Ok so a tankie is anyone who questions the baseless assertions of western regimes, the truth isn't actaully important to you, what matters is whether someone upholds obvious falsehoods and reinforces state propaganda but from the west

Got ya buddy

[–] trafficnab@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I forgot to add "struggles with reading comprehension", that's also a big indicator

[–] Flaps@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

starts whining about Hexbear
starts calling people tankies
uses debunked western narrative about tiananmen as litmus test
gets pushback
'you can't read'
continues whining about hexbear

[–] trafficnab@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I didn't call anyone a tankie, a whole bunch of people from hexbear sure did show up feeling incredibly offended by my description of tankies though, if they want to out themselves like that, that's on them

[–] UnicodeHamSic@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

No, most of us are tankies. We think using tanks on Hungarian fascists was cool and good.

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Baseless accusations, lies, peddling long since-disproven myths and then whining when the consequences come around do actually offend me, you got me

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

"Reading comprehension" is when you accept everything you read at face value, I'm not really surprised that's something you believe