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[-] Guitarguru2001@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Short answer: folk who are so pro-Communist that they think the Tiananmen Square massacre was a good thing. The massacre in which the CCP bulldozed protestors with tanks.

Hence, "tankie"

Edit: apparently I'm wrong on the origin of the term, and it predates Tiananmen Square. See the reply below.

I will add that given the current projection of power currently, China is a far more powerful authoritarian communiststate than Russia, so most tankie propaganda is China-centric these days.

[-] HollandJim@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Oh wow. So like, extreme right wing and the fucking Republicans. Fuck all those people.

[-] Greenskye@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Wrong spectrum. Both Republicans and Tankies are authoritarian, which is why they feel similar (especially because current republicans are barely even conservative and have mostly gone all in on the authoritarian part).

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