tankies critique the left because we actually have a chance of working together. I’d be curious to know what fascist propaganda tankies espouse according to you also.

Why don’t you do something productive with your time, like attacking nazis or fascists instead of the few people that are actually working on making the US more socialist and equitable.

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I can’t help but hear every quote in the voice of Connor O’Malley like Endorphin Port