#chexcastro

[mesetacadre]

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no.. please.... you have to believe me. I did not buy badges

[thomasthetankieengine]

Even if they're from, say, a Native American reservation, the Rio Grande Valley, the Mississippi Delta or other parts of the rural Deep South, or the Rust Belt where a great deal of people, the majority of whom are not White, live in serious poverty?

I know television and movies can give you the impression that all Americans live in penthouse apartments in NYC or Los Angeles or in pristine and large suburban homes, but here's the thing: those are fiction and it's extremely common for live action media to give their characters much larger homes or apartments than they can plausibly afford.

I'm not sure where chexcastro is from, but these days, travel isn't necessary; there are a lot of YouTube videos available that have people filming impoverished parts of the US. I have mixed feelings on these types of videos, but they do debunk chexcastro's apparent belief that everyone in the US lives in comfort and splendor.

[thomasthetankieengine]

Funny, I thought all tankies were subs, because they dream of being dominated by Stalin, Mao, Castro, Putin, Khamenei, Assad, and/or Maduro... 🤔

[mesetacadre]

cas do you have a fav communist pairing

Castro x that woman the CIA sent to assassinate him but ended up sleeping with him instead

[mesetacadre]

Who is your favorite geographer. not allowed to say yourself

reject great man theory. my fav geography current is critical geography, because of the influence marxism has on it

[mesetacadre]

🔥 vanguard parties

Admittedly this is less about the concept itself and more about how people perceive it. There is a (not very fine) line between the concept of politically leading the working mass towards a unified goal through unified will and being paternalistic or dismissive. this is kind of what my ranty post about loving your own class was about, you can't take vanguard to mean elite

[thomasthetankieengine]

Oh, chexcastro…. Nobody thinks you and the other Marxist-Leninist and Maoist bloggers are fans of any type of punk rock. Your nonpolitical posts are all about very modern video games and anime and shit, so why would everyone believe even for a second you'd deign to listen to rock music that was first made by members of your parents's or grandparents's generation?

So why do assholes like myself use the phrase "tankie punks fuck off" .... Well, here are the two reasons why I like to use the phrase (can't speak for anyone else)...

One, punk can be another word for a bratty child, which is definitely what chexcastro and the LARPing Maoists and Marxist-Leninists on this site all act like.

Two, it's to mock how they talk big and stan mass murderers and claim to want to help change the world, but seem incredibly uninterested in any type of volunteer work or any type of political engagement other than blogging and sometimes attending protests.

Theses line of "Nazi Punks Fuck Off" are particularly relevant to how I, personally, feel:

"You fight each other, the police state wins Stab your backs when you trash our halls Trash a bank if you've got real balls … You'll be the first to go, you'll be the first to go You'll be the first to go unless you think!"

I especially like those last two lines, as I firmly believe that that chexcastro and her ilk wouldn't survive more than a month in an actual Marxist-Leninist regime. Mind you, I wouldn't either, but at least I know that and don't fantasize that I'd be given any kind of top position if I'd lived in Russia in 1917 or China in 1949.

Anyway! Let's move on to a response post from maowives.

Yes, actually? What else would "Nazi punks fuck off" be a reference to?

It's kind of endearing, though, that she thinks she's dropping some deep truths here by saying that punk rock is music genre and not a revolution. I mean, obviously. The punks who didn't die of heroin overdoses or whatever are now in their sixties or seventies. This ain't a new take.

It's kind of a shame, tho, that none of the tankies seem to like punk rock. I think they might love The Clash's I'm So Bored With the U.S.A. if they actually listened to it:

[mesetacadre]

🍓 back!

Sadly I couldn't participate in much of the omegaverse polls, I sent you an ask about it but it probably got deleted. I think commie tumblr is lacking in these sorts of posts for fun, last week with your polls mixed with the pissing mao wife was a nice change of pace. what I mean is that your posts are entertaining and very unique in this space, at least on my dash :]