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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It would be interesting to conduct a poll to find out where they're all from. I suspect there aren't for example a lot of German or French Tankies because that would require an impressive amount of self-delusion on their part.
Never underestimate the amount that people can delude themselves, after all there were covid deniers who saw people around them dying from covid and still denied it to the end.