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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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Seeing much more tankie from ml lately (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You forgot "great man theory" (i.e. any criticism of Putin or Xi) and "horseshoe theory" (i.e. any indication that left wing violence is bad).

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Meh, add to your block list with hexbear, you won't miss em.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

God, I'm just so genuinely happy to see someone use the word, "Tankie," properly. A shocking number of people on .world seem to think anyone left of Joe Biden is a Tankie.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The nickname tankies is pretty funny because tanks are becoming obsolete.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is the name meant to be related to war machines or the things you keep fish in? 🤔

[–] owsei 4 points 7 months ago

the war machines

it was something about who defended the USSR rolling tanks into a country to get it into the USSR or smth

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

It's always really sad to see otherwise good leftist ideals held back by ML campist brain rot tbh.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

It's much easier I find in .ml to just ignore the tankies tbh. Though the bingo sheet is admittedly, very funny.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

"USA bad" should be the free space, because anyone with as little as half a rotten brain can identify that it's true - The US is a shithole. That does preclude conservatives, of course.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The LW admins are violating their own ToS by allowing LML posts to get federated to LW.

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