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Turns out tankies don't care about Muslims when there are boots that need licking (media.kbin.social)
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[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you’re anti-capitalist, Republicans and Democrats are the same. And they criticize both, but…

I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice

Martin Luther King, Jr.

[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I realize their perspective is purely economic issues. However, it completely overlooks the vast difference on social issues and the fact that MAGA wants to institute a more harsh form of capitalism, plus theocratic dictatorship. Seems like a worthy distinction to me. Plus, that doesn’t explain why they’re so hot to criticize people like Biden and Elizabeth Warren or Hillary Clinton but don’t say jack shit about the various Trump supporting clowns prominent in US politics.

Yes, thanks for the MLK quote but not sure why you thought I needed to read that again right now.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don’t need you to read it, I need you to understand it. MLK was writing about people like Biden, Hillary and Warren, who are more concerned with rules and order than justice. Trump and MAGA are the KKK. We know what they are.

[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, the socially liberal lite socialists are the problem, not the conservative MAGA ghouls that want to enslave women and children… smh 🤦‍♀️

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The problem is liberals attacking tankies, who they need to work with to counter the fascism of Trump and conservatives. I want liberals and leftists to work together, but some are so hellbent on purity tests that they fail to see the big picture. Anarchists and Marxists Leninists should know that to ultimately defeat fascism, you have to dismantle capitalism.