Message from @Farseer Selna Vesha
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Stalinists are only barely considered communists to begin with, in a token "left unity" way
lol
I'm center-left myself but all of my commie friends do think stalin is a monster equivalent to hitler
gods i'm feeling so nostalgic today
I don't know any unironic stalinists who are actually sane
tbh all stalinists I've encountered online are these weird pegging connoisseurs with anime avatars
Discord hard left is weirde
There is legitimate wars over anime
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I had some guys who argued that Stalin was a great guy and the USSR was fantastic
Usually tankies are the anti anime gang
but animu is capitalist!
We dislike anime here, but only ironically.
tankies = pro DPRK/stalin right?
Largely yes,
tankies?
DPRK though is less likely to be supported
Tankie is a derogatory term used by hard leftists to refer to stalinists
well yeah if you're going to ban all personal freedom then it makes sense to hate anime too
oh
but i'm a full on capitalist
yet i like animu
Where the ussr pushed tanks into 2 states
ah
Hence the nickname
well how important is the fact that it's used by lefties tho I've seen wokieleaks and even some right-wingers use it
Tankies
though mostly 70's to late 90's/early 2000's animu
Tankie?
Well it's fairly old and been around a while
yep
Regardless, the main ideology behind post Lenin ussr was known as Marxism Leninism (Lenin and marx didn't produce it, they were "honoured" by the developer of it, Stalin)
I'm trying to think if I ever watched an anime with Marxist themes. Maybe the Japanese artists don't even know it exists?
Japanese communists are actually quite influential
it would explain a few things
They were a major party a few decades back
besides, japan was mostly influenced by the US after ww2
So alot of Japanese shows and such have subtle leftist references
Japanese communist party are super peace and anti violence