Political Memes

Yeah, they threatened and harassed Dr. King, but no one was taking a shot at him while he campaigned for civil rights. Once he started the Poor People's Campaign and sought to unite all races against economic injustice, they killed him for it. That, and his outspoken opposition to the Vietnam War.

This system needs to be destroyed and a new one rebuilt in its place. We can suffer the pain of that, or the generationial pain of subsistence until inevitable collapse under the weight of its own market capitalist con game. Pain either way, but I'm guessing we'll keep passing the buck because that's the path of least resistance.

Well said.

We can't suffer the pain of going full no-confidence and refusing to vote.

People on Lemmy call people opposing war and the military industrial complex Tankies.

It can be uncanny the gambit the term runs here.

Tankie is almost always "socialist I don't like" or even "anyone to the left of Mussolini".

MLK was a commie ;)

Capital has the ability to subsume all criticism of itself.

What thoughts of his would make him a tankie?

“Leftists” who support authoritarianism and hierarchies.

Its named after the Soviets sending tanks in to suppress people uprising in Hungary.

The historic use of the word was to distinguish leftists who supported the Soviet Unions use of tanks to suppress a revolt in Budapest in 1956 from communists.

EDIT: Now it more generally refers to anyone who believes in Actually Existing Socialism, or AES, and by extension denies the categorization of State Capitalism, the predominant mode of production in the world today where governments employ the majority of workers.

although the term has seen increasing use by liberals and right‐wing factions as well. Source.