• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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      Oh yeah, that’s me. I’m totally a Tankie and not just someone who’s watching cops beat up students.

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        I know calling people tankie is about as meaningful as calling them woke these days but this one at least made me chuckle. At this point tankie is said by anyone when there’s something to the left of them they don’t agree with.

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          Tankie seems to refer to people who support Russia and China, regardless of what they think about domestic economics.

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            That’s literally what Harm Reduction is. You’re supposedly participating in the thing that you’re mocking.

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              wait lmao this is so funny 😂😂😂

              you went on an agressive harrassment and bitchslapping spree only to find out (hopefully by this point) that you didn’t even understand what was being said by your fabled ‘opponent’

              hope you can learn from this buddy, super embarrassing look lol

              edit: explanation that helped others

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                I stand by exactly what I said, Harm Reduction is often used to describe voting for the least harmful candidate. I honestly go through Lemmy expecting to see CCP propaganda telling Americans to off each other, these days. I think the term has probably been too muddied to be correctly used in any context at this point.

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                  imagine being so self absorbed that you think you get to decide when common terms for common practices are “too muddied”

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                    More of an observation than a decision. There’s a lot of upvotes and downvotes in both directions, though clearly more downvotes because the majority of comments on a post like this are going to be people who agree with the post’s message.

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                Ok fair enough, you’ve got a point. It’s not necessarily support of right wing extremism.

                In the current political climate, it is probably support for right wing extremism.

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                  No, Jesus no. The Overton window is so far right anyone who’s taking a “centrist” position is probably a right winger in denial. If I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard “I’m not conservative but (endless right wing talking points)” I’d be loaded.

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                  Yes, I’m starting to recognize some of the handles lol. And lo, that’s why I stopped engaging :D thanks though!

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                Last panel of the comic: “the other side is worse”

                Comic is clearly criticizing this take.

                Anyone criticizing the tactics of choosing the lesser of two evils is tacitly supporting right wing extremism. See also: don’t vote, vote 3rd party, etc etc

                FiniteBanjo’s comment refers to this as “encouraging us to elect an actual dictator with your both sides revelations”. Ie, encouraging us to enable a Trump victory by claiming that Biden and Trump are just as bad, in a bid to convince leftists to not vote for Biden.

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                  Last panel of the comic: “the other side is worse”

                  I took it more like the cop saying “this is harm reduction – I could be doing worse, so in reality I’m saving people.”

                  I definitely didn’t see that as a critique on centrism, no matter how deserved such a critique is

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                  I see where you are coming from but I looked at it the other way, where implying that voting for trump will make it worse. Also I don’t see how criticizing centrists has anything to do with right wing extremism.

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                    Criticizing centrism is a well known GOP tactic to suppress the Leftist vote and divide the Democratic party.

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                  Last panel of the comic: “the other side is worse”

                  yep just adding my two cents that this is not the reading i had at all. you may be quite significantly misreading the author’s intent here.

                  it’s literally just “we (the cops) are not killing you, be grateful for your persecution”

                  edit: explanation that helped others

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              provably not true, or at least not universally so. perfect example: r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM criticizes centrism, and states and adheres to the rule that it is a “Leftist space”