They want to kill – Or rather, like classic rich college kids, they want others to kill for them. They will thankfully never do anything violent, all bark.
(Well, actually, watch out for them IRL on a smaller level. They very well may be violent, abusive people that will hurt you, or participate in SLA style politicial violence, it’s just that no “revolution” is ever going to happen.
And before someone says it, no I didn’t say they all are, just that they can be.)
My favorite is when I’m operating off the assumption that a specific tankie user is just a disillusioned member of the working poor, and then they make some casual comment outside of a political thread and reveal that they’re an able-bodied white cishet married homeowner with two incomes, both six-digits, and they’re lecturing others on privilege. Like, fucking what? I’m fucking sitting here counting my calories when I buy groceries so I don’t lose weight, I’m quite literally sitting under a leaky fucking roof with a bucket on the floor to stop it from soaking the carpet, I’m sitting here wondering if I should blow my fucking brains out if healthcare reform is rolled back in this country, I’m sitting here worried about non white-passing members of my family in a white nationalist fascist society, and these bougie (in the colloquial, not Communist, sense) fucks are telling me that my politics are coming from a position of privilege?!
Some of us actually have something to lose under a fascist regime, like our fucking lives, and these twats swear up and down that the suffering of Minorities and Poors™ are the gateway to the revolution. Other than having zero fucking evidence to back that up, considering the level of suffering inflicted on societies worse off than the West’s without even the murmurs of revolution, it’s real fucking easy to sacrifice someone else’s life for your goals - and of course, those goals being not utilitarian, but simply to achieve some sense of self-satisfaction at ‘opposing’ the ‘Imperial Core’ or whatever the fuck the buzzword of the week is.
They want to kill – Or rather, like classic rich college kids, they want others to kill for them. They will thankfully never do anything violent, all bark.
(Well, actually, watch out for them IRL on a smaller level. They very well may be violent, abusive people that will hurt you, or participate in SLA style politicial violence, it’s just that no “revolution” is ever going to happen.
And before someone says it, no I didn’t say they all are, just that they can be.)
I’ve seen what they look like. They’re not particularly strong men, really flimsy, actually. Riddled with anxiety and insecurity.
Usually. Every now and again they kill Marcus Foster.
My favorite is when I’m operating off the assumption that a specific tankie user is just a disillusioned member of the working poor, and then they make some casual comment outside of a political thread and reveal that they’re an able-bodied white cishet married homeowner with two incomes, both six-digits, and they’re lecturing others on privilege. Like, fucking what? I’m fucking sitting here counting my calories when I buy groceries so I don’t lose weight, I’m quite literally sitting under a leaky fucking roof with a bucket on the floor to stop it from soaking the carpet, I’m sitting here wondering if I should blow my fucking brains out if healthcare reform is rolled back in this country, I’m sitting here worried about non white-passing members of my family in a white nationalist fascist society, and these bougie (in the colloquial, not Communist, sense) fucks are telling me that my politics are coming from a position of privilege?!
Some of us actually have something to lose under a fascist regime, like our fucking lives, and these twats swear up and down that the suffering of Minorities and Poors™ are the gateway to the revolution. Other than having zero fucking evidence to back that up, considering the level of suffering inflicted on societies worse off than the West’s without even the murmurs of revolution, it’s real fucking easy to sacrifice someone else’s life for your goals - and of course, those goals being not utilitarian, but simply to achieve some sense of self-satisfaction at ‘opposing’ the ‘Imperial Core’ or whatever the fuck the buzzword of the week is.
It’s absolute insanity.
Thankfully they hold zero power and zero political sway in the real world