Yeah, pretty much. I guess the speculative lore progression is:
Lemmy.ml developers become communist because they value human freedom and economic justice 👍️
Dessalines goes further than that into pro-China and pro-USSR because he’s young and like a lot of people has more idealism than sense and detailed knowledge, and attention-seeking iconoclasty is fun 🤔
Entire instances crop up full of people who love to “dunk on the libs” and be edgelords by posting pro-North Korea and pro-CCP content 😐
State actors join in to egg up the content and work to direct it subtly or unsubtly at the Democrats and NATO 🙁
Russian expats join in because they need a community and this is literally the only place that is accessible to them that will tell them that “their people” are anyone other than the villains ☹️ <- This comment thread is here
Groupthink intensifies, borders of the in-group solidify, anyone who questions the narrative get banned ☹️
“Hey guys can we have some of your money for Lemmy development” 🙄
I wouldn’t say this is due to simply being far-left. It may have started as such, but then they decided to subdue their political beliefs to geopolitics, and pursue geopolitical beliefs first and foremost. And those geopolitical beliefs favor a competition-minded worldview, a “might makes right” one, and a black’n’white perception. Tankies have just started being fanatic for one of the sides, almost being nationalists for another country, just like far-rightists.
An authoritarians only priority is their authority. Their economic leanings can flip on a dime depending on what’s convenient. So technically they are economically centrist by circumstance. But have never been meaningfully left in any sense.
Yeah, pretty much. I guess the speculative lore progression is:
You hit the nail on the head
they went so far left, they end up being on the right/autotharian.
I wouldn’t say this is due to simply being far-left. It may have started as such, but then they decided to subdue their political beliefs to geopolitics, and pursue geopolitical beliefs first and foremost. And those geopolitical beliefs favor a competition-minded worldview, a “might makes right” one, and a black’n’white perception. Tankies have just started being fanatic for one of the sides, almost being nationalists for another country, just like far-rightists.
An authoritarians only priority is their authority. Their economic leanings can flip on a dime depending on what’s convenient. So technically they are economically centrist by circumstance. But have never been meaningfully left in any sense.