The comments are what you expect. All agree that we’re psychopaths who support genocide and just want authority as a goal in itself. All agree we do no leftist praxis, I guess just based on vibes. One user wrote:
let’s be honest, they should be removed from society
which is cool. One-on-one, online or in person, I’m pretty patient with people like this, but when I see a whole thread like this with hundreds of upvotes and no pushback it makes me feel tired.
lemmy.ml link in case any of you have alts and want to wade in: https://lemmy.ml/post/6930975
The democracy thread she commented in right before posting this: https://lemmy.ml/comment/5160468
good luck with that. there’s a reason why socialist states have a military and police.
“when they came for communists, I told them exactly where they are to own those authoritarian red fash tankies”
“Then they came for me and I instantly joined their cause”
Read “The Jakarta Method” to know how it was done historically.
Also watch The Act of Killing, a fantastic documentary on the same subject (definitely CW violence though). Vincent Bevins cites it as inspiration to write The Jakarta Method. I read the book first and watched the documentary last week, and it brought me to tears.
Calling tankies fascist while I call for the cleansing of tankies
I think they mean us
That reminds me of the time I quit using Reddit entirely after getting into an argument under a meme that was just a picture of Syngman Rhee with the caption “Upvote to scare the tankies” and like well over a thousand upvotes. Also people saying that mass imprisonment and executions of “Stalinists” was the same as post ww2 denazification (ironically, the position of a load of 196 users I once argued with on post ww2 denazification in the ussr is that it was authoritarian Stalinism)