Sigh ok. First I'm not a tankie or transphobe. I also don't believe in ideology but that it's just used as a mask by those who pursue power the the best at that game don't care about anything but power.

But I'm talking about polarization on Lemmy (and Reddit), and how people are massively downvoted when they question the "official western doctrine". For example like 2 days after the election in Venezuela Blinkin pretty much declared the opposition the winner and Maduro a cheater. All the western media and the US and Europe all agree and sanctioned Venezuela harshly for years now. Yet ANY questioning of this is met with massive downvotes.

On this topic at least you can at least mention the history of imperialist interference, the 2002 coup, the fact that Venezuela has the biggest oil reserves, that the opposition is ultra-far right and that the crippling sanctions amount to economic warfare. Personally I'm skeptical and am waiting for more independent information. But you still immediately get labeled a tankie.

That is the polarization I mean and has nothing to do with enlightened centrism or transphobia. Since Trump the fascists have managed to fortify these camps and suppress any discourse.

This is also extremism and the majority of the "normal Lemming" (~liberals leftist) are totally on board with this. If the majority decides something is this way, anyone else must be an enemy. Objective truth doesn't exist, everything has two sides to it, and since opinions rule might makes right.

And I can tell you pretty much exactly at what point in time this started to happen: 2022 with the Invasion of Ukraine. In one moment the reputation of the US was rehabilitated and is no seen as a guardian of truth, justice, democracy and the policeman of the world again. It's a fucking joke. It doesn't matter who rules in the white house, the US foreign policy is apolitical and it's domination has horrible effects on the world with use of terrorism and crippling sanctions that and destroy democracies in their cribs.

Now the tankies have a very narrow minded definition of liberalism = liberal = fascism = tool of capitalism. I don't share that but they are not wrong in terms of foreign policy. Biden does not give a fuck about "shithole countries" either. They are all doing whatever is needed to gain or maintain power. There is no ideology. Their definition also more and more fits what I see on Lemmy.

So yeah I can identify with the OP meme just "tryna be a human". Maybe we should let Venezuelans sort out Venezuela and not interfere with acts of war (=sanctions). But who knows? I could be lying! Maybe I'm really just a tankie! Or a transphobe! They are everywhere sneaking about! Maybe I'm one of those advanced chinese bots?! Bots are hiding everywhere in your comment section! (EDIT: And yeah unfortunately that is true to an unknown extend)

Basically you can't have a free and open democracy or community if you are "under siege". And social media is under siege and has become "militarized". Sad thing is don't know either what to do or what is real or not. I know it's only going to get worse from here on out.

So @mindbleach@sh.itjust.works, tell me what I am? Fascist, limbrol, centroid or tankie?