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This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.

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Gunning for the title of most obnoxious online left-wing figure (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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90% of her twitter is complaining about tankies and the uyghurs and the authoritarianism

someone in the comments says "im cuban and castro was not a real communist"

retweeted something about how can china eradicate poverty when people in hong kong live in tiny homes

I dunno, if the person with the most similar political development on Youtube was freaking Shoe0nhead, that would probably make me want to rethink my beliefs.

Like, there's non-tankie leftists online like hbomb, philosophytube, big joel, the chapos, contrapoints, hasanabi, but they talk about actual fucking left-wing ideals, the injustices in the present day and what could be done to fix them. They don't turn their entire online presence into "im one of the good lefties, not like these evil tankies, im one of the good and reasonable ones"

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago

I remember getting into an argument with some people on here over here a year ago when she started her anti-tankie bullshit. Got told that I was doing purity testing but these types always expose themselves over time. Any goodwill she had from covering trans issues in the past is overrun with this and rubbing shoulders with people who barely tolerate her existence.

Anti-Tankie stuff is only trendy to a segment of the internet population that lives their life on it and consumes enough political content to give a shit. Her views barely break into the 100k range if she's lucky. Imagine failing at being an edge lord online.