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[-] toxiczombie@lemm.ee 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ok. I'm new here. What's a tankie

Edit: tysm everyone for the answers

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

Just avoid the Tankie Triad (.ml, hex and grad) and you'll be fine

[-] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think hexbear.net is expired, so hexbear straight up isn't an option atm.

EDIT: it's back up, as cm0002 pointed out.

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Nah the domain admin (unfortunately) eventually showed up and reclaimed it before the auction could complete. It's been restored and they actually added additional admins to the domain console this time :(

[-] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago

I stand corrected. Comment edited.

[-] nestle@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

Corpo speak for communist originally, but now just used for most left-leaning people. Sucks though because I used it endearingly and now it's used for center-left people who are far from communist :(

[-] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 day ago

People who are obsessed with tanks

[-] jia_tan 9 points 1 day ago

No you’re thinking of Acoustic people

[-] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Hey that’s… accurate but fuck your for calling me out

[-] jia_tan 2 points 1 day ago
[-] veroxii@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago
[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago

Panzer IV my beloved

[-] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

I blame Red Alert 2. Love me some comically large tanks with multiple barrels and missile racks.

[-] toxiczombie@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago
[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 day ago

Derogatory term accusing someone of being a communist/Marxist.

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

No, it's specifically authoritarian communists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof.

[-] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

The term is used outside that scope frequently.

[-] belluck@lemm.ee 14 points 1 day ago

More specifically, Stalinist/Maoist/any-other-„communist“-tyrant-ist. It refers specifically to people who excuse/deny tyranny and oppression caused by anyone who calls themselves communist.

[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago

As I said, communists/Marxists. Marx was an "authoritarian" socialist, and by far the largest strain of Marxism in the world is "Stalinism," aka Marxism-Leninism, the second largest probably being Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.

And, as I said, it's derogatory, which suggests the people saying it view such strains of thought as "tyrannical." So no part of your correction was at all necessary.

[-] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 24 points 2 days ago

People that Stan authoritarian countries. The term comes from when the USSR crushed liberation movements with tanks in the Republics and many western communists approved of the crushing. People who love China, Russia, Assad’s Syria, etc are tankies.

[-] toxiczombie@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago

Makes sense. Tyvm

[-] Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 days ago

these days it's just Blue Team's version of "woke"

[-] toxiczombie@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago

Yeah, suck it blue! I mean red! I mean blue! Ugh!

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