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Whew!
The kmer Rouge thing is crazy, and I just had my first encounter with it in the wild.
Lately I've been feeling alienated from both liberals and the extreme "left".
The liberals boot lick two party politics and shill for corporations. "Don't let perfect be the enemy of good" while letting good enough be the enemy of better.
The tankies boot lick shitty individuals and put mere men on pedestals, murdering in the name of "progress".
Can't win I tell ya! 💁
Political ideology isn't a straight line spectrum though. At the extreme far left, you have people that oppose any form of authoritarian control, people that are in favor of absolute authoritarian control, and people that think that some authoritarian control is necessary for society to function. None of these views are inherently wrong per se, but people that are in favor of one flavor or another are going to see champions of there version as being above criticism. Tankies are generally in favor of state-control, and so they take criticisms of Lenin and Stalin as personal attacks on them.
I should have said tankies instead of extreme left tbh. I consider myself extreme left.