• PugJesus@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    My favorite is when tankies don’t have any other enemies, and you can watch them tear each other apart over whether LGBT people are people, or whether their ‘comrades’ in the developing world are right about Western degeneracy destroying their good, cis-straight cultures.

    It’s astounding to watch so many LGBT tankies sudden realize they would get the bullet in an instant, and immediately do nothing with that information.

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      1 year ago

      I really don’t understand why so many trans individuals state their alliance with tankies, when any government tankies support are totally fine with murdering them.

      They’re okay with ragging on the US’ problems against the LGBT+ community (and there are many such problems to rag on), but conveniently ignore things like gay and trans people being killed in droves in Chechnya.

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        Might be that the total subsumption of all issues to class means that LGBT people can feel more welcomed in tankie communities as individuals because tankie communities don’t regard the issue as of importance. Rather than feeling the sting of rejection in right-wing communities (and there are a terrifying number of right-wing LGBT folk) or the strong emphasis on LGBT community and culture in many left-leaning communities that may leave some feeling ‘out of the loop’ and depersonalized, even if that’s not the general feeling or the intent.

        Alternatively, LGBT people are just people, and people are often dumb. Whichever.

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      1 year ago

      seems it’s hard to stop having jello instead of a brain when you already have jello instead of a brain