Tankiejerk

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Dunking on Tankies from a leftist perspective.

A tankie is someone who defends/supports authoritarian or even totalitarian regimes who call themselves "socialist". The term originated from people supporting the 1956 invasion of Hungary by the Soviet Union. Nowadays they are just terminally online, denying genocides, and falling for totalitarian propaganda and calling such regimes "true democracies". remember to censor usernames when necessary.

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What was your First encounter with a tankie? (lemmy.world)

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Mine happened when i first made a reddit account, i got banned from a subreddit with a tankie moderator because i questioned the logic of having lenin as the subreddits profile, for a subreddit devoted to anti conservative memes.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

So you're a full tankie.

The term was coined when the soviets put down the Hungarian revolution of 1956 with tanks. Other communists critical of the brutal suppression of a popular revolution coined the term to describe the authoritarianism of the people who thought it was fine and dandy.

Modern tankies deny that Tiananman Square never happened. They deny that the CCP is committing genocide. They claim that Russia is justified in invading Ukraine.

They tend to think that China or Russia are somehow good since the US is so obviously evil.

Some people can't accept that most countries are run by evil people.