Tankies gonna ~~tank.~~ cry about literally anything.
this post was submitted on 05 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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You know it's true because they used lots of technical terms and big words. If you throw enough political terminology into a paragraph, it makes it the right viewpoint to have.
Why use few word when innumerable plethora of diction of the grandest order performs the task admirably?
It has to be the right terminology though. The Pavlovian bells to let tankies know what they should feel when they read it.
See this is what makes them different from those horrible alt right chuds, their trigger words sound fancier.
Totally different mentality, totally different people.