this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2023
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Tankiejerk

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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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's unhinged folks everywhere. Just stay clear of their instances.

[–] Fried_out_Kombi 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Early on, I think lemmy was dominated by unhinged people, because they used it as a refuge when they got banned from reddit for being too unhinged. But as the rest of us normies migrated over because of the API fuckery, the unhinged people are once again in the minority. I see tankies get consistently downvoted into oblivion nowadays, which is a good sign in my book.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

No doubt in my mind we outnumber them at this point. We can't let loud voices taint this place.