I don’t think “tankies” voted for trump tbf. More so just abstained.
I am more mad at tiktok teens. They basically mass-advertised trump, and after elections there was a trend of calling ICE on your non-american neighbors.
Abstaining was still a +1 for fascism, though. Like skipping the vote in 1933 German elections saying, “all sides same lol”
Though yes I agree there were many factions who helped enable the present fascist to go first past the post.
A vote for Joe Biden in the 2020 primaries was a vote for fascism. We tried to warn you he wasn’t the guy for the job. 🤷♂️
I very much dislike Biden but I wasn’t worried about being shoved in an internment camp or getting LiveLeak’d by paramilitary goons for the crime of voicing an opinion or melanin during those years.
How are you not making the connection that Trump back in office is a direct result of Joe Biden’s [lack of] leadership when it was desperately needed?
It’s apparent. I think the left while more principled than the right doesn’t think strategically like the right. The right shows up consistently for their agenda of hate and disenfranchisement. Meanwhile, we are willing to let it all go to hell if it means having to suffer someone we don’t agree with 95%+ because then they’re just as bad as the other person.
The right shows up because they have funding from billionaires that allows them to be bussed in to the capital en masse, get legal funds covered, influencers get paid to spread fascism all over social media. The left doesn’t have the funding in the west like the fascist billionaires give to the right.
A vote for Joe Biden in the 2020 primaries was a vote for fascism.
My only hope is that one day when you’re an adult you look back at this comment and realize how fucking stupid it was.
It’s ok. Kids are dumb and make mistakes. They say the darndest things.
It’s so weird that the left has been put into two very odd boxes, “libs” and “tankies”. I see so much, valid IMO, hate for both them here but also the only ones ever mentioned. It feels like the American conservatives actually managed to succeed at doing something, and very well so, with this as I really doubt this would have happened naturally. It’s really fucked up, and I’m a random Swede and this shit has soured even our own forums, online and IRL discussions etc.
Wait I thought liberals were on board with capitalism? In what sense are they left wing?
