I’ve been including the ones who want to murder all the rich people and government officials with the tankies even though they don’t want to use tanks.
You’re not using the word right then. Which will hurt any arguments you make while using it.
Again, it’s a pejorative all about embracing authoritarianism. The tankies love government officials so long as those government officials follow any kind of communist kayfabe. The tankies are totally okay with billionaire oligarchs in Russia. The tankies would oppose and protest any kind of violence directed against the government’s they like. They adore social hierarchies and loathe western democracy.
And there are plenty of anarchists that embrace violence.
Stick with alt-left or more direct pejoratives.
I include them because they are taking about “revolution” and the only way you successfully overthrow a federal government is by force which necessitates the use of tanks even if they haven’t considered the fact that the fetal government is going to fight back with tanks and many, if not all of them, will be killed.
That’s not what the word means. At all.
It’s about being on the side of the tanks – specifically the Tienanmen Square tanks. It is literally the opposite of wanting to use tanks to overthrow the government.
I understand how you’re using it. I’m just warning you that you are very much going your own way with this word and are going to look foolish if you do so.
