In b4 I'm called a tankie
85Nothing tankie about this. Do conservatives just use it as a kind of slur because they heard progressives using it?
95It's (basically) used to describe communists that still support authoritarian regimes such as the ussr, China, and north korea
55Yeah, basically
21I've not really heard conservatives use it, mostly lefties who want to distance themselves as far as they can from it.
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Why do all the 40 year old boomer Lemmy users call anything to the left of the most moderate Democrat "tankie"?
28Millennial, thank you very much. And, no, as an Anarchist I can definitely say that tankies are to the right of me. By like twenty parsecs.
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Why would you be called a tankie? I don’t see any leftist authoritarianism here.
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Tankie: Cuts the legs off of tall people to not let them watch anything, party authorities take the cut off legs to step on.
69Naw, I don't see this as being tanky. The middle one I don't really get tho.
19the middle one explains that equity unlike equality does not give everyoune the same resources, but distributes resources so every one has the same experience/chance.
86It's the difference between equality of opportunity and equality of outcome. Even given the same opportunity some have no chance of reaching the desired outcome. So you create a system that provides supports that brings all to the same outcome.
28Sounds like a very, very fast way to disincentivize anyone working any harder, smarter, or taking any more risks than anyone else.
I get there are HUGE problems with unregulated capitalism, but what you describe (equalizing everyone's outcomes) also comes with catastrophic consequences.
There's just not a good clean answer -- it's a fuckin rats nest and difficult to untangle. But we certainly shouldn't stop trying. Some things have got to change.
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It means that people are given different amounts of resources to receive the same quality of life. Because not everyone's circumstances are the same, everyone needs different amounts of resources to maintain an equal quality of life.
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15That's a pretty flawed way of describing equality, it's almost like the original image was made in bad faith
Equality: the state of being equal, especially in status, rights, or opportunities.
11It's almost like the original image is trying to describe equity and not equality.
16That’s the way some people think of equality, and contrasted with what equity looks like, it demonstrates the flaw in that line of thinking.
Also, there is a version of this image where the fence is completely removed and the subtitle is “justice” or something like that, which is also a good contrast to both equality and equity.
4You might be right, but in political rhetoric equality is often used in bad faith. Because the right knows equality doesn't solve most of the problems it's aimed at.
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I didn't realize watching baseball is a right
6It isn't but damn do we need to enforce it with violence that you're not supposed to stand outside the stadium?
Furthermore... Couldn't it be? Local taxpayers literally build these stadiums.
4The Commons are a right. Doesn't matter that capitalists have attempted to do away with public property, by replacing it with private property, by illegally "purchasing" public property and natural resource rights for trillionths of pennies on the dollar, that's theft. Private property shouldn't exist without extreme regulations. Only public and personal property should exist with minimal regulations.
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The image cuts off the billionaire sitting on top of the large stack of boxes, with each hand resting on boxes stacked slightly higher on either side.
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