this post was submitted on 03 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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[โ€“] negativeyoda 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm still not convinced that a sizeable chunk of tankies aren't right wing false flag types trying to make anything other than the capitalism we're all dealing with seem reasonable in comparison to the authoritarianism they peddle

[โ€“] Ataraxia 9 points 1 year ago

Correct. Because that's exactly what they make people feel like and if we were actual idiots we would fall for it. Instead they're just insufferable trolls. Fuck them.