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 😡

43 points

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.

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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.

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If you cite the cia on Soviet caloric intake you’re also a tankie

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And if you cite the CIA on whether Stalin was an all-powerful dictator, you’re a super-tankie

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You would be correct. Very much recommend the Blowback podcast, it’s a wild ride.

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It’s got H. Jon Benjamin! A little bit of fun between the horrors!

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Filthy, STINKY, tankieses, we hates them!

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Tankie:

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Tanktop master

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

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