There is a spectre haunting the lemmyverse
It’s lemmygrad, we’re the spectre. I’d bet at least half of the other instances out there block us, there’s only like 300 dedicated users on this instance, and they still can’t stop complaining about lemmygrad/tankies
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Its crazy to see all the complaining about tankies, but I hardly see any complaining about exploding heads. Some people supporting Russia over the US is a big deal, but actual fascists passing laws in the US is barely a passing thought. Hating a foreign government more than home grown fascists is an american past time at this point. Shows where the "centrists" and "free speech advocates" sympathies lie.
Tbf exploding heads is defederated even more extensively than we are, and are much smaller instance than us, a lot of them probably aren’t even aware of exploding heads
Most western liberals are primarily focused on social issues because of the media narrative centering those issues as the dividing line. The American two party duopoly does not want people thinking about actual economic policies to help the working class, it would make the masses realize they are much more alike than either sides ruling class
foreign policy is practically identical between the two parties as well.
well, Democrats hate Russia more and Republicans hate China more. Still very similar.
This sub is a bit buggered in that those several year old naive-sounding posts keep popping up on people's feeds when they browse hot and active.
This is making a lot more sense now. I thought this emoji 🤯 was a dog whistle for something and felt too daft to ask.
Oh are people using that emoji to refer to exploding heads?
No, I k don't think so. I didn't realise exploding heads was an instance. So I thought you were talking about the emoji.
Oh I see what you mean now
What is exploding heads?
Nazi free speech absolutist instance
Lemmygrad: 😴
Lemmy: "tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie"
For real
Good.
Lemmygrad is already acknowledged by all other instances to be itself a power.
They know that when the fade passes away, we will still be here, strong. :)
I had an irl conversation the other day which hammered this point home. Westoids cannot psychologically handle being called out on being wrong, not knowing something, and on being prejudiced. That and all the other material reasons we know and discuss regularly mean that this instance, no matter how small, is a thorn in their eye, a spectre haunting their dreams.
Especially the prejudice, it’s always that we need to save Chinese people from their government, it’s always some extension of the white man’s burden couched in softer language
It really is treated as a "sin" to be ignorant of something in the west. Personally, I love not knowing something, because it means I get to learn something, but again, education in the west is treated as "that thing that happens when you're 6-18 and no other time." and refuse to ever try to educate themselves as adults.
Yea. I've learned to not believe everything I hear anymore. It takes time to look into whether something is true for me nowadays.
Calling people "westoids" makes you sound like a fucking idiot, just BTW.
Well I'm reading this on .world so it is not blocked there. I think these days people like to put others in boxes to make it easier to have us vs them.
Personally I only block spammers and abusive accounts. I consider myself socialist too if that matters.
Yes, we aren’t blocked by 2 of the biggest instances. I didn’t mean “half the users”, but every time I see a new instance in a username I go check their blocklist and it seems like ~1/2 the time lemmygrad is blocked. You would be welcome to post here even if you weren’t a socialist, you just can’t post capitalism apologia
No need to worry about that 😉. Capitalism has done enough damage already.
There are quite a few socialists over at .world. And some others who aren't socialists but willing to talk in good faith. It's nice to see you and them over here.
Thanks for the kind words. Hope your day is going well 😊
I've been theoryposting on .world and it's getting upvotes https://lemmy.world/post/2012172, we love to see it
300? We must have ADHD cus we active as hell and I barely participate
Per the sidebar right now it's just 150 per day, 350 a week, and 669 per month.
I think we're preeeetty active for our numbers.
I meant like people who regularly post or comment, we have way more lurkers than 300
Yes 💁
Some ppl in this comment section be like:
I love how the Spector seems to imply an evil in the heads of most Normans. I see it in my friends group and I will admit I had heard the line in the past and thought the same. Then I decided to actually read instead of parrot and realized it's a Spector in the same literary sense as the Spectors from A Christmas Carol that haunt Ebenezer Scrooge.
The Spector of Communism exposes the world to the material realities of it's past and present, which lay the stones that lead to the grim shadows of a future yet to come. Shadows, dear reader, that we might change by leading an altered life.
I still prefer the idea of it being a frightful hobgoblin.
