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Positively bizarre to praise racist far-right theocrats
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this post was submitted on 29 May 2024
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I've seen 2 memes complaining about this and no examples of it. I'm perfectly willing to believe that it has happened - if there's a crazy thought, someone will spout it online.
But it doesn't seem either widespread or representative of the actual beliefs of real humans in the world.
I'm in the same boat and it's not the first time I've seen it happen (with other topics). Multiple memes about the thing, 0 of the thing..
I see it on Lemmy often enough to be annoyed by it. On Reddit, before I left for good, it was an article of faith in tankie-controlled subreddits.
So if it's just a tankie thing why are you accusing broader leftists of it?
It's not just a tankie thing, unless the usage of tankie has expanded since I last checked. Tankie-controlled subreddits were frequented by far more than just tankies. Furthermore, it's not all leftists, or even most leftists I'm accusing of this. My point is that it's bizarre when self-proclaimed leftists do praise the Houthis, precisely because the Houthis are a far-right theocracy.
I didn't realize Houthis being far-right theocrats was such a contentious point to you.
What else were you contending in my comment? That 'tankies' is a narrower term than 'all leftists'? Or that more than tankies frequented tankie-modded subs back on Reddit? Those seem even more unlikely, but if I was wrong, feel free to tell me which of those you were responding to.