I’m just curious for the new or existing people? Lemmy.ml has taken a hard turn to the right since the reddit exodus. There’s been a lot of pro-imperialist propaganda being posted on world news, and a lot less diversity of opinion. It feels more neoliberal and neo-con to me.
Does anyone want to share what their political leanings are?
I’ll start; I’m anti-imperialist pro-state regulated capitalism. I believe we should have usage based taxes (toll roads, carbon tax) and luxury taxes, and I disagree with wealth taxes for people with less than $250 million. The state should spend more money on consumer protection in all industries (environment, health, finance, etc.) I believe in multipolarity vs. US hegemony.
(Be kind, not trying to start a flame war) I keep seeing this thrown around, what is a “tankie” and what’s it got to do with that Lemmy instance?
Tankie is a pejorative label for communists : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
depending on who youre talking to it either means all communist or specifically communists who unabashedly support authoritarian scumbag governments
communists who unabashedly support authoritarian scumbag governments tend to frame it as exclusively an insult for communists in general, either out of a refusal to recognise any other branch of communism as actually communist, to pull attention away from their support of authoritarian scumbag governments or to frame whoever is calling them tankies as anti-communist, and probably a fascist
A great summary of what tankies are https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LcJ5NrJtQ8g