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:
Tanktop master
Doesn’t it mean tank fetishist? Wait, what have y’all been talking about this whole time?
… 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”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.
I get called a tankie imperialist for being anti war. Maybe we can work that in somehow?
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
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My girlfriend from Canada. She goes to a different school. You wouldn’t know her. >.>
I just like tanks. I think they are neat.
