In light of recent events and confusion, I think we would all benefit from having a single, concise definition for the word tankie. Here are my suggestions:
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Someone who believes that violence has a proper use and that that use isn’t “getting bananas for my tum tum”
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Some dumbass Kremlin bot who thinks that Russia is a country rather than an actual duchy of hell
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A Neo-Shermanist
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A fascist in every way, except the ones that matter and also the other ones
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A hysterical CCP bot who lacks our sensible, rules-based policy of zero-tolerance for the Chinese
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A MAGAt who thinks that Drumpf was neither the beginning nor the end of our problems, and who thinks it’s funny - FUNNY, I SAY - that we’re so caught up on him
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A non-conservative who is mean to me about my opinions
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Mom, systematically repressing me with a fascist so-called bedtime 😡
I get called a tankie imperialist for being anti war. Maybe we can work that in somehow?
Tankie: the poster reading this
Tankie is when someone says something true
that I dismiss by simply saying “Tankieeeeeee”If the tank isn’t from the Budapest region of Hungary, then it’s not a tankie it’s a Armed Anti-Fascist Intervention.
My girlfriend from Canada. She goes to a different school. You wouldn’t know her. >.>
Die-hard Michael Dukakis supporters
Supported the USSR intervention in Hungary. Anything else is too nebulous and pointless. I’ve seen anarchists get call tankies for having Marxist economic views.
Um, there is one.
If that was still it’s main definition, we’d be hearing a lot less of it
The word has effectively lost all meaning starting with neolib youtubers posing as leftists ( think Vaush etc). I’m an anarchist and got called a tankie for debunking propaganda against 20th century socialist projects. I have my critiques of the communist projects and leaders of the 20th century but apparently if I don’t buy CIA propaganda that makes me a tankie.
Idk if I’m a tankie. I know a lot of the stuff we heard about USSR was lies in the form of propaganda, so I assume a lot of what we hear about China and North Korea is the same.
By the definition of a lot of lemmyverse libs you’re 100% a tankie
According to what I’ve seen, even entertaining doubt at the validity of unsourced claims by Western media and state departments makes you a tankie.
If you cite the cia on Soviet caloric intake you’re also a tankie
And if you cite the CIA on whether Stalin was an all-powerful dictator, you’re a super-tankie