It sucks because I feel they'd make a good ally to compromise with if they weren't hoping to have me executed for not supporting an authoritarian seizure of power.

[–] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, i can't speak to your experience but I'm a commie who doesn't dig a forced central planning authority. Or death threats even!

For my part i get called a "traitor" and such by libs often, simply for criticizing the DNC et al.

But your point stands, no death threats.

[–] abraxas@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, i can’t speak to your experience but I’m a commie who doesn’t dig a forced central planning authority. Or death threats even!

Well that's a breath of fresh air. That's very different from what I've seen. I do have to point out what I said elsewhere, that I feel Communists have a responsibility to speak against violent communism, the same way "good cops" can only be good if they speak out against bad cops. (I know how most Communists feel about police, but at least I hope you can appreciate the intent of the parallel)

For my part i get called a “traitor” and such by libs often, simply for criticizing the DNC et al.

I think using the word "traitor" in a situation like that is terrible. I do take it personally if someone treats the DNC as "just as bad as Trump" after he managed to cause an unprecedented amount of devastation between his immigration policies, "pay me" COVID handling, and open hatred of marginalized groups and "great people on both sides" support for groups like the KKK... But as much as I am disappointed when people put even a moderate like Biden in the same boat as him, I wouldn't use the word "traitor".

But your point stands, no death threats.

I would love if I met more Communists who are more willing to have constructive conversation with the other Leftist groups, instead of the ones that group all of us in a wide-net neoliberal basket that includes everyone from Bernie Sanders to Adolf Hitler. So, thank you :)

[–] SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By the silent downvote I take it that you think getting so many death threats is normal and not possibly linked to being an extremely weird person who argues with perhaps even weirder people

[–] abraxas@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Which "silent downvote" are you talking about?

And how exactly did you conclude I'm a "weird person" in this scenario? Obviously I'm arguing with weirder people, we're talking about tankies.

EDIT: Just looked through your post history and cannot seem to find any I downvoted.

[–] rjs001@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Come off of it. You are not getting death threats from MLs. You just want to feel self-important

[–] SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you ever think maybe it's weird that you get many death threats? I think have ever had one in my life and I've conversed with many many mentally... unhealthy people

[–] abraxas@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm a Social Democrat, who used to be a Democratic Socialist. The Right sees me as a Communist and McCarthyism kicks in. Did you hear about the "Physical Removal" movement? A meme-like movement about giving the Left helicopter rides to the middle of the ocean. I lived in a farm town where 40% of the voters were overcompensating for the Right not being able to win a rural area by being very outspoken anti-left.

And then, the Left. When I considered myself to be a demsoc, I tried to hang out in LSC on reddit. Not sure if you know it, but they eventually got banned for all the death threats coming out of there. There is an attitude around some percent of Communists that non-Communist lives don't matter. They might be a minority, but they're outspoken.

That was what got me to realize the flaw in being a demsoc, and I shifted laterally (NOT to the Right as several people like to pretend) to Social Democrat. Then I got more death threats because Communists have a hard-on of insisting Socdems are literally the same category as fascists.

I DO think it's weird that I've gotten and get death threats over my views, and I understand why so many people my age have given up having any views at all and just become "I just vote a party and go about my day" folks that are part of the problem.