Z_Poster365 [none/use name]

There’s never been an imperialist nation where any communist party has come to power via the ballot box. It’s never happened even a single time.

The CIA killed the Australian Prime Minister and covered it up when he went against US interests. They are a cucked vassal state, nothing they vote on matters whatsoever. They have to obey America.

I used to be where you were a decade ago. Studying all the voting systems and trying to think of tweaks to the electoral system to fix democracy and make it more reflective of popular will. By the way, Single Transferable Vote is much better than simple Ranked Choice systems, but that’s besides the point. This is a dead end. There’s no tweaks that will fix this fundamentally broken machine made to serve the rich. You have to give up on this idealism and accept that the entire thing is irredeemable and corrupt.

Democracy cannot co-exist with capitalism. Private accumulation of capital distorts the system to such an extent that the principle of equal voices is completely lost.

That, and do some non-electoral things if you’re picking up what i’m putting down

How do you get from “never critique anything” to “I can be an anti-communist ideologue”?

lmao

anti-communism is always fascist. When you engage in “tankie punching” you engage in fascist anti-communism

all “right wing opinions” are dogshit

Yes, seriously. Liberals love vaguely coded moralisms and ideals, but they never specify what they mean systematically. America is more “authoritarian” by any definition I can conceive due to its hundreds year history of slavery, imperialist war and mass incarceration than any other country on earth

America is the most authoritarian nation in human history

They have the highest incarceration rate of all time, and have destroyed the sovereignty of billions of people

probably not, it’s too online and embarrassing an they’ve already built up enough propaganda around “communist” and “authoritarian” to drop those terms. Mainstream Liberals love being taken seriously. It’s only online they will lower themselves.

The average lib who uses tankie has no idea of its origins, and it’s origins are now so irrelevant as it has nothing to do with the groups that are labeled. Only liberals bring up the Hungary thing instead of discussing how the term is used in modern context

That “authoritarian putting down of a revolution” was the squashing of anti-Semitic rightwing pogroms and mobs. Good riddance.

Every nation state in existence is authoritarian, the different is towards who. You are still deep in Liberal dogma

Nope, you will get called a tankie if you support Palestine. Tankies are generally anti imperialist war while the squishier social Democrat types are pro-war. Tankie authoritarians were against WW1 while the “lib left” all voted along nationalist lines

generally it vaguely means “communists” as well as “anti-imperialists”, with the caveat that left communists are excluded as a separate thing