Laughing so fucking hard at this 😭

“ACAB except when they’re brutalizing the people I want to see brutalized.”

Probably because saying it’s not a genocide is literally just a tankie talking point that got turned into “uhmmm acskually theyre just doing all these humans rights abuses that result in cultural erasure, death, SA, etc. that’s not TECHNICALLY genocide, somehow”

I mean, are you saying that the forced assimilation, reeducation camps, forced labor, forced sterilization, etc isn’t a genocide?

Yes. You are currently advocating for “minority report”-style pre-action.

I’m saying it sounds like the direct violent conflict between protestors and counter protestors seems to be pretty low, not much higher than any other rate of violent crime I would guess.

Most of the violence to my understanding was between protestors and police, who reportedly repeatedly used unnecessary force.

It seems like you’re trying to justify the suppression of protest and the killing of 5 people by the government because there were 2 counter protestor deaths.

If this were America, and we were communists protesting capitalist rule, and the police were mistreating us and we rose up in violence, would you condemn that? Would you condemn them attacking capitalist counter protestors? I don’t think you would, right? That’s hypocrisy.

I still disagree with you, there’s definitely some misfires and people misusing the term, but the majority of people who use the word know that it’s a pejorative for exclusively authoritarian communists, usually specifically those who would look the other way when their “socialist” government commits atrocities.

This is certainly an example of abhorrently violent behavior that I will assume is unjustified (I didn’t want to watch the video, I’m not desensitized to this stuff). And to clarify, this is supposed to justify ramping up violent response to protesters? Instead of searching for and arresting perpetrators who were caught on film?

It seems the violence described in the article is at least partially in response to a cop shooting a teenager? Got something else?

Who was being hurt by rioters?

English isn’t prescriptivist, it’s descriptivist. I’m sorry for assuming English was your first language.

A slur is like a more advanced pejorative that you shouldn’t say, usually because it targets people who can’t change whatever trait is being targetted. Tankie isn’t a slur, because I’m allowed to call you a tankie all day. Hope that helped!

Genuinely, do it

Whoa! Exactly!

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Okay, that was great and informative, but doesn’t disprove my point. Those people still identify as communist and that’s just as valid as your self identification as communist. The difference is still in the nature of it being authoritative, which is what gets you called tankie, not the communist bit. If you want to stop all communists from getting labeled as tankie, then stop identifying the two things as being interchangeable, especially when they aren’t interchangeable and the people using them are telling you exactly how they aren’t interchangeable.

I feel the need to get aggressive because I don’t need to hear this drivel you’re pushing. A slur bro? Everything is a slur now? Grow the fuck up.

Idk, maybe you should just use fucking google like an adult and understand that it is aimed at auth communists and that people using it to target nonauth communists is such an incredibly small number that it’s not even worth noting. The experience you are describing is within a vacuum of leftist infighting where liberals sometimes poke their head in to chime in with stupid fuck opinions. Obviously some stupid liberal fuck is going to see the criticism a genuine leftist levied at a genuine auth communist and not understand what the insult means.

By not brutalizing the protestors? What do you mean? I don’t have to have the correct answer to tell you that brutalizing people is the wrong answer?

😭😭 literally anyone who would call themself an anarchocommunist for starters. Let’s not play dumb, shall we?

No, again, you are intentionally trying to mislead readers into believing something false to be true. Not all communists are tankies, and whenever we call you tankies, it’s not because you’re communist.

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No matter how many times you compare antonyms nonsensically, it won’t change that eugenics is eugenics.

You conveniently worded it as “not breeding is a breeding program”, which is intellectually dishonest and dances around reality. Nice.

So no, “not breeding” is not a breeding program. Government mandated restrictions on who can breed and how much is a breeding program.

Try not to do that bullshit again, I’m not stupid, in fact it seems I’m a million times smarter than you if that’s the best you got. Why don’t you try being honest?