Which is sort of wild.

Marx was very clear that communism could not be delivered by heroes on horseback. But then again, Tankies don't like Marx, they like Lenin, the man who lost an election to actual communists and then had them all killed. He seized power via coup, and then made himself a king, and wrote how kings (vanguard parties) were somehow vital to communism, and how democracy was not.

Tankies are chicken-hawks.

They gladly let millions of marginalized peoples suffer and die for a pipedream that those people will fight a communist revolution... on the tankies' behalf.

Tankies won't ever be the ones on the front line. They spam fuck comment sections and try to convince as many people as possible to act against their own self interests, to put them in a desperate enough state that the tankoes can more easily manipulate them.

Tankies aren't communists, they're red fascists. Same abuser mentality as the fascists they so gleefully surrendered to in November 2024.

but be very careful of labelling people puritanical. Everybody draws lines that when crossed make the other person untrustworthy. This should be encouraged for a healthy democracy.

Excuse me, we're Chinese trolls, thanks very much; we are unhealthily obsessed with China because it's incredibly economically successful, it's the last hope of actual oldschool dictatorship of the worker socialism, and it's barely avoided being controlled by the market.

It's incredibly centralised, it's authoritarian, yes, but it's also building all the solar panels and executing billionaires when they get too powerful and making the imperial nations look like chumps, so you should forgive us for our infatuation.

My lack of action and lack of building local organisation? Guilty. I'm trying to correct this. China is not the model for the West, and even the Chinese govt says that, so as a true Chinahead I do not call for Chad Xi to come save us, that is missing the fucking point. We must grow our own socialist organisations to bypass the state, and anarchists and syndicalists might be the best idea for the West, with our individualism and love of freedom.

Why would you argue that we should stop doing our duties once we have cast our ballot and the candidate we support won?

Assuming they vote at all and don't think the best way to show your dissatisfaction is to stay home and complain on the Internet

They can't vote. They're either not American or they're bots.