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What's your definition of tankie? (lemm.ee)
submitted 6 days ago by Irelephant@lemm.ee to c/tankiejerk@lemmy.world
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This is something I always get in arguments about, whenever I use the word tankie hexbear and grad users argue that its just a term for socialists.

I've always just used it to referr to authoritarian communists, i.e, people who unironically support modern russia, and/or oppose ukraine, and think nothing happened to the uyghurs.

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[-] remer@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Authoritarian left who think the end justifies the means. They’re willing to use extreme systematic violence to achieve a communist society.

this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2025
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