“Have these gentlemen ever seen a revolution? A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the other part by means of rifles, bayonets and cannon”
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When you have to resort to attack your opponent by using their post history you know that either you lost or you dont have any real argument.
And they sometimes get called “tankies” too by people to the right of them. That’s why I both think it’s a useless term (if everybody is a tankie, then nobody is) and why I think I fall in the definition (as most leftists do, I’ve seen pretty mild social democrats being called “tankies” by liberals)
Plus ultimately these blanket descriptions are pretty useless IMO, you’ll find extremely heated debates between “tankies” themselves on many topics, there’s no consensus, and there are many different ideologies “tankies” subscribe to. It would be like saying that Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians and Greens are all the same thing. We could call them “dronies” maybe.
YES
Everybody to the left of biden is considered a tankie nowdays, and I’m proud of being to the left of (and opposed to) genocide enablers.
frippa@lemmy.mlto United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•President Biden announces a series of tariffs on green energy products from China.3·1 year agoAll those cars and solar panels that Chinese companies counted on selling in the US must go somewhere. Every other country in the world (excluding the EU, although to a lesser extent than the US) isn’t hell-bent on sanctioning China, their production will be just redirected elsewhere.
And since the US, biggest net importer in the world, just stopped… importing, there will be more goods sought after by less money, AKA more supply (old supply + goods that can’t profitably be sold in the US anymore) but less demand (since the US just passed these new tariffs) and as you know, this is gonna make prices fall, maybe not a drastic fall but still.
frippa@lemmy.mlto United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•President Biden announces a series of tariffs on green energy products from China.1·1 year agoCollcata verba sunt accuratius modulatiusque.
frippa@lemmy.mlto Work Reform@lemmy.world•What kind of institutional gaslighting is this?42·1 year ago“we have nothing to complain about, but we’ll still complain because fuck the poor, am I right?”
frippa@lemmy.mlto Memes@lemmy.ml•A few drinks in, and I immediately start talking about the inevitable collapse of humanity in the hands of capitalism.111·1 year agoThe fact that a worker who barely makes ends meet pays 10-20 times the taxes Amazon pays is… Fascinating in a dark way.
Similar to feudal peasants that used to pay up in the form of free labor and produce, while their noble overlords enjoyed massive privileges and zero taxes.
frippa@lemmy.mlto World News@lemmy.world•Iran launches dozens of drones toward IsraelEnglish41·1 year agoThey weren’t colonized that’s for sure, they were (mostly) Muslim Arabs in a country where being a Muslim/Arab was normal and didn’t imply you had less rights or straight up didn’t deserve life.
frippa@lemmy.mlto United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•Many FBI agents are struggling to make ends meet. Housing costs are to blame41·1 year agoCan’t even get a decent standard of living by selling your soul to Satan now huh
We should reject the dichotomy, between 99% Hitler and 100% Hitler we must choose to actually change things and not be passive in front of atrocities. No sympathy for either one of the two sadistic parties of war.
frippa@lemmy.mlto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•How disheartening for Snowden to do the right thing and be stranded in Russia.8·1 year agoHis plan A wasn’t even to escape to Russia, the EU and USA blocked the Ecuadorian plane who was trying to rescue him.
frippa@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is the largest amount of partners you saw in a cookies consent question ?12·1 year agoAround 2.000 no kidding
frippa@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.ml•Hong Kong Telecoms announces 50 Gbps fibre broadband to homes and enterprises – OCWorkbench71·1 year agoHalf the comments be like:
China has fast internet
But at what cost?
There are cases in which the status quo kills way more in the long term than a revolution would in the short term, I agree with you that a war, expecially a civil war fought expecially on national soil brings misery and destruction to the nation, but it is sometimes a necessary evil in the short term in order to avoid a way bigger evil in the long run. To make another Italian example, the fascist regime killed hundreds of thousands of people, 120.000 innocents died only in Lybia during the deportation of the cyrenaican people, that’s less than all of the deaths in the Italian Civil War!
didn’t say that all revolutions are bad. It’s usually a mixed bag, some good, some bad
I think we agree on this one, I thought you meant revolution was inherently evil. Better to clarify and argument further nevertheless, For posterity. Peace.
Dictatorship by a wide margin. Why should the parliament squabble over a law for months, possibly years, when under a dictatorship said law could be enacted instantly? Also with democracy every politician just thinks about getting elected, not the actual long-term needs of the country.