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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!

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

Filthy, STINKY, tankieses, we hates them!

[-] DoghouseCharlie@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago
[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago
[-] imikoy@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Tanktop master

bottom-speak

[-] BigHaas@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

Doesn't it mean tank fetishist? Wait, what have y'all been talking about this whole time?

[-] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

... Hungary had that shit coming. "Waaaahhh my pogroms, waaahhhh I can't keep marking the homes of Jews and Communists for extermination! Waaah!"

[-] sharedburdens@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

Tankie: the poster reading this

[-] Tychoxii@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

A tankie is someone who wears very small tanktops. The smaller and tighter the tanktop the tankiest the person.

[-] Tidal_Tempest@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tankie is when someone says something true ~~that I dismiss by simply saying "Tankieeeeeee"~~

[-] NewLeaf@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

I get called a tankie imperialist for being anti war. Maybe we can work that in somehow?

[-] GivingEuropeASpook@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

Supported the USSR intervention in Hungary. Anything else is too nebulous and pointless. I've seen anarchists get call tankies for having Marxist economic views.

[-] Sphere@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Die-hard Michael Dukakis supporters tankie

[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

I didn't realize he was still alive. We should get him to do an ama

[-] pooh@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

This is the correct answer

[-] Vingst@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

I just like tanks. I think they are neat. capabara-tank

[-] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

My girlfriend from Canada. She goes to a different school. You wouldn't know her. >.>

[-] Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago
[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Woah, didn't know Lemmy was so full of British Social democrats from the 1950s that really care about Hungary.

[-] Judge_Jury@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

If that was still it's main definition, we'd be hearing a lot less of it

[-] Saizaku@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 year ago

The word has effectively lost all meaning starting with neolib youtubers posing as leftists ( think Vaush etc). I'm an anarchist and got called a tankie for debunking propaganda against 20th century socialist projects. I have my critiques of the communist projects and leaders of the 20th century but apparently if I don't buy CIA propaganda that makes me a tankie.

[-] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Before Vaush and after the uprising, it referred to larpers who think that the revolution could just happen tomorrow, and seemed a bit too eager to do violence.

Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

someone that is a dirty owl

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

The One True Tankie

[-] blight@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

someone who is a doo doo head and is bad and i don't like them please go away

[-] SunsetFruitbat@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

a tankie is someone whose very ~~cool~~ sorry I mean bad and totally not cool or based

[-] ZapataCadabra@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

If the tank isn't from the Budapest region of Hungary, then it's not a tankie it's a Armed Anti-Fascist Intervention.

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

isn't it funnier if we don't

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

a tankie is someone who constantly complains about being called a tankie

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

But that's the thing, I've never been called one. I want to be prepared

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

everyone who isn't me

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

It's another name for fans of Thomas the Tank Engine

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Used to be anyone left of the DNC, now it's anyone left of the pentagon

[-] HornyOnMain@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Tankie is when you main Reinhardt and roadhog

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