A mischievous little elf who steals power from the capitalists and places it in the hands of the proletariat. The frightful part only applies to capitalists though, because they slowly realize they are losing their grip. Once the hobgoblin was worked it's mischief, the power that the bourgeoisie once possessed cannot be regained because the workers of the world realize that they actually had the power all along and that frightful hobgoblin merely lifted the veil that had deceived them into thinking otherwise.
Reminds me of https://existentialcomics.com/comic/148
“A spectre is haunting the Young Hegelians: the spectre of my glorious beard.” “I thought we agreed not to do the spectre thing anymore”
Edit: Fixed typo
Shaving is indeed a problem.
Communism will win!
Sure
Just remember that internet is a mean, not the end
Dont worry about me comrade, I have been active in the real world since the 90s
Long live tankies!!
This is why I made my own instance, when the large instances defederate from one another they are effectively censoring and controlling what you see. In most cases, that means banning any sort of marxist discussion.
And all their users don't realise that the reason those censoring instances look more like Reddit is because Reddit had a campaign to censor all radical speech. It's not rare because radical speech isn't popular, it's rare because it's hidden and crushed.
Would you talk me briefly through setting up your own instance? Do you just run it when you want to go online or do you need to stay connected with a 24/7 self-hosted server? Don't answer these questions if it means sharing details that would compromise your security.
Yeah, reminds me of posting in r/socialism101. Got a bunch of responses in from communists but my being able to see them and associated notifications were very delayed, indicating Reddit gave some kind of hidden shadow ban on their posts and the mods were manually approving them.
Late ass reply, sorry! I just now have finished tweaking my config to my liking.
I purchased a VPS and a domain name - I run it 24/7 on that server. The VPS is about $10 a month. If Lemmy optimized its db queries a little bit I bet I could get away with hosting it on a $5 a month server, though.
On that server, I'm running the Lemmy Docker container. There are some docs here: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/install_docker.html The docs are a little light on the env variable configuration though... there were some settings I had to hunt to find.
I am using Caddy as a reverse proxy: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/caddy.html
Caddy takes care of https automagically with Let's Encrypt.
All in all, it is a pretty simple setup. I don't know the security profile of Lemmy so I don't host anything worthwhile on this server in case it gets compromised, just Lemmy.
if you ever take a stab at it, I'd be happy to help answer questions. I am not sure if there is a dedicated community somewhere in the Fediverse for Lemmy selfhosting discussion.
OooooOOOooooOoooOOo spooooky!
Tankies are the greatest! 😎
I thought it was Wisconcom.
That would be a spectre haunting lemmygrad, comrade, although that gives way too much weight to him tbh
He's more like a smelly fart, an occasional nuissance
Yes exactly lol
funny.. i had Lemmy.ml bookmarked in a browser i rarely use and it says it's an online place for leftists. couldn't be further from the truth these days
It suffered due to being the lemmy instance run by the creators of Lemmy. The admins seem to be annoyed with it being overrun by reddit shit-libs now.
Aren't the lemmy.ml admins MLs too though? Or was that proven false? Either way, I don't tend to see commie stuff on that instance bc it's bigger and doesn't cater to us tankies like this one does.
Pretty sure they are, but don't mean for the instance to be.
I thought they were, at least most conversations I personally see on lemmy.ml are at least pretty cool it
They are. Developers of lemmy are as well.
I haven't heard of you yet, what are they complaining about? I've only heard complaints about Nazis and fascists
Can’t tell if this is supposed to be a “tankie red fash lol” dig but I’ll take it in good faith anyways.
We uphold socialism here, not that socialist states are/were perfect places, but that they are/were legitimate attempts at building worker states, and demonstrably improved the lives of their citizens. Liberals (we use that to mean anyone from a nordic soc dem to moderate republican, or even unserious anarchists) really really don’t like this. The accuse us of “genocide denial” or just being “delusional” for questioning the dominant western narrative
It doesn't help that there really is nuance in discussing previous and current socialist experiments but even that has practically become a meme and is met with "communism has never worked" commentary from liberals.
Exactly, often times we just give up because liberals constantly make bad faith arguments, so we just respond with goofy “stalin did nothing wrong” memes
I'm actually working through some thoughts on how to even explain that there is bad and good in these systems. But unless you have a good understanding of history, theory, or even dialectics(which I don't quite yet) it's really tough to do without resorting to whataboitism. At least for me it is. A common point that I see brought up on the left, and I think it's a good argument, but when the black book of communism number of 1 gorbillian dead get brought up, you can easily argue that you can calculate 100 million excessive deaths every 10 years in the US as a counterpoint but I think we can all agree that excessive deaths are bad regardless. Well unless they are fascists of course.
