Seriously blaming the tankies again? How bourgeoisie of you lol

If you want to blame something, blame the media. Both news and social media have completely sold out for profit. You CANNOT have a democracy if vast parts of your population is being misinformed. And this started with talk radio in rural areas many decades ago. And the democrats did nothing - because they are not left. Thanks for all the empty “Hope and Change” Obama!

So yeah, blame socialists all you want but their critique was valid.

You need a revolution or reformation. A massive change in who owns the means of communication to have a free press again that is not purely profit driven. Can you even imagine that? Is that something you would say? No. You’d rather blame and denigrate socialists and call them tankies. Look at the mass protests, it seems the libs aren’t even calling for Trump to step down and demand new election lol. People would rather bow to unjust laws and simplistic principles than believe in democracy. Of course they are all being stage managed.

But this is just pathetic.

Republicans are always evil. They don’t do anything good. Ever. They’re a known quantity. That’s what we expect of them.

We expect the Dems to be better. And they get the smoke when they fail at that. Cutting Corp taxes. Border crackdowns. Genocide. Those are things that should exclusively be the pervue of Republicans. If dems run to the right they will always lose because the right was so triggered by Obama that policy doesn’t matter to them whatsoever. It’s purely teamsport for them. You can’t appeal to them in any way. They see a (D) and vote against that person. Dems would never lose another election if they went only as far left as Bernie Sanders. We would have a perpetually booming economy and a high standard of living. But even that is far too far for the DNC Services Corp. So we get a gameshow host and a car salesman destroying everything.

Seems to be a lot of talk here about authoritarianism.

Is demanding responsible speech over free speech absolutism “tankie”? …because the US is demonstrating exactly what happens when you give free speech to fascists and don’t monitor their “religion”.

I dont know what you would expect anyone to say. Is there some surprise piece of wisdom about GOP politics that literally everyone in the country doesnt already know?

Republicans have no enemies on the right. Democrats have no friends on the left

Republicans ran on a purely populist agenda, that resonated with many non voters. If Dems had an ounce of sense, instead of digging their heel on ‘vote losing’ points, they would have acknowledged the merit of those populist rhetoric to defang republicans.

Republicans are going to republican. Democrats at least have the pretense of representing their constituents interests.

It’s like if an oil tanker that takes ten miles to stop was bearing down on a small passenger ferry. Sure it might be the fault of the tanker’s crew but they can’t stop and they won’t stop. The democrats driving the ferry have the capacity to easily save everyone on board and simply refuse to do so. That’s why people shout at them.

Anyone that uses the term “Tankie” unironically to refer to people to the left of them and the Democratic party are not a part of the left.

It’s always helpful to identify the liberals that are getting “scratched” though.

If centrists wanted criticism of republicans, they could have done that more.

But then they might not have got the endorsement of dick cheney. establishment democrats punched left and embraced the right.

Really…? I feel like all the tankie (tanky?) discourse I’ve personally seen has only had vile hatred to say about trump. (namely hexbear)

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Current US: a neoliberal capitalist nightmare being ruined by CEOs

Your most intelligent American: This is definitely the socialists’ fault

I’m punching to the right, it’s not my fault the Dems are always standing there 🤷

yeah the like 10 tankies in the US really threw that election…? The takes from people on lemmy are so fucking strange.