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[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 0 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

I think saying Tankies aren't Communists is a bit like saying Sword Art Online isn't an anime.

Just because they suck doesn't remove them from the category. In fact acknowledging the sucky parts of a is part of being grown up about that thing.

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 10 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Communism is stateless and classless. How are STATES with authoritarian unanswerable leaders/classes in any way communist?

[–] kuato@lemmy.world 1 points 37 minutes ago

On the unlikely chance that the question isn’t rhetodical, I’d suggest Michael Parenti’s Blackshirts and Reds.

[–] shortrounddev@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 1 points 7 minutes ago* (last edited 2 minutes ago)

Its generic slop by anime standards. Like yeah anime is meant for teenagers and young adults so you can't be too critical over fanservice or flat YA novel Gary sue tier character writing or forgetting to write an actually compelling reason for the villain doing the bad thing at the start by the time the story wraps up. But you can at least try you know?

Anime in general is not meant to be high art but SAO goes the extra mile to be uninteresting bland slop that appeals to the lowest common denominator. The isekai genre has done a lot better over the decade since SAO initially released things like rezero or even Overlord blow it out of the water in terms of actually interesting plot and suspense. The only reason SAO is still popular is the high quality porn.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Well they're more like Authoritarian "Communists", the theory of communism doesn't require human rights violations and restrictions of freedoms.

But the only examples of communism in practice, and the only ones they praise and defend fervently, are places with authoritarian regimes like China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof. More specifically, the term has been applied to those who express support for one-party Marxist–Leninist socialist republics, whether contemporary or historical. It is commonly used by anti-authoritarian leftists, including anarchists, libertarian socialists, left communists, democratic socialists, and reformists to criticise Leninism, although the term has seen increasing use by liberal and right‐wing factions as well.

[–] shortrounddev@lemmy.world -3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

the theory of communism doesn’t require human rights violations and restrictions of freedoms

Communism is a political ideology predicated on murdering a group of political enemies in the name of a pseudoscientific economic theory which is given the same reverence that Catholics do to church dogma. Communism is, and always has been, a cult.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 2 points 25 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] shortrounddev@lemmy.world 1 points 9 minutes ago

Eloquent in your brevity