This was one of the hardest parts of my transition to socialism, finding good information that didn't require a doctorates degree in history and/or philosophy. The S4A podcast has been running for years and is just now getting to the end of their "introduction to Marxism" series.... Like, you can't expect most people to do this...
After buying a number of books I am making my way through them and they are fascinating. But it did require me to self-investigate and open my mind a lot, and read a lot, to decide to study further.
The nuance is so strong and so many people have been taught bad information that it's hard to even begin a good conversation, so we resort to jokes because at least we can get a laugh out of it. I've dumped walls of text, and gotten some good results, some bad results.
I've been on the lookout for short/easy introductions that aren't in-your-face-about-it (Worked for me, but not for everyone). There's no reason to pander unnecessarily, but to provide reasoned arguments in short-form, to plant the seed of information that could bring someone out of their propaganda. I guess the biggest problem is just getting past the initial ichy feeling most people have when the word "communism" is thrown out.
I think for me it started with just anti-capitalism, and US military actions that were obviously against our "core values". But that's not enough for everyone.
I am also working on a short list that I can recommend so once I am at home and can type them up we can compare notes maybe lol. I'm trying to find books that aren't super dense but still cover all that needs to be to get the point across. For example, I had an easier time with Principles than I did with the Manifesto because Principles reads a lot like it was written recently. Still read the Manifesto tho, ya know?
I've found myself also starting to attempt to explain things in simple terms and idk where that even came from. Understanding how Marx developed his ideas for Marxism from a philosophical perspective is crucial I think but damm is it tough at times.
And yeah you can describe socialism or communism to quite a few people and not call it those words and they tend to jive with it but as soon as you drop the C or S word it's all over. I work closely with a local Dem club where I'm at(I know still liberals but a lot of them seem to mean well, and a few of them do knowy views) but a few weeks ago socialism got brought up and 2 of these older dudes started in on how "socialism has never worked" and without skipping a beat one said we need to go back to aggressively taxing the super rich. Same set of people want M4A, affordable healthcare and school and all the other stuff and I'm like yeah that's kind of socialism my dudes. And again, their is even nuance to what actually is socialism in that context but you get it.
Don’t be defensive. Don’t defend communism or any state with socialism. Only defend the instances where it works. Like Cuba’s 99% literacy vs. America’s 82%. Be offensive. Criticize capitalism and it’s wealth disparity. Homelessness and access to medical care. Encourage them to research it on their own. Be courteous. Be respectful. Don’t condescend. We all have to start somewhere.
US capitalism isn't working, so there's that as a counter point lol
Oh, US capitalism is working exactly as intended. They just lie about what was intended.
I think you'll fit right in here.
Thank you for taking it in good faith, it's not meant as a dig, I appreciate the responses
It's an instance for Communists, specifically Communists who support AES (actually existing socialism). In short, we think that the USSR and PRC (among others), while not perfect, were legitimate attempts at building Socialism and better than Capitalism as it exists in the West.
Other people don't like that because, to them, Stalin was just Red Hitler and Xi Jinping is literally committing a genocide right now. Neither are true.
I don't know if the user jonathan12345 in the rest of this thread reflects the rest of this community, but they're basically putting words in my mouth and disagreeing with things I'm not even saying. I'm anti capitalism, but that kind of behavior definitely makes me think this isn't a place I want to be a part of.
Lemmygrad is a space for Communists who support AES. If you do not support China, you're probably correct that this instance is not for you.
But I think you'll find it's a fine place to engage as long as you keep questions about the legitimacy of past and present Socialist experiments to the ![email protected] comm.
The fact of the matter is that, while China does have billionaires, it is not an Oligarchy in the same way the United States or Russia is because these people do not hold the power in society. In China, the Communist Party does; and while you might say that the CPC overvalues its own bureaucracy and the so-called "Labor Aristocracy", it still more-or-less represents Working Class values. There are laws in place that mandate certain proportions of Communist Party membership and leadership come from certain positions and industries specifically to avoid it becoming beholden to the very-rich.
