wonderingwanderer

You’d be surprised. I read about a time when there was a power outage in moscow, and for the span of a few hours there were hardly any trolls active on reddit

I don’t save links to every comment I ever read, don’t be ridiculous.

My comment history has nothing to do with it. Admitting to stalking my profile doesn’t prove any point.

I know precisely what fascism is, and the dumbfuck tankies accusing Mamdani of it are absolutely wrong.

I said they’re the same in praxis, not ideology. You’d think a fucking leftist would understand the difference.

And your picture is kind of a strawman in this context, because I wasn’t using “horseshoe politics” to describe phenomena of the abolition era. I was using it to describe phenomena of the current era where the contexts are different. But since tankies are allergic to nuance, I don’t suppose you’ll be comprehend that and you’ll probably just resort to ad hominems.

Fuck off, tankie.

Eastern Orthodoxy is not an offshoot of Catholicism. They were both the same church until the schism, when they excommunicated each other.

The Pope traces his apostolic succession back to Peter, but the patriarchs of the Eastern Orthodox church trace theirs back to the other apostles. Originally, the various patriarchates were co-equal, until the Roman church began stylizing itself as the “first among equals” citing some obscure passage where Jesus had a bromance moment with Peter.

The Roman church was never in a position of authority over the other patriarchates, and when the Pope began trying to assert himself that way, the other churches began distancing themselves. The actual schism happened when that tension shattered over different interpretations of one line in the Nicean Creed.

If anything, the Roman Catholic church is an offshoot of Eastern Orthodoxy, which maintained its Ecumenical Council among the various patriarchates throughout its history.

Calling Eastern Orthodoxy an offshoot of Roman Catholicism is a very catholo-centric and misinformed take. And citing Canon Law is silly, because Rome strayed further from the original Canons than Eastern Orthodoxy ever did.

I guess the anarchists are all planning to grow their own vegetables, then? In… the middle of NYC…

I’ve seen tankies trying to call him fascist on lemmy, and I called them out and said how wrong they are. They responded by calling me a zionist and accusing me of supporting genocide…

These are not rational people arguing in good faith…

Is that a real headline? If so, that’s extremely dishonest journalism…

If you’re comparing shitting on tankies to McCarthyism, you might be a tankie.

Lots of people on the left hate tankies, because tankies are more fascist than leftist in praxis. McCarthyism basically accuses anyone with a remotely left-wing opinion as being as bad as a tankie, which is a strawman.

Tankies have more in common with McCarthyism than they’re willing to admit. That’s called horseshoe politics.

Tankies don’t like anyone, they’ll never be satisfied. I’m fairly certain most of them are russian trolls tasked with sowing discord and fracturing the left.

There’ve got to be laws against that, right?

I mean… you’re not wrong…

You forgot the part where I said “socialist.” I don’t want them to be heartless and scheming if they’re not doing it for socialist reforms.

It’s getting worse as they learn what they can get away with

I don’t speak Italian either, but I know enough Spanish (not much) to figure out what it says…

It was identified as something harmless.

Not immediately, and if it had contained a nerve agent it would have been too late to do anything about it by the time it was identified.

Generally, assaults on political leaders are considered something else.

Terrorism doesn’t exclude attacks on political leaders, especially when they’re in civilian settings such as a town hall.

Terrorism is the continued threat of future deadly violence, not of squirting vinegar on people.

A brazen attack with a syringe filled with mystery fluid in the middle of a town hall is intended to have a chilling effect on political speech and communication between representatives and their constituents. It’s supposed to send the message “this could happen again, to anyone,” and is intended to stifle political opposition. It’s an intimidation tactic, which when applied to political purposes fits the definition of terrorism.

I don’t think a lab test was required to figure out it was harmless. It was vinegar.

There’s no way to determine that’s all it was without lab testing.

Yeah, but it wasn’t.

That wasn’t immediately known at the time

If someone hit one of those ICE thugs with a black water balloon that was indeed filled with harmless water, would you support charging the thrower with terrorism?

There’s a difference between water balloons and a syringe filled with mystery fluid. Also, if someone were throwing water balloons at ICE, the current administration would definitely call them terrorists. The charges wouldn’t stick, but it’s completely different from mystery fluid-filled syringe.

No, it’s using violence to create fear of future violence.

It’s using violence or fear (i.e., the threat of violence) to achieve a political purpose. Stochastic terrorism doesn’t utilize direct violence, but the threat of violence is often enough to achieve its intended effect.

Just creating “fear of future violence” isn’t it. Extortion, blackmail, racketeering can all create fear of future violence, but they’re not terrorism unless they’re done for political purposes. Terrorism is using fear to achieve a political purpose, whether through violence or threats of violence. That’s not my “personal definition,” it’s what it is. You can look it up.

Man, I wish Democrats were the heartless, scheming, cut-throat, socialist maniacs that I was told they were growing up in a Republican household…

The country would be in much better shape if it were true…

Squirting an unidentifiable liquid in someone’s face is terrorism.

Until it’s tested in a lab, no one knows what it is. It could be a strong acid, it could be a nerve agent. Neither of those things are unheard of, and either one can maim or kill in a matter of minutes.

Using fear or violence to achieve a political purpose is the definition of terrorism. The attacker was attempting to disrupt the town hall and intimidate politicians in order to suppress political speech.

It’s literal terrorism.

This is their current Prime Minister…

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