In light of recent events and confusion, I think we would all benefit from having a single, concise definition for the word tankie. Here are my suggestions:
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Someone who believes that violence has a proper use and that that use isn’t “getting bananas for my tum tum”
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Some dumbass Kremlin bot who thinks that Russia is a country rather than an actual duchy of hell
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A Neo-Shermanist
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A fascist in every way, except the ones that matter and also the other ones
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A hysterical CCP bot who lacks our sensible, rules-based policy of zero-tolerance for the Chinese
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A MAGAt who thinks that Drumpf was neither the beginning nor the end of our problems, and who thinks it’s funny - FUNNY, I SAY - that we’re so caught up on him
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A non-conservative who is mean to me about my opinions
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Mom, systematically repressing me with a fascist so-called bedtime 😡
Idk if I’m a tankie. I know a lot of the stuff we heard about USSR was lies in the form of propaganda, so I assume a lot of what we hear about China and North Korea is the same.
By the definition of a lot of lemmyverse libs you’re 100% a tankie
According to what I’ve seen, even entertaining doubt at the validity of unsourced claims by Western media and state departments makes you a tankie.
If you cite the cia on Soviet caloric intake you’re also a tankie
And if you cite the CIA on whether Stalin was an all-powerful dictator, you’re a super-tankie
You would be correct. Very much recommend the Blowback podcast, it’s a wild ride.
It’s got H. Jon Benjamin! A little bit of fun between the horrors!
Filthy, STINKY, tankieses, we hates them!
Tankie:
Doesn’t it mean tank fetishist? Wait, what have y’all been talking about this whole time?
Tanktop master
… Hungary had that shit coming. “Waaaahhh my pogroms, waaahhhh I can’t keep marking the homes of Jews and Communists for extermination! Waaah!”
Tankie: the poster reading this
A tankie is someone who wears very small tanktops. The smaller and tighter the tanktop the tankiest the person.
Tankie is when someone says something true
that I dismiss by simply saying “Tankieeeeeee”I get called a tankie imperialist for being anti war. Maybe we can work that in somehow?
Supported the USSR intervention in Hungary. Anything else is too nebulous and pointless. I’ve seen anarchists get call tankies for having Marxist economic views.
Die-hard Michael Dukakis supporters
I didn’t realize he was still alive. We should get him to do an ama
This is the correct answer
I just like tanks. I think they are neat.
Anyone who rejects me
My girlfriend from Canada. She goes to a different school. You wouldn’t know her. >.>
