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What's a Tankie? (lemmy.world)

I keep hearing the term in political discourse, and rather than googling it, I'm asking the people who know better than Google.

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[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I've always felt the best way to define them as someone so against westernism that they support authoritarian governments like China and Russia while ignoring the hypocrisy of said governments. They're not really communists, and they would violently oppose actual communism.

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this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2025
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