• Rottcodd@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    There’s undoubtedly at least a bit of projection there, but I think more what it is is just that tankies are driven almost entirely by righteous indignation, and they’ll take pretty much any chance they get to indulge in it. They don’t really stop and think about things - they just see something that could serve as a basis for a nice, satisfying righteously indignant screed and off they go.

    And that leaves them susceptible to, among other things, hypocrisy.

  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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    7 months ago

    I feel like solarpunk is definitely opposed to liberalism. I mean, it doesn’t enforce ideological purity the way tankies do so maybe that’s the source of the confusion? But it’s, at its heart, an anarchist movement.

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    7 months ago

    I get grim satisfaction from asserting my knowledge of theory against the smug liberals.

    That checks out. Now if only the tankies would have the collective spine to admit that their countries of choice are capitalist-flavored imperialism under the self-proclaimed veneer of communism.

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      7 months ago

      That requires them admitting communism doesn’t really exist in the modern world. Quite scary for them.

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        7 months ago

        It is religious or something with them. Paradise exists on Earth, for real, but they won’t travel there. Like ancient polytheists who didn’t bother to climb up Mount Olympus for a peek.