I keep hearing the term in political discourse, and rather than googling it, I’m asking the people who know better than Google.

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    You’ll hear a lot of shit, but I’ll humanise the tankies. OK. So you’re a human being and you see an imperialist power doing horrendous things in the name of capitalism, patriarchy, and racial dominance. That’s bad. So bad that you begin to think that anyone against that must inherently be good. You’re so committed to that ideal that you will justify, defend, or dismiss every evil that they commit in turn.

    You do see horrible shit happen in America, or in the world in America’s name. But oftentimes international conflict is just a few bad bitches racing to the bottom, and you have to be willing to stand by principles, not just “America bad.”

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      This is what happens when you refuse to actually engage with Marxism, or the points we make, then try to come up with your own reasoning for why we support who we do. I encourage you to actually try to understand communists in our own words.

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        I do engage with Marxism. I’m a Marxist. What I don’t do is dickride Lenin. Why don’t you go back to calling yourself your old made-up term, Marxist-Leninist. Funny how you drop the l in ml as soon as it conflicts with your ego.

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          Nice bit of homophobia there. I do call myself a Marxist-Leninist, in matters where I believe it’s more generally applicable to Marxism and not Marxism-Leninism I identify as such. Like, I’m not going to describe the law of value as a Marxist-Leninist thing, that’s something general to Marxists. I also have no idea what you mean by Marxism-Leninism being “made-up,” it’s by far the most historically and currently relevant branch of Marxism with by far the largest number of practicing communists worldwide.

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            Hey I don’t know your gender. Dickriding in my experience is a gender-neutral sport.

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              I display that I use he/they pronouns, and further using dickriding as an insult purely has roots in homophobia and misogny. It focuses on sexual shame in submission to someone with a dick.

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                  Are you allergic to making a coherent point? You’re narrowing in on the fact that I called out your homophobia, and are now doubling and tripling down on it, rather than returning to the other points I made. This is just shit-flinging.