1w ago

Holy shit, three not me's

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I've never seen a socialist call an anarchist a liberal, and I've been both at various points. Also you forgot the liberal calling all 4 radicals and terrorists.
- You're not hanging out in campist spaces enough. I have been snarled at and banned from hexbear comms for "liberalism"
  
  Over the last ~10 years i have spent a shitload of my not-insignificant amount of free time in various far-left spaces on the internet, but I suppose I haven't seen every last crazy mofo out there. Also, calling an opinion 'liberalism' is different than calling an anarchist a liberal.
  
  I assure you when you're snarled at, it's "liberal"
  
  A lot of people got trolled by hexbear users when they migrated here from Reddit by posting pictures of pigshit and calling anyone mad about it a shitlib.
  Some are still angry, two years on.
  
  Ah, what a lovely bunch of human beings. Sorry on behalf of we leftists who aren't giant flaming assholes.
  
  Doesn't bother me at least. Online assholes are the default state, which means I just get to be happy when I interact with civil people.
- never been to lemmy.ml or hexbear?
  
  I have not, is that where all the leftists are on lemmy?
  
  Tankies. The .ml is short for Marxism-Leninism. Leftists for sure, but they get very nasty if you criticize China or voice anarchist thought, and will definitely call you a liberal for it.
  I'm generalizing of course, there's many different people there. But campism is definitely huge.
  lemmy.ml is the most popular one, there is also hexbear and lemmygrad.
  
  Nah .ml is part of the Tankie Triad, run by hardcore tankies who claim that they are the only "true leftists"
  If you want to see documentation of their words, actions and censoring checkout !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
- You must not have spent much time on .ml or hexbear.
  
  I have not, but I spent a shitload of time over the past ~10 years in numerous leftist spaces on Reddit and elsewhere. I suppose there's a chance the socialists on those instances are more cranky and less accurate than everywhere else on the internet, but I'm skeptical.
  
  Go make a comment skeptical of North Korean, Chinese, or Russian propaganda on either of those instances and you’ll be swarmed by the smoothest of brains.
  
  They are here particularly due to their "crankiness"
- The hammer and sickle is a tankie symbol. Tankies call everyone they disagree with a lib, which absolutely includes anarchists.
  
  The hammer and sickle is a socialist symbol, of which tankies are a tiny subset, if you're even using the word correctly (to mean people who unironically support everything authoritarian communist regimes do), which I doubt on the basis of your 'knowledge' of socialist symbols. Also I'm an anarchist, and while we have our disagreements, I've never been called a liberal by anyone on the left.
  
  The symbol originates from Soviet Union, and was adopted by other "socialist" regimes around the world, so I guess describing it as a 'symbol of authoritarian socialist regimes' would be more accurate idk
  
  It is also the symbol of many socialist movements, some of which has some pretty major issues with said socialist regimes around the world, so no, that wouldn't be more accurate. It's just a socialist symbol.
  
  lol ok buddy

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