this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2023
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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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Sounds like it's short for red fascist.
It is. A lot of tankies have more in common with fascists than other leftists, save for some vague Marxist pandering, and doing the same exact corporate BS but by the state instead of private corporations.
Yah, we socialists don’t get them tankies either.