I’m actually not sure I understand this one… sounds more like they’re just having a conversation with their reactionary neighbor and trying to speak from a perspective they think they would understand?
I guess maybe I’m confused about what makes this person a tankie, and what makes this conversation bizzar? Is it just that they’re having an intentional conversation about politics, or…?
They are a tankie because they post in Hexbear, which is a tankie instance.
I also find it funny how a MAGA is a reactionary, but democrats are also reactionaries. Everyone I don’t like is a reactionary! Not me though, I want to return to the good old status quo of the soviet union.
The idea of making wild assumptions and disingenuous conversations with your neighbour for the sole purpose of asking a group of strangers how to convert him is fucking bizarre.
IDK this one seems pretty sane except for the usual “China did nothing wrong ever.” For example, they want their neighbor to not vote for Donald. The typical Hexbear is a LARPing MAGA or an accelerationist who wants votes for Donald.
Maybe we could wedge them away from Hexbear by posting flyers around their neighborhood asking why “socialist” China is producing hundreds of billionaires.
They are a tankie because they post in Hexbear, which is a tankie instance.
Hmmm, well this looks like it’s a lemmygrad post but point taken. Safe to assume they also have tankie views, especially since they self-selected into that group
The idea of making wild assumptions and disingenuous conversations with your neighbour for the sole purpose of asking a group of strangers how to convert him is fucking bizarre.
Idk man, we all make assumptions about people’s politics. True, he went in with the intention of ‘converting’ him, but seems like he made an earnest attempt to understand his neighbor’s (presumed) perspectives and spoke to those concerns. Certainly not the worst political interaction I’ve seen, especially on lemmmy. I don’t know if I see anything problematic with what he said he said specifically, though. I guess it would be strange to be so singularly focused on people’s political opinions, fair enough.
I also find it funny how a MAGA is a reactionary, but democrats are also reactionaries.
Maybe we just have different understandings of the word? Reactionary isn’t really a political label, so much as it is just a description of a particular kind of motivation behind political policy. Any political party can have a reactionary perspective if it’s motivated by opposing or reversing social change, and being anti-immigrant is, like, the original reactionary perspective, and it sounds like that was his neighbor’s main political opinion. Even the soviets had some reactionary policies, it’s not really a binary.
I’m actually not sure I understand this one… sounds more like they’re just having a conversation with their reactionary neighbor and trying to speak from a perspective they think they would understand?
I guess maybe I’m confused about what makes this person a tankie, and what makes this conversation bizzar? Is it just that they’re having an intentional conversation about politics, or…?
They are a tankie because they post in Hexbear, which is a tankie instance.
I also find it funny how a MAGA is a reactionary, but democrats are also reactionaries. Everyone I don’t like is a reactionary! Not me though, I want to return to the good old status quo of the soviet union.
The idea of making wild assumptions and disingenuous conversations with your neighbour for the sole purpose of asking a group of strangers how to convert him is fucking bizarre.
IDK this one seems pretty sane except for the usual “China did nothing wrong ever.” For example, they want their neighbor to not vote for Donald. The typical Hexbear is a LARPing MAGA or an accelerationist who wants votes for Donald.
Maybe we could wedge them away from Hexbear by posting flyers around their neighborhood asking why “socialist” China is producing hundreds of billionaires.
Hmmm, well this looks like it’s a lemmygrad post but point taken. Safe to assume they also have tankie views, especially since they self-selected into that group
Idk man, we all make assumptions about people’s politics. True, he went in with the intention of ‘converting’ him, but seems like he made an earnest attempt to understand his neighbor’s (presumed) perspectives and spoke to those concerns. Certainly not the worst political interaction I’ve seen, especially on lemmmy. I don’t know if I see anything problematic with what he said he said specifically, though. I guess it would be strange to be so singularly focused on people’s political opinions, fair enough.
Maybe we just have different understandings of the word? Reactionary isn’t really a political label, so much as it is just a description of a particular kind of motivation behind political policy. Any political party can have a reactionary perspective if it’s motivated by opposing or reversing social change, and being anti-immigrant is, like, the original reactionary perspective, and it sounds like that was his neighbor’s main political opinion. Even the soviets had some reactionary policies, it’s not really a binary.
Hexbear, Lemmygrad–Same diff. Lemmygrad’s just transphobic
Suppose it’s really just an American thing. You guys have a much different perspective on politics than other countries.
Not sure what you’re saying is different about American politics but sure
American politics is very divisive, with no room for expressing multiple views, you either have one or the other.
Maybe sometimes, but isn’t that true for most of the western world?
not really