In light of recent events and confusion, I think we would all benefit from having a single, concise definition for the word tankie. Here are my suggestions:
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Someone who believes that violence has a proper use and that that use isn’t “getting bananas for my tum tum”
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Some dumbass Kremlin bot who thinks that Russia is a country rather than an actual duchy of hell
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A Neo-Shermanist
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A fascist in every way, except the ones that matter and also the other ones
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A hysterical CCP bot who lacks our sensible, rules-based policy of zero-tolerance for the Chinese
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A MAGAt who thinks that Drumpf was neither the beginning nor the end of our problems, and who thinks it’s funny - FUNNY, I SAY - that we’re so caught up on him
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A non-conservative who is mean to me about my opinions
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Mom, systematically repressing me with a fascist so-called bedtime 😡
Idk if I’m a tankie. I know a lot of the stuff we heard about USSR was lies in the form of propaganda, so I assume a lot of what we hear about China and North Korea is the same.
You would be correct. Very much recommend the Blowback podcast, it’s a wild ride.
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By the definition of a lot of lemmyverse libs you’re 100% a tankie
According to what I’ve seen, even entertaining doubt at the validity of unsourced claims by Western media and state departments makes you a tankie.
If you cite the cia on Soviet caloric intake you’re also a tankie
And if you cite the CIA on whether Stalin was an all-powerful dictator, you’re a super-tankie
Die-hard Michael Dukakis supporters
This is the correct answer
I didn’t realize he was still alive. We should get him to do an ama
Tankie:
Filthy, STINKY, tankieses, we hates them!
Doesn’t it mean tank fetishist? Wait, what have y’all been talking about this whole time?
Tanktop master
Anyone who rejects me
Um, there is one.
If that was still it’s main definition, we’d be hearing a lot less of it
The word has effectively lost all meaning starting with neolib youtubers posing as leftists ( think Vaush etc). I’m an anarchist and got called a tankie for debunking propaganda against 20th century socialist projects. I have my critiques of the communist projects and leaders of the 20th century but apparently if I don’t buy CIA propaganda that makes me a tankie.
Before Vaush and after the uprising, it referred to larpers who think that the revolution could just happen tomorrow, and seemed a bit too eager to do violence.
Woah, didn’t know Lemmy was so full of British Social democrats from the 1950s that really care about Hungary.
Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Tankie: the poster reading this
I just like tanks. I think they are neat.
I get called a tankie imperialist for being anti war. Maybe we can work that in somehow?
a tankie is someone whose very
coolsorry I mean bad and totally not cool or based… Hungary had that shit coming. “Waaaahhh my pogroms, waaahhhh I can’t keep marking the homes of Jews and Communists for extermination! Waaah!”
isn’t it funnier if we don’t
If the tank isn’t from the Budapest region of Hungary, then it’s not a tankie it’s a Armed Anti-Fascist Intervention.
