Question for tankies: when you're picking out your ideology, why don't you simply choose the lib-left part of the political compass instead of auth-left?

[–] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Only tankies get Xi bucks. I'm saving mine up for a life-size replica of Stalin's holodomer spoon.

[–] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 hours ago

I'm saving mine for a Stalin android that's Deepseek trained on all his works and historical acts and puts me over his knee and spanks me when I step into revisionism.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 49 points 18 hours ago

haven't you tankies learned that the auth-left is a trick? It's a bunch of fascists tricking you into thinking it's communism, but then they make a government that just does state capitalism, which is worse than normal capitalism. You're being fooled into believing you're far left, but actually, you're just the moderate wing of fascism.

Why can't you be more like social democrats, like Sweden or Denmark? Those ideologies aren't tricks by the capitalist elites to make you think you're further left than you actually are. Social democrats are the true far left, not fascists like you tankies. The social democrats are legitimate and that's why no social democratic country operates on imperialism.

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 42 points 18 hours ago

I tried but some of the questions on the survey were very trickily worded.

[–] Beetle@hexbear.net 8 points 13 hours ago

I like the colour red more than green

[–] SovietBeerTruckOperator@hexbear.net 21 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Define what "auth" means exactly? Does it mean any exercise in power? Cuz I think you need to do at least a little of that to achieve anything.

[–] piggy@hexbear.net 34 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

"auth" is the opposite of "lib" duh. There's a American Prestige where Daniel Bessener argues exactly this, that "authoritarianism" means nothing at worst and "not liberal" at best.

[–] Zuzak@hexbear.net 29 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

:::spoiler Tienimin Square.

This is a bit, if it wasn't clear.