The DM was a DM asking us to change our no tankies policy and remove the fuck tankies banner as it was apparently upsetting hexbear users. Apparently tankies view the word tankie as a form of slur. The admin wants us to ally as a form of “left solidarity”

  • ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    It’s crazy to see a far left news source be used to try to convince people that the US has never been a democracy.

    We have always been a democracy and we thankfully still are a democracy. We are in danger of losing our democracy to fascism however. If we don’t fix the flaws in our democratic institutions we will end up in a fascist dictatorship.

    I am well aware we are circling the fascist drain. I also know that the modern neoliberalism movement started by Regan and Thatcher is how we got here.

    • iie [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      • 70% of Americans want singlepayer healthcare
      • 90% want universal background checks for firearm purchases
      • 75% want Citizen’s United repealed

      and yet these and other popular policies remain politically impossible

    • Grimble [he/him,they/them]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Ok, you know things. Cool. So why are you being so dodgy about hyperspecific political tendencies? Why is such a precarious, controlled, center-left (by ur standard) system like the US worth balancing?