Tankiejerk

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Dunking on Tankies from a leftist perspective.

A tankie is someone who defends/supports authoritarian or even totalitarian regimes who call themselves "socialist". The term originated from people supporting the 1956 invasion of Hungary by the Soviet Union. Nowadays they are just terminally online, denying genocides, and falling for totalitarian propaganda and calling such regimes "true democracies". remember to censor usernames when necessary.

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Fringe right and fringe left both make this conversation difficult (lemmy.myserv.one)

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An 8-panel Phoebe Teaching Joey meme.

The first panel is Phoebe from Friends saying "Russia".

The second panel is Joey from the same show replying with "Russia".

The third panel is Phoebe saying "has invaded".

The fourth panel is Joey repeating back "has invaded".

The fifth panel is Phoebe saying "Ukraine".

The sixth panel is Joey repeating back "Ukraine".

The seventh panel is Phoebe saying the completed phrase "Russia has invaded Ukraine".

The final panel shows Joey proudly proclaiming "NATO just started a proxy war".

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not "fringe left" or "fringe right" (not that that means anything consistent in the first place), it's just anyone dumb enough to incorporate "Russia are unequivocally good and the US going against them are unequivocally bad" into their thinking.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

not that that means anything consistent in the first place

Yeaaaaaaah... I wasn't sure what to use as the title. By the time I had captioned the meme, I realized it didn't exclusively describe tankies. It also describes Tucker Carlson's whole audience.

In hindsight, I probably could have said, "Tankies and far right." There did not need to be symmetry in my statement.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

No worries, everyone does it. Also didn't realize this was "/c/Tankiejerk".