lol why are you so afraid to just address what I said. Next pointless ramble and I’m out bud

The topic being what Dengism is and why those you label with it might reject your use of the label. I explained this in the previous comment, you can choose whether to engage with it or not but I don’t feel any urge to immediately respond to your various diversions.

I’ll be happy to discuss that after the topic at hand, though it seems you’re trying to avoid it.

It’s an insult to the Filipino Maoists to compare them to the ACP.

ACP are rejected by all communists. They are Strasseritr, reactionary, and a formation deviating even from the revisionist CPUSA. They’re basically right wing grifters and Lemmy liberals are falling for the grift, lacking political education and media literacy.

A communist organizes to overthrow the bourgeois state and class and establish a new order in its place. Historically the term has referred to revolutionary socialists, particularly Marxist-Leninists, who have by far had the most success in revolution. The aftermath of revolution has never practically been immediate transformation, but to enact major changes unacceptable in reformist contexts and defend the revolution and its process.

There are no “tenets” of communism outside this context. Maybe you’re referring to Marx’s conception of communism as a classless, stateless society? From each according to their ability, to each according to their need? This was always in the context of a historical process wherein there was first a dictatorship of the proletariat and the development of productive forces to even make communism possible. It is a prediction of what people will do when the bourgeois are no more, when they can demand more from life, over a long-running process.

By use, a tankie is anyone vaguely on the left that doesn’t fall for every US state department criticism of other countries.

Historically it was a left com / Trotskyist dismissive term referring to communists that justified the intervention in Hungary, with tanks, in 1956. But liberals don’t understand history or politics, nor are curious about them, and the only real content is to imply that the target is bad and not to be believed.

The “Darwinist” example is a good one because that’s generally not the term used in biology for what Young Earth Creationists think they’re doing by using the term dismissively. Evolutionary theory is much richer than Darwinism alone and within it there are disagreements among people, some calling certain views “Darwinist” in a way that is critical, seeing adaptation everywhere in evolutionary history even when it’s unjustified. Creationists just use it as a way to act like it’s a religious dogma, a camp, and therefore on equal footing with Young Earth Creationism rhetorically, and below it to their audience (who believe in creationism already). They typically don’t even know what the term means and can’t discuss the topics involved.

Pretty similar to this thread where terms are thrown around as insults, no understanding is evident, and simply inventing associations and alleged dogmas gets a free pass from those who have never investigated the topics whatsoever.

But “Dengism” isn’t even a thing among the left, there’s very little to it, it’s just reforms in the 80s and people argue over whether they were good or bad and how much. There are no socialist parties that organize themselves around “Dengism”, that’s like having an entire party centered on No Child Left Behind or something. Oh you’re a CLBer!?

Because Dengism isn’t anything other than a dismissive left com term for anyone on the left that doesn’t wholeheartedly dismiss the reforms under Deng.

Liberals have no idea what any of these words mean they just get the “and they’re bad” vibe from context. Like children playing with toys.

Name a “tankie” you’ve interacted with that supports ACP.

It trivializes genocide to compare actual genocide to war or really just other things that are far less.

This is not a difficult concept.

You won’t be able to find a single ACP supporter here. Go read more.

This article was designed specifically to show how gullible Lemmy libs are lmao. Imagine thinking the ACP is even on the left.

I would replace the derailleur since straightening any part of it that’s bent probably won’t work that well and buying replacement parts is probably as expensive as replacement if this is 10 speed or below. Can’t say anything about the chain without inspecting every link. Need a new derailleur hanger of course and for someone to ensure it’s straight.