They are a tankie because they post in Hexbear, which is a tankie instance.
Hmmm, well this looks like it’s a lemmygrad post but point taken. Safe to assume they also have tankie views, especially since they self-selected into that group
The idea of making wild assumptions and disingenuous conversations with your neighbour for the sole purpose of asking a group of strangers how to convert him is fucking bizarre.
Idk man, we all make assumptions about people’s politics. True, he went in with the intention of ‘converting’ him, but seems like he made an earnest attempt to understand his neighbor’s (presumed) perspectives and spoke to those concerns. Certainly not the worst political interaction I’ve seen, especially on lemmmy. I don’t know if I see anything problematic with what he said he said specifically, though. I guess it would be strange to be so singularly focused on people’s political opinions, fair enough.
I also find it funny how a MAGA is a reactionary, but democrats are also reactionaries.
Maybe we just have different understandings of the word? Reactionary isn’t really a political label, so much as it is just a description of a particular kind of motivation behind political policy. Any political party can have a reactionary perspective if it’s motivated by opposing or reversing social change, and being anti-immigrant is, like, the original reactionary perspective, and it sounds like that was his neighbor’s main political opinion. Even the soviets had some reactionary policies, it’s not really a binary.
