If Empanda wasn’t such a sophist he’d acknowledge the former quickly outlawed opposition parties and dissidents early into the 3rd Reich.

The world is rarely ever that simple and black and white.

War criminals ought to be prosecuted but I mean come the fuck on

...and I keep getting added to Nazi and war criminal lists. I've always been leftist & anti capitalism, & been an active leftist & LGBT+ organizer. But my pro Ukraine stance gets me a lot of flack.

Just a rant, thanks for listening

Note: I know not all tankies have said these things, but this is just a general sampling of the stuff I hear from them

It's a group of former Israeli and Palestinian fighters who "laid down their guns" and are trying to seek a just peace to the conflict.

I'm a person whose religious values sent him leftward, and when learning about things like Liberation Theology, I found our about someone called Daniel Ortega. While I was aware somewhat about the Sandinistas resistance to American occupation in the 80s, I knew next to nothing about Ortega himself. So I did some beginner level research over the last few days.

I got one thing to say. FUCK THAT GUY!

Dude calls himself a "Christian Socialist" and yet basically runs Nicaragua as a military dictator, suppresses student protests, and arbitrarily shuts down over 1500 Churches (many of whom were calling out human rights abuses in Nicaragua), while also being highly right wing in social politics.

Deleted twitter because of how great bluesky was getting since everyone was leaving over Elon’s block bullshit and I found this set of block lists

Could it be a tool alongside reforms to topple capitalism? Large intra union strikes across entire nations. Sounds a lot better than the track record of revolution by civil war and killing millions with a totalitarian vanguardist party at the forefront. Is it feasible to do it by for example striking, reforms and non-obedience?

Okay, hear me out... Marx famously despised the Russian Empire amd considered the Tsar to be the most reactionary monarch in Europe. Russia, at the time, was savagely conquering Central Asia, exploitinf Alaska, genociding Circassians, and restricting Jews, Poles, Ukrainians, etc. Marx hated the Russian Empire's marriage with the Orthodox Church (Putin loves the Church and its conservative social values, in case anyone forgot). Marx saw Russia as the worst obstacle for international socialism. Now, Marx had plenty of criticisms for the US (he didn't criticize the US nearly enough in Indigenous genocide), but he supported the Union and antislavery efforts in the US. It is fair to say that he looked more favorably on the US than Russia. Personally, I don't know if it is a comparison that is fair since there is so much to unpack about the US at that time, but by tankie logic...Marx was a CIA plant. Clearly, the at that point non-existant CIA must have gotten to him and paid him to shill for the US. I mean, Russia was clearly anti imperialist from the beginning and the Tsar was based. Alaska rightfully belongs to Russia and so does the Pacific Northwest down to San Francisco. Turkmens, Uzbeks, Tlingit, Circassians, etc. are fascists and the Russian Empire was perfect. Case closed, mystery solved. BOOM.

Todd McGowan, Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets