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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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[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

My additions:

  • “Sealioning”
  • That’s all a bunch of lies, you’re just blindly linking to a mouthpiece for US imperialism like Washington Post / BBC / Wikipedia
  • Links to rt.com
  • The answers you seek are in this 90 minute YouTube video
  • You’ve unwittingly EXACTLY PROVEN MY POINT (refuses to elaborate)

I am sure there are more

Edit: More

  • (this comment has been removed by the moderator)
  • If Russia isn’t fantastic how are they winning so hard in Ukraine
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

(Comment Removed by Mod) made me LOL

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

The Gish Gallop is often used, although you've kind of covered it with point 2 and 3.