I'm not pro China, but that doesn't mean I'm not open to learning about why you are pro China. Your response is constructive and brings to the table things I didn't know and can now further research. From the perspective of someone who works for a US corp that does business with China, and who has co workers from China, workers best interests aren't being protected at any reasonable level like they are in say Germany. But I also am aware that even though my working conditions are fine, the awful working conditions for other jobs in the US (some from the same company I work for) are covered up and hidden from the public eye as well
Calling Stalin just red Hitler kind of softens what an absolute monster he was.
I know that’s the US narrative, but I’m not so sure that’s based in fact.
Ah okay I can see how that's controversial, given China is heavy on censorship and control, and in reality they're just another form of capitalism run by a rich oligarchy. Plus with the way the world has changed, I think a new system is needed because we're heading towards enough automation that not everyone should need to work.
I don't know much about the USSR so I won't comment on that
China is not run by a rich ogliarchy. source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIOg_K6Z1fg
I approve of the source, however disagree with the conclusions
Ok but in all honestly, just because there are rich people in China doesn't mean it's a 'capitalist ogliarchy'. Sure, there are billionaires in the party, but they have just as much power as any farmer or worker, no more and no less.
That's not true in the slightest though? I mean the very fact that there are different wages, there's poverty, China invests heavily in foreign companies (both the government and private Chinese corporations), that's all capitalism. The farmer doesn't have any say in what tencent or the China Evergrande Group does. The CCP controls the media and limits free speech, and makes decisions for everyone. Even if you're to somehow convince me that the people who control the CCP aren't rich oligarchs, they're absolutely still in control of the CCP, and it's not communism.
Oh my god there are companies, guess there's no more socialism guys!1!1!!1
Just because there are companies does not mean that China is revisionist. And Tencent and China Evergrande have nothing to do with the government. Why would they?
edit: What do different wages have to do with socialism? Also it's CPC, not CCP.
In my country like three completely unnacountable megacorporations control the media and limit free speech. The CPC at least gives a shit about public health and safety
I don't remember being consulted on the decision to invade Iraq, continue the illegal blockade of Cuba, send missiles to Nazis in Ukraine, make food twice as expensive, have the sky turn blood red from fire every couple years, be watched by police snipers at a football game, live in an endless pandemic, or drink microplastics for the rest of my life.
Good.
That's our power.
Most of them unironically think that we are worse than Nazis!
I’m old, I’m not even sure that Marxist Leninism is the correct course. But it’s framework can/should be used for what is needed. That’s why I don’t discount “tankies.” We need every leftist for change. The people yelling tankie are scared. I grew up during the Cold War. I was pumped with red scare propaganda from birth. That’s difficult to counter. They know capitalism is failing, but there scared for what comes after. They think they want social democracy. Our job is to explain coherently why that won’t work long term. Keep seeking your truth, their arguments are frail and fearful. Don’t engage with individuals. Speak to the group in the thread instead. Btw: Does anyone have any good YouTube channels that discuss dialectic materialism in a fun way?
Depends on what is fun of course, but Second Thought has some nice and easily digestible videos. Hakim is also a good option I think. There could be one or two from HasanAbi that deal with the subject, but his content varies a lot regarding topics.
Thanks
Awww did my post make the little fascist cry
<- I believe this is a portrait of you
The nazis lost to the USSR, you should follow your leader scumbag
What did he say? It’s not in the modlog
Click the fediverse logo to view it on the original instance - it wasn't removed there
removed.
How did you stumble across here anyways? You nazis don’t normally leave your den of pedophila, 4chan
(Remember, if you want to do your part in making the world a better place, all you have to do is follow your leader! )
Nope
Sure, this instance defines itself as pro-Marxism/pro-socialism, and there is a serious conversation to be had about the pros and cons of different systems of economy. I struggle to understand, however, why people on this instance are so pro-Russia today, where Russia now is so blatantly a capitalist kleptocracy. This undermines any perception that people on this instance are approaching this in good faith, and gives the impression lemmygrad is the product of Russian troll farms.
As to why this small instance gathers so much attention within Lemmy, it keeps showing up in my "All" feed, that probably has something to do with it 👾
because it's a bad faith argument that we're "pro-Russia", we are anti-Nato. Sometimes we're sloppy with our language in here because we expect other comrades to engage with us in good faith and not assume that we are pro Russian. The United States is the great Satan, and any country that opposes it is our temporary ally.
We are not "Pro-Russia", this is a bad faith label that is used to smear us. We SUPPORT Russia in the current conflict against Nato and the west. Which is what any principled anti-imperialist would do.
