I remember some people on Twitter being mad when at the end of the game, the game told them that they were fascists. It's funny to me because unless you were playing a total piece of shit, you always came out as a communist in this game.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

He's so me

[–] daggermoon 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can someone please explain the joke?

[–] PugJesus 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Just a bit of absurdism. Modern-day leftists often fight over the legacy of Marx, who was hugely influential; the joke here is that "IF MARX WAS HERE TODAY HE'D-" and instead of "be 'x' ideology" it's "Enjoy a well-regarded classic game"

[–] daggermoon 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ah, thank you stranger. I feel kind of dumb now lol.

[–] PugJesus 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No worries! Sometimes memes seem like they might have some more subtle joke to them, but no, in this case it's just being silly.

[–] daggermoon 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I also tend to over think shit. Sometime a cigar is just a cigar.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

a cigar is just a cigar

I have never heard this saying before, what the fuck could a cigar be? Did someone think it was a worm? a stick? a bomb??

[–] daggermoon 2 points 1 day ago

It's a quote often attributed to Sigmund Freud. I don't believe he ever actually said it though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I want your psycho, your vertical schtick (hey)

When you're in Morrowind, oh, baby, that's sick

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

what's the original lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

this is the og

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

idts. the “morrowind” text has a font weight far thicker than the rest, and the morrowind book covers something in the background that peaks out a bit at its top left

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

dude

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

[+] finitebanjo -18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

[–] PugJesus 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Referencing Marx is any fashion is tankie behavior?

[+] finitebanjo -24 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Just consider it a warning for everyone here, is all. Praising Marx unprompted is definitely leaning into dangerous territory.

[–] PugJesus 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You may need to get out more. Marx is the father of modern sociology, a debt even Max Weber acknowledged. "Marx wasn't all bad" isn't a hot take outside of anywhere that doesn't hang a tattered, non-code compliant American flag from the front porch.

[+] finitebanjo -13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

It's not that everyone who appreciates Marx is wrong, no no no, it's just a nearly universal belief among all of the worst examples of human beings which are unfortunately swarming all over lemmy in an attempt to radicalize people.

So avoid that shit whenever possible.

[–] PugJesus 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Surrendering Marx because shitheads use him as an aesthetic is like surrendering the American flag because shitheads use it as an aesthetic. All you do in doing so is lending power to your enemies for no good goddamn reason. Even less justified, really, since Marx has pretty clearly stated inclinations, while the US flag is far more abstract.

Especially silly when half of the tankies on here haven't read enough Marx to fill a thimble, and regularly and blatantly contradict him.

[+] finitebanjo -12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If this were a sociology, philosophy, history, or similar academic community then sure...

but not making Marxist memes is the easiest fucking thing you can possibly do. Are you planning to tell me I'm being unfair to chastise you because you accidentally tripped, opened your laptop, and photo-edited this meme so it's not really your fault for picking the subject matter?

[–] PugJesus 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No. I'm telling you that surrendering symbols to the opposition just means that the opposition then benefits from that symbol. Fuck that. It's both cowardly and stupid. I'm not going to puss out of reposting memes with Marx just because some ML fucks think workers' democracy is for squares.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What's your point? This meme is tankie because tankies like Marx? Makes no sense. This meme even has the original political statement removed from it as the main joke and you're talking about how it's tankie?

[–] finitebanjo -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If I were accusing the meme of being Tankie I wouldn't post a warning at all, I would just report it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean, if the meme's not tankie then you shouldn't need to give a warning at all...

[–] finitebanjo 0 points 1 day ago

Not even Tankies admit to being Tankies, you have to read the signs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would urge you to block lemmy.ml if you think they're swarming. It's pretty much only there, I blocked .ml and omg it's been so nice here now

[–] finitebanjo 1 points 1 day ago

That would prevent me from downvoting their posts but still allow them to show up in comments all over.

[–] Stamau123 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Marxism /= Marxist-leninism

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

≠*

[–] finitebanjo -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But

Marxist-leninism = Marxism

So better to stay away from it.

[–] SkyezOpen 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ironically that statement is not controversial on .ml because they want it to be true.

[–] finitebanjo 0 points 1 day ago

Marxism might not be Marxist-leninism, but you'd be ignorant to think Marxist-leninism isn't Marxism. Marxist-leninists praise Marx, end of story.

[–] swag_money 7 points 2 days ago

Marx kinda based ngl

[–] TotallynotJessica 9 points 2 days ago

Calling any mention of Marx "tankie behavior" is fairly close to Nazi behavior, ngl. You need to grow an ounce of critical thinking from this experience, or you'll turn into a loser who hangs out with fascists instead of punks.

[–] Aeri 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't know what a tankie is and at this point I'm afraid to ask.

[–] PugJesus 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A tankie is an authoritarian communist, the kind of folks who play apologist for the Soviet and Chinese regimes running over protesters with tanks. Hence the name.

[–] Aeri 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

cool not me then

I took a test once and it told me I was a filthy socialist.

It is my core belief that corporations need to be hit with big sticks regularly to keep them in check

[–] PugJesus 12 points 2 days ago

Well, a lot of us here would put it more along the lines of "Corporations need to be run by workers, not investors", but I think you're pretty safe from tankieism with that view.

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