• stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pubEnglish
    86·
    11 months ago

    Can someone explain what a tankie is, I keep hearing it and getting called one but have no fucking clue what they’re on about

    Also, you could just make an account for the dark side of lemmy for defederated things and then use another for regular usage, no? I basically just switch between accounts through my reader app

    • FluffyPotato@lemm.eeEnglish
      231·
      11 months ago

      Someone who supports authoritarian regimes with socialist aesthetics. Originally coined when the soviet union rolled tanks into Hungary to squash their attempt at independence and there were people in Britain who liked that, those were the original tankies.

        • ArxCyberwolf@lemmy.caEnglish
          132·
          11 months ago

          Yeah. You can usually find them on any post remotely critical of China or Russia, where they show up enmasse to defend the genocides they commit because “Well America did it too so it’s okay to murder entire ethnicities” and dismiss any criticism of those countries as “Western propaganda” while simultaneously gobbling up CCP/Russian propaganda like it’s candy. They never argue in good faith, and get off on irritating people.