I’m afraid it’s tough to meet this seriously if I don’t even know what “the biggest comm” on fediverse is meant to be, from here that’s a screenshot of a post that is apparently a lib making fun of libs without knowing what a lib is.
Considering what’s said below this, this is immensely ironic.
The “tankieness” of course being the inclusion of genocidal authoritarian figures alongside thinkers and activists, not any indication of authentic substance beyond this political-compass-level meme.
“Hitler was only ONE of my listed ‘great thinkers whom I admire’! I’m not really a Nazi!”
Also, called it:
Next I predict “Kim Jong Un isn’t really a tankie, shitlib!”
Which, reading this and then seeing your profile, the story is becoming much much clearer. I don’t interact with communities where men pretend at politics all that much (or in earnest)
… if you don’t interact in political communities, why the fuck would you think you’d have any idea of how prevalent tankies are or are not here?
It’s like hearing someone complain about shit being smeared in the men’s room, you butting in to say you have no idea what they’re talking about and how YOU’VE never seen shit in the men’s room, and then saying you never use public bathrooms anyway.
Utter fuckwit.
My power seems to be that I don’t seek out “tankies,” which is to say liberal men who don’t know what liberalism or “leftism” is beyond the recursive loop of their validation communities.
That you think identifying one’s political allies as fucking Stalin and Kim Jong Un is ‘liberal’ is beyond insane.
Its funny that you list yourself as a historian, I know historians like this who don’t really know what history is either. I can also see you moderate a number of communities known to foster bigoted and juvenile misconceptions about history, so I don’t think it should be all that surprising that someone doesn’t take you all that seriously.(I wrote this before you tried to ban me after claiming to know about Fediverse very much, thanks for setting me up for a funny joke)
If a person understands politics or political philosophy in terms of the pictures of people they like quotes from (such as thinking I’m commenting on Kim Jong Un’s politics when I’m talking about how his image is used and why) I’m going to safely deduce that they don’t know much about the thing they claim to know a lot about and assume they’re not that mature if it is also apparently important to their identity with that lack of knowledge. I run into grown men – sometimes even historians – who don’t even know what liberalism is beyond the terms they were taught about from different eras of liberal policy; the fundamentals were never taught to them. I’m serious, I know tenured profs who think welfare liberalism and neoliberalism are fundamentally opposed philosophies and that it is the height of nuance to point out that the New Deal was racist. I know people who “love” Malcolm X but think activists are the bad guys if they use violenxe. They’d call themselves leftists, or left leaning, much like you and apparently whoever made that meme.
You’re right, I don’t take most people like this very seriously and dont really think about them beyond trying to understand why they’re so willfully misinformed. I figured you out pretty quick.
Ban evasion and bleating out a “The people are tired of experts!” line on history isn’t the gotcha you think it is. Sorry that you think being misinformed is equivalent to being educated on a subject. I hope you recover from being a MAGA chud in a different color of sportswear.
Considering what’s said below this, this is immensely ironic.
“Hitler was only ONE of my listed ‘great thinkers whom I admire’! I’m not really a Nazi!”
Also, called it:
… if you don’t interact in political communities, why the fuck would you think you’d have any idea of how prevalent tankies are or are not here?
It’s like hearing someone complain about shit being smeared in the men’s room, you butting in to say you have no idea what they’re talking about and how YOU’VE never seen shit in the men’s room, and then saying you never use public bathrooms anyway.
Utter fuckwit.
That you think identifying one’s political allies as fucking Stalin and Kim Jong Un is ‘liberal’ is beyond insane.
Its funny that you list yourself as a historian, I know historians like this who don’t really know what history is either. I can also see you moderate a number of communities known to foster bigoted and juvenile misconceptions about history, so I don’t think it should be all that surprising that someone doesn’t take you all that seriously.(I wrote this before you tried to ban me after claiming to know about Fediverse very much, thanks for setting me up for a funny joke)
If a person understands politics or political philosophy in terms of the pictures of people they like quotes from (such as thinking I’m commenting on Kim Jong Un’s politics when I’m talking about how his image is used and why) I’m going to safely deduce that they don’t know much about the thing they claim to know a lot about and assume they’re not that mature if it is also apparently important to their identity with that lack of knowledge. I run into grown men – sometimes even historians – who don’t even know what liberalism is beyond the terms they were taught about from different eras of liberal policy; the fundamentals were never taught to them. I’m serious, I know tenured profs who think welfare liberalism and neoliberalism are fundamentally opposed philosophies and that it is the height of nuance to point out that the New Deal was racist. I know people who “love” Malcolm X but think activists are the bad guys if they use violenxe. They’d call themselves leftists, or left leaning, much like you and apparently whoever made that meme.
You’re right, I don’t take most people like this very seriously and dont really think about them beyond trying to understand why they’re so willfully misinformed. I figured you out pretty quick.
I won’t see your response.
Ban evasion and bleating out a “The people are tired of experts!” line on history isn’t the gotcha you think it is. Sorry that you think being misinformed is equivalent to being educated on a subject. I hope you recover from being a MAGA chud in a different color of sportswear.