• rivvvver@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    yeee not quite horseshoe theory tho, is it?

    after all, the meme is just pointing out that both conservatives and tankies are pro-authority. said nothing about left and right

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      It’s all they have! How dare you take their only argument from them! /s

      You are 100% right though. It’s a ham fisted deflection technique. I will defend them from people outright calling them fascists. Because there is a difference. But they are both authoritarian and in the end do a lot of the same things. Which should be discouraged no matter their intentions.

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        2 months ago

        The only thing I hate as much as a capitalist, is a communist. The only thing I hate more is a fascist.

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              Ok lib. Then your comment amounts to

              The only thing I hate as much as capitalism is its opposite

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                Wow! It’s as if I have no love for failed systems and the totalitarian bullshit they breed. Fuck off, blyat. Tell your handler nobody’s buying this bullshit anymore.

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                  Again spoken like a true lib: “everyone who doesn’t agree with me is a Putin bot!!” Check my profile for 10 seconds, you’ll see I’m actually Spanish.

                  If you oppose capitalism, communism and fascism, what system do you propose? Feudalism?

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                    You’re the one calling me a lib, blyat. Eat my dirty asshole.

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      2 months ago

      The problem isn’t with the meme conflating tankies with fascists in authoritarianism, it’s with the usage of the word tankie to refer to anything left of liberalism, that’s when this meme doesn’t apply. Tankie in the original sense (i.e. Stalinist), sure.