Tankies will never understand

King was murdered by that system at least partially for those beliefs.
And that was before the Reagan giveaway, the conversion of the Corporate party's former opposition party's conversion into bribe taking neoliberals, and the icing on the cake of hopelessness, Citizens United which effectively made political bribery legal. The power King was speaking against has gotten much more powerful since that power ended his life.
This system needs to be destroyed and a new one rebuilt in its place. We can suffer the pain of that, or the generationial pain of subsistence until inevitable collapse under the weight of our own market capitalist con game having nowhere left to metastasize. Pain either way, but I'm guessing we'll keep passing the buck because that's the path of least resistance.
- Yeah, they threatened and harassed Dr. King, but no one was taking a shot at him while he campaigned for civil rights. Once he started the Poor People's Campaign and sought to unite all races against economic injustice, they killed him for it. That, and his outspoken opposition to the Vietnam War.
  
  https://www.staugustine.com/story/news/2016/01/18/archive-story-attempt-kill-martin-luther-king-st-augustine/16320505007/
  Try not to belittle and ignore the hatred and violence the Civil Rights leaders faced simply for asking for equal treatment in your eager rush to claim victim status or whatever dumbassery made you think no one wanted to kill MLK purely on racial grounds.
- This system needs to be destroyed and a new one rebuilt in its place. We can suffer the pain of that, or the generationial pain of subsistence until inevitable collapse under the weight of its own market capitalist con game. Pain either way, but I'm guessing we'll keep passing the buck because that's the path of least resistance.
  Well said.
  
  "all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed." -TJ
  
  I must sound like a broken record to you, my friend 🤣
  It just helps me feel sane to lay out the same truths in the face of mass indolence.
- We can't suffer the pain of going full no-confidence and refusing to vote.
- This system needs to be destroyed and a new one rebuilt in its place
  How confident are you that what rises from the ashes of what what surely amount to WWIII (you don't think the rest of the world is going to watch on the sidelines while the U.S. is in a war over capitalism do you?) is the utopia you hope for and not warlords, nuclear disaster, or an even worse version of the U.S. with a different name?
  If we make it out of this shitty situation we're in it will be by culturally evolving beyond capitalism, away from systems based on mutual exploitation and towards systems based on mutual cooperation. Never in history has a violent revolution ended up with a stable, sustainable, and equitable society.
  Those willing to bet on violent revolution are extremely entitled. Why do you feel entitled to cause massive pain and suffering to others to attain your political goals?
  
  Why do you feel entitled to cause massive pain and suffering to others to attain your political goals?
  https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/u-s-homelessness-up-12-percent-to-highest-reported-level-as-rents-soar-and-pandemic-aid-lapses
  https://www.kff.org/mental-health/issue-brief/a-look-at-the-latest-suicide-data-and-change-over-the-last-decade/
  https://news.gallup.com/poll/505745/depression-rates-reach-new-highs.aspx
  Massive pain and suffering is upon us and worsening by the day, whether you would risk it or not.
  Is it just because you feel like you're in a relatively comfortable position that you think the above mass suffering is defensible? Because if this in fact a society, that suffering is our responsibility and shame upon our heads.
  
  Disco Elysium kind of plays with this idea
  
  Because the people we oppose are already committing mass violence on people. Evil people do not respond to peace, they only respond to violence. The only way to end their violence is using violence to ensure they can't do it.

TIL that an uncomfortably large number of people on Lemmy don't know what the fuck a Tankie is, but think they do.
- People on Lemmy call people opposing war and the military industrial complex Tankies.
  It can be uncanny the gambit the term runs here.
  
  Gotta imagine there's a lot going on to poison the well. Doesn't take much to cause in fighting around these parts.
- Tankie is almost always "socialist I don't like" or even "anyone to the left of Mussolini".

Poor MLK can't catch a break. Labelled a commie agitator for advocating black rights and saying things like "capitalism has outlived its usefulness", gets murdered for it, now liberals pretend that never happened try to paint him as their guy all along
- MLK was a commie ;)
- Capital has the ability to subsume all criticism of itself.
  
  As did absolute monarchies....

If MLK existed in current time, he would be called a tankie by most people on Lemmy.
His political ideas would be regarded as extremist, and the majority of the people here would not have supported him.
- What thoughts of his would make him a tankie?

I still don't get what tankie means...
Edit: None of those comments helped. Especially the guy who unironically used the word "centrist".
- “Leftists” who support authoritarianism and hierarchies.
  Its named after the Soviets sending tanks in to suppress people uprising in Hungary.
- The historic use of the word was to distinguish leftists who supported the Soviet Unions use of tanks to suppress a revolt in Budapest in 1956 from communists.
  EDIT: Now it more generally refers to anyone who believes in Actually Existing Socialism, or AES, and by extension denies the categorization of State Capitalism, the predominant mode of production in the world today where governments employ the majority of workers.
  
  Isn't it generally just all sort of authoritarian socialists or communists
- although the term has seen increasing use by liberals and right‐wing factions as well. Source.
- Top left of political compass.
- Per Urban dictionary. Centrists use it to slur socialists/communists.
  
  No.
  I’m as far left as they come, I hate tankies, authoritarian loving pieces of shit.
  
  Not all socialists/communists are tankies, they're the more extremist branch.

Real (adjusted for inflation) Household Median Income is up over 3x since this quote by MLK.
Even todays poor are extremely wealthy compared to the poor when this quote occurred.