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Tankie confusion (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Tankies supposedly oppose capitalism, and they only support anarchism when it's in the West.

The term is derived from those who sided with the tanks when the USSR rolled into towns and later when the CCP sent the military on their own citizens during an event that resulted in millions of deaths across their nation. You know, "communists" but without any power in the hands of the workers.