this post was submitted on 08 Oct 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€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can definitely make the argument it is genocide if you have to erase your culture and supplement it with the one of the state.

[โ€“] gmtom 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah you can make that argument. And I would agree with it too. But I would also respect someone who (in good faith) makes the argument that it isn't.