Here’s a link: https://lemmy.ml/comment/14025222

You being anticommunist is what I thought you meant. Those aren’t unrelated.

So you think that what I meant by “I’m more worried about [some people who] make other communists look bad” was that I’m an anti-communist? That seems highly unlikely. If I were anti-communist, surely I’d love those people precisely because they make communists look bad?

I have been acting in good-faith

Literally your first response to me in this entire thread was uncivil condescension.

Communists, Marxists, Marxist-Leninists, etc. Anyone that actually defends AES and doesn’t repeat US State Department Propaganda about the Global South.

Yeah that’s not what I mean by Tankies, and it’s not what most people mean by tankies. Not all marxist-leninists are tankies, for example. In fact I’d go out on a limb and say most aren’t. But those who try to sweep under the rug the bad things that nominally-communist states have done are tankies, and they give other communists, other marxists, other marxist-leninists, and indeed all other leftists a bad name. (As an aside, most of the time those things were done by state-capitalist governments, not communist ones.)

doesn’t repeat US State Department Propaganda about the Global South.

I’m actually from the Global South. I can promise you the US state department is full of shit. As are most Americans who speak about it, including most American leftists.

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Please participate in good faith rather than just making accusations.

How about you start by explaining what you think I mean?

Are you saying there’s nobody who defends all three and claims to be a leftist? Because that I’d say I’ve never seen. But I’ve certainly seen various accounts claiming to be leftists and defending one or two of them.

Are you saying there aren’t people who defend aggressive actions by far-right politicians? That there aren’t people who defend Netanyahu, Putin and Trump?

Honestly I’m more worried about those who claim to be communists but do things that both go against the tenets of communism and make other communists look bad. Tankies are a subset of that.

Mostly people who defend far-right aggression and pretend their stances are “leftist” getting upset when they get called out on their bullshit.

Not just that, but some of the loudest voices do more harm than good for leftism.

You’re thinking of biathlon, with cross country skiing and rifle.

It doesn’t - that’s the point.

I write developer tools. When I was doing web stuff I hated my job.

Man I’m so glad I love my job.

Yeah, Arch isn’t exactly an easy install for beginners.

I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to reveal to the world that your butt is an outie

Lol imagine a canonical employee using nixos

Uhh this is a bottle stopper

And they’re providing Ubuntu for free. If you were a paying customer and the contract you’d signed with them said they’d provide Firefox as a deb, that would be a different situation.

I agree, but unfortunately our opinions don’t move a gazillion finance bros