I already see Canadian tankies complaining about how right-wing Carney is.

Little did Gary know, they were after his law license. Not his marriage.

Ew. This thread is filled with tankie trash. Blocked.

This is just Lemmy and the whole “leftist” influencer sphere (read: people who watch Hasan Piker and take him seriously).

I completely agree with everything you mention here but you’re going to make a lot of Lemmies very mad.

They aren’t open to real discourse and will literally ally with Republicans if it means they can take down Democrats.

We had a white elephant party, and my contribution was an Ongo Gablogian mug.

Literally nobody at my job understood the reference.

The Affinity Suite is so worth it. Pay a single time and get all the apps on all major OSes instead of the stupid subscription bullshit Adobe tries to lock you into.

I mean you can do it as a hobby though.

Nah. The millennials would need to play and beat the game and then come to online forums to bitch. We don’t have that amount of free time.

They are nearly always Zoomers and younger. (Or college kids and teenagers if I’m getting the generations wrong again)

Let me guess, you didn’t vote in 2024, and bitched about Democrats the entire time. How’s the Trump regime working out for you kreskin?

You’re a chump that thinks the Democrats are out to attack progressives. Maybe don’t be an uneducated dork.

almost universally want authoritarianism and dictatorships? those are far right positions

These are both far right and far left positions. That’s what I’m saying.

The left tends to want some flavour of socialist democracy.

Yes, the center-left wants this. The far-left wants revolutions and purity tests, burning down the system, and leaving minorities to die and fend for themselves while they wage their “class war”.

What far right labels as far left

Why would you depend on the far right for any kind of accurate definition? Bernie is not far left in reality. He is center left.

In one notoriously hard class, my professor would post practice exams from previous years.

It turned out he also basically reused exam questions from previous years, so doing these practice exams basically landed me a perfect score in a class where the exam average usually hovered around 60%.

My peers, who refused to do the practice exams, even after I repeatedly told them of their existence and using them as my study method, accused me of cheating because I practiced using the practice exams the teacher posted with the explicit purpose of having us practice with them.

I think they were just mad I ruined the curve.

Yes pro authoritarian far left that’s basically communism.

I’d say it’s the stages before communism. When the authoritarians have to take all the power to give it to the people. The problem is that is impossible. Once the authoritians have taken all the power, they never give it up. So real communism doesn’t exist and can never exist because it always requires some type of revolution and central organization after the effects of the revolution. And that central power will never give up that power.

So just because they haven’t reached “true” communism doesn’t mean they are all of a sudden now on the “far-right”.

Today’s tankies are still considered far-left.

You can be both pro-authoritarian and far left. In fact, that’s kind of the definition of far left.

Tankies have almost nothing in common with the far left

This doesn’t make sense because tankies are the far left. What you’re thinking of as far left is actually center left.

They aren’t on the political spectrum at all because they don’t believe in any kind of governance.

I keep seeing this image repeated on Lemmy but I don’t buy it. It’s just an attempt for leftists to distance themselves from tankies. If you’re left but not a tankie, you are just center-left. Only tankies are far-left

No. It’s their job to make money. If they don’t think you’ll make them money they won’t waste resources on you.

But you probably made lots of money. :)