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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:

  • Someone who believes that violence has a proper use and that that use isn't "getting bananas for my tum tum"

  • Some dumbass Kremlin bot who thinks that Russia is a country rather than an actual duchy of hell

  • A Neo-Shermanist

  • A fascist in every way, except the ones that matter and also the other ones

  • A hysterical CCP bot who lacks our sensible, rules-based policy of zero-tolerance for the Chinese

  • 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

  • A non-conservative who is mean to me about my opinions

  • Mom, systematically repressing me with a fascist so-called bedtime 😡

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[-] Jerrimu2@startrek.website 43 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

If you cite the cia on Soviet caloric intake you're also a tankie

[-] ProfessorAdonisCnut@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

And if you cite the CIA on whether Stalin was an all-powerful dictator, you're a super-tankie

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You would be correct. Very much recommend the Blowback podcast, it's a wild ride.

[-] macabrett@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

It's got H. Jon Benjamin! A little bit of fun between the horrors!

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