So just to wrap my head around this, the anti-imperialists are the ones who have invaded a sovereign country twice in 8 years?
The anti imperialists are the ones preventing the expansion of the organization that attacked Iraq, took part in several conflicts in former Yugoslavia, invaded Afghanistan, attacked Iraq again and then Libya.
All while expanding to 15 countries in the last 30 years. That is the imperialism we are opposing.
So the anti-imperialists are the ones who invaded twice and annexed Chechnya, rolled tanks into Georgia, invaded Luhansk, Donetsk and Crimea in a blatant land grab, levelled Syrian cities (which is ongoing btw) and used chemical weapons on civilians, aggressively pursued Russian interests in Mali, Libya and Sudan with the Wagner group, and started a full scale invasion of Ukraine which is ongoing… and they’re the good guys?
It’s wild that you can look at them and say yeah, russia are the good guys in this whole thing lol. There’s a reason why countries want to be in NATO in 2023 and that reason is Russia.
You did not just compare Russia preventing a Jihadist breakaway state from forming in their country to the US destroying Iraq for made up reasons and creating the catalyst for all modern Islamist terrorism, Jesus fucking Christ.
Just casually sweeping the soviet invasion of Afghanistan under the rug 👏
More ahistorical nonsense.
They asked the Soviets to help them...kinda like how the people of the Donbass also asked Russia to help them.
Is that the measure? Then you must agree that the US, after (at a minimum) it's genocidal invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, can never be trusted on matters of foreign policy again, right?
Absolutely not, that’s ridiculous. I’m not automatically pro-russian (and therefore pro-genocide) because the US is supplying arms to Ukraine. I’m not pro-US either by any measure and never have been.
In this current war, that Russia started twice (!), I am pro-Ukraine. That the US is supplying arms to Ukraine is not only something I can live with, it’s something I fully support
Russia is getting US funding?
🗣️ IMPERIALISM DOESNT MEAN "ONE COUNTRY INVADES ANOTHER PLEASE GET THAT THROUGH YOUR HEAD"
Aight I googled it because learning is fun
Sounds like it fits mate
Lmao, you probably think the soviets pushing into Nazi Germany on the eastern front is Russian "imperialism" too, since a military entered a foreign country. Read a book.
Not at all dude. Russia defended its land in an existential war against a fascism in way not dissimilar to what Ukraine is doing right now. I suppose the question is why does Russia 41-45 have the right to defend their sovereignty while Ukraine 2014-present does not? Don’t forget that the Soviets benefitted massively from US and British arms and equipment much like Ukraine today.
Do yourself a favor and see what happened in 2014.
I'll give you a hint. It was a coup.
Okay then can you tell me how Russia is extending it's power and influence when it isn't colonizing Ukraine?
Why didn't Russia invade it's other neighbors if it's sOoOoOo imperialist? There are easier targets than what was one of the larger armies in Europe?
Crimea ticks every box of being a colony lol
And errrrmmmmm RUSSIA DID INVADE ITS NEIGHBOURS! And regularly does!
You guys are fucking psychos haha
Ukraine is fighting an existential war against a country that NATO was formed to defend against. Are you seriously suggesting that not defending your territory from a very literal and an extensively documented attempt at genocide is the only valid option in your world view? Because holy fuck guy.
Ah yes those imperialist interests in Latvia, Estonia and North Macedonia. I’m not reading Lenin dude. After an hour with you lot I’m worried it’ll turn me into a fucking moron lol
That's a great way of saying "idk what my opponent really means"
You never read anything that doesn't already support your existing world view? Yikes, that...explains a lot.
How can you even begin to argue against something that you refuse to even understand to begin with?
I would say critically reading things you disagree with is even more important than reading things you already agree with.
Lmao "genocide" I am begging liberals to realize that words mean things.
The Russian Federation did intervene in Ukraine's attempted genocide of ethnic russians in the Donbas though, which makes your cute little strawman up there particularly ironic
If words mean things, liberals can't use them to say everyone they don't like is a bad guy, and what's more, with actual definitions, we'd quickly find that the west fits these definitions far more than any of their enemies. So naturally, words shouldn't mean anything except "bad thing me no like."
Yeah words mean things, such as the Genocide Convention definition of the word.
Y’all are wild human beings lol
Anti-imperialists that support the country trying to revive their imperial past.
