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Are you a 'tankie'
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I havent figured out yet what a tankie is.
The original definition comes the crushing of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 to describe communists who supported the crushing of the uprising.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
A lot of people who use that term to describe other tankies seem to be using it the correct way while people who are tankies seem to want to change it to something else because of the implications of that definition.
It reminds me a lot of how conservatives will claim nazi or racist or fascist has lost all meaning
it's what people who are literally demanding that the west sends tanks to the proxy war in Ukraine are calling people who want to end the war right now
You know how a conservative calls anyone to the left of them "woke"? Well it's exactly that but with democrats.
Tribalists whose ingroup-uber-alles identity is any kind of leftism. The sort of person who would excuse unimaginable cruelty so long as it's done in the name of opposing "the west."