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Police discover 80 Russian torture chambers in Ukraine
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It's like how the far right tries to gaslight everyone by trying to change the meaning of the word "nazi". E.g.
Tankies are doing the same with the word "tankie". Even "militant communists" aren't tankies -- unless they cheer on brutal oppression by authoritarian regimes.
i think it's relatively clear and obvious that there needs to be a word that describes regimes which systematically inflict violence upon their own civilians via mechanized artillery and the simps who support these regimes,
and that word is 'tankie'
now, if I had my way, it'd be a different word, which would have served the purpose of freeing up 'tankie' for another purpose (a pejorative for people who brainlessly and uncritically gobble up the bullshit of think-tanks) but that's not the world we live in. In this world, tankie refers to the scenario wherein,
Granted, the present usage of "tankie" also carries implications about a given regime's economic system (which is to imply that the regime's economic system is Centrally Planned) but frankly that's a stupid distinction to make when even capitalist regimes will do this to their own civilians too.
Ironically, the "Russian Speaking Civilians" that Russia claimed they were invading to "protect" have suffered greater casualties directly from Russian-fired munitions than they ever had before, so even though they are actually, in fact, UKRAINIAN civilians that they're murdering, taking them at their word about these victims being Russian civilians would literally make Russia's actions a tankie move.
By my more utilitarian definition of what constitutes tankie behavior, it also includes the actions of the previous Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko, who launched artillery strikes against the very same Ukrainian civilians back in 2014 (and subsequently had his ass kicked electorally by Zelenskyy on the basis that Zelenskyy was NOT going to be attacking civilians) so... it stopped being ukrainian policy by the time russia invaded. Russia stopped nothing, and on the contrary resumed needless civilian slaughter.
And there are some witless shitstains around the lemmy fediverse who unironically defend this abject fuckery.
(AKA Tankies)
TL;DR: Yes I concur my friend. The definition and usage of Tankie is indeed quite well established, ACTUALLY.