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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

I can't believe you would all be this immature.

How do you expect to bring people to your side with this attitude?

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[-] SockOlm@hexbear.net 21 points 3 days ago

This is all the fault of you goddang tankies SMH angery

[-] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 12 points 3 days ago

Who even came up with the term tankie anyway? I had never even heard it until a month ago, now it's like everyone is a tankie.

I know what it means now, but like what is its origin story? Who was the first tankie to be called a tankie?

[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 31 points 3 days ago

british communists infighting over whether to support the soviet union sending tanks to crush a (now for sure known to be) color revolution in hungary in the 1950s

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago

I know what it means now

well that makes one of us

[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 days ago

Usually used as a pejorative against anyone to the left of biden/dnc

[-] Facky@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago
[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago

I'm not even a communist (well, I'm indistinguishable from one based on my posting here but in a more nuanced conversation there are some differences) and I get called a tankie. Anarchists get called tankies for calling for an end of the Zionist occupation of Palestine. Social Democrats get called tankies for wanting reduced military spending.

[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

Not long after Russia rolled into Ukraine, Noam Chomsky, a guy that has called the collapse of the Soviet Union socialism's greatest victory, released a statement putting the conflict in its proper historical context, and basically the whole of reddit started calling him a tankie lol.

From that point on it was indisputable that the term has become literally meaningless.

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