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Probably didn't see a lot of tankies themselves until you came here either, but lemmygrad and hexbear are where they live.
Mentions of them are abundant here because they are abundant here themselves and annoy everyone else.
Fr just the other day I came across a lemmygrad post asking if they should try one way defederations so lemmygrad posts can show up on other instances but non lemmygrad posts can't show up to lemmygrad users and most of the post was basically just "we need to show everyone how good communism is while purifying our views" yea lemmygrads really are ignorant and just want to be a minor annoyance to the rest of us
I still don’t even know what a tankie is. It sounds extremely ignorant like referring to sex as hanky panky.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
Hexbear with me, I'm no scholar. So I link to Wikipedia
A tankie came from people who defended the tanks in the infamous picture of that guy stand in front of a long line of tanks.
Those people claim to be communist and that China is awesome.
They're lying about both tho. Their far right authortians, and far right authortians love nothing more than pretending to be anything except who they are.
They're referring to communists. Originally the term was a slur for communists who approve of one-party communist regimes that are associated with Marxism–Leninism.
Since the Reddit diaspora, I've seen it applied to communists, socialists, anyone who has expressed any criticism of capitalism, and users that others dislike. I think it's turning into how Americans use "communist" as a pejorative: they don't know what the word actually means, it's now just a word for things they don't like.
The communist pejorative has been dead for... Decades and decades. Like 4, at least. By the 80's it had lost its charm, and young adults would roll their eyes when gramps used it.
There are plenty of other similar, (now-meaningless) pejoratives tossed about all the time. It's old and tiresome to hear/see.
I've searched before, do you know why "tankie"? I can't get a good etymology on it, like how it would reference single-party communist states?
Edit: hmm, Guess I missed the Wikipedia entry on it, though I could swear I'd read it before. Thanks Habiscus!
From the US. Communist was tired 40 years ago. I saw it first hand, by the 70's kids were already getting tired of it, by the 80's the next generation just said "sure gramps".
Yea, you still hear it a little today, but nothing like it used to be.
It's this.