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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My new favorite hobby is calling tankies bad-faith imperialist shills and implying they're not communist enough (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Fried_out_Kombi to c/tankiejerk

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can't be pro worker and pro China, the literal sweatshop nation.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tankies go out of their way to defend an absolute hereditary monarchy just because the Kim Dynasty says they are communist, defending China is nothing in comparison. They are the same kind of idiots as the ones that fell for the "Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei" (socialist workers party) part of the NSAPD's (aka Nazi party) name.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

North Korea isn't a monarchy. It's a necrocracy. Officially the first Kim is still leader, despite being dead.

[–] RedAggroBest 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like a theocracy with extra steps

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It basically is.

Weird mix between Fascism, and Theocracy.

Interesting read on this:

The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why it Matters is a 2010 book by Brian Reynolds Myers. Based on a study of the propaganda produced in North Korea for internal consumption, Myers argues that the guiding ideology of North Korea is a race-based far-right nationalism derived from Japanese fascism, rather than any form of communism. The book is based on author's study of the material in the Information Center on North Korea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cleanest_Race

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

It has layers, like onions, and green ogres.