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I swear "tankie" has lost all meaning on this site, if it ever had any to begin with.
Tankie means you pretend to worship "communist" counties than run over their civilians with tanks.
It has always meant those people who obsessively espouse support for authoritarian dictatorships with xommunist in the name.
if they think North Korea, USSR, and CCP are awesome and nice and the only true communists, then they're tankies.
They tend to have a lot of other toxic behavior but that's the defining characteristic
Sure, but people on this site call basically any leftist they disagree with a tankie. I've seen so many discussions of leftists just talking about how much the US sucks and needs to be destroyed and rebuilt only for people to call them tankies cause they brought up the need for violence. Even people that openly state that even if they like certain aspects of those governments, they're not communist and are very much capitalist get called tankies. It's just this site's buzzword insult.
Tankies aren't leftists.
And there has been a huge problem with tankies on lemmt. It not a buzzword, it's a kneejerk reaction.
Also if your account is on one of the tankie-triad instances then people will assume you're a tankie no matter what you say
See, that's part of the loop here. Tankies are definitionally leftist, else they'd be called something other than tankie. It is the application of leftism, be it deemed, fake, real, red fash, bot, etc, is what's uneven and arbitrary.
So much so it is to the point that applying it based on the user's instance is considered a norm.