You would prefer that we support the biggest imperialist organization on earth?
If you are supporting Russia in 2023, you are pro-imperialist
This is not an opinion
That is in fact an opinion, and an unfounded one at that.
Imperialism isn't invading another country. Words mean things. Imperialism as a term has meaning, imperialism as a socio-economic paradigm has specific characteristics.
https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Imperialism
The alternative is to allow Nato to expand, so yes, I support Russia, and that doesn't make me pro imperialist in the slightest.
Their understanding of Imperialism is just "A country invading
another countrya neighbour." No nuance, and deliberate manipulation to try and paint all the strongarming and gunboat diplomacy the west does, including outright invasions as "not imperialism"Their analysis has the same amount of thought involved as pointing and grunting.
Luk røven din klaphat
Det er sjovt at se dansk her.
One of those empires is worse than the other.
That's the whole problem. In western circles, it's socially unacceptable to say one word in favour of Russia. If you do, you're branded as succumbing to russian propaganda or a bot. Because nobody reasonable would support Russia.
There was an article posted here recently that was written by one of you. He served as the assistant general secretary for the UN. Not a troll, educated, and has no reason to support Russia (just like we don't). Also "escaped East Germany". He wrote this:
https://www.meer.com/en/74782-will-the-ukraine-war-be-the-undoing-for-the-european-union
It's something that could well have been written by people here, aside from the swipes at the Soviet Union. I strongly suggest you check it out, if you actually wish to understand our viewpoint. It was written with liberals in mind as the target audience.
I don't speak for everyone here, but the prevailing attitude I see from most communists I associate with is not one of overt support for Russia. I have occasionally seen misguided nostalgia for the USSR, which the Russian Federation is not, but it isn't common.
Not supporting the US via a proxy war, or NATO, or Ukraine does NOT mean supporting Russia. A common misconception liberals have is everything must be black and white, us vs them. If you don't support X you must support Y. In their minds, everything must be a simple "good guy vs bad guy" dichotomy. That simply isn't true. When two imperialist capitalist countries are at war, we should only strive to encourage a peaceful resolution as soon as possible for the sake of the actual people affected ((EDIT: Just to clarify since I realized I might be unclear here, I am speaking in generalities. I don't think this particular invasion has imperialist undertones, there are many more other underpining reasons it started). Supporting NATO would only serve to escalate and prolong their suffering. If they truly cared for anyone in Ukraine, they would not have repeatedly blocked attempts at signing peace agreements.
We understand a lot of the underlying justifications for the war and the provocations that led to it, but again that does necessitate cheerleading for Russia either. It just means we know that Putin did not wake up one morning and randomly decide to invade Ukraine for fun.
Nobody is pro-Putin. We are anti-NATO. That's a very different thing.
I figured this would be something you would identify with:
https://www.bustle.com/life/what-does-main-character-energy-on-tiktok-mean
Socialism will win
Capitalism is strained thin by globalization. It has no where else to go/grow. Which is why China is focusing on Africa. It may reinvent itself, it has done it before, but the ball is rolling. Climate change is the Boss that capitalism can’t beat. Socialism will be necessary to adapt to climate. It’s only a matter of time.
I think you are confused. The fact that you can't disambiguate your own main character fetish for yourself doesn't mean the rest of us have to pretend you or I are important.
I… don’t think I’m important. I made a low effort post on comradeship, where these posts belong. Still, the United States and the rest of the west has shown itself unable to contain China and are slowly collapsing, which gives me some joy as an unwilling participant in this genocidal empire
Then you don't understand what I am saying comrade. Your op is the same as the pick me energy on tick tock.
What are you saying then? I’m not exaggerating when I say that anytime I go into the all section I find a post/comment complaining about the “tankies” here. So I just made this jokey low effort comradeship post, there is literally nothing “main character” about that
"oooo look how edgy and cool we are. I bet most the other groups despise us! Our thoughts are so special that nobody else understands us. I know that because they call us names!"
That's your post. That is what you look like. That's main character energy.
Edit: I understand all the downvotes I am getting... But I'm not wrong. Just because you don't like being called out on it doesn't make this any less pick me energy.
Do you realize you’re being the exact type of user we’re complaining about?
It’s just an observation to say that there’s a lot of anti communist posts on other instances, and there’s a decent amount of these people (including yourself) who come to our instance for whatever reason.