Remember kids, Tankies wants to undermine democracy - same as facists.
this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2023
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@LtLiana puzzled by this comment. "Tankies" have been around since long before most people on reddit were even born.
I've met tankies irl. They just keep their mouths shut offline.
More like I was fine discussing Marxist talking points, but they eventually turned to defending the ccp and I suddenly had something else to.do.
So, Whats a chapo? Are chappies tankies?
I feel so old. My bones ache.
I was going to say that this sounds made up cause I never once saw one, much less in Lemmy, and point out the big contradiction . Then I noticed I haven't met any actual tankies in both here and IRL either so point taken.
over here (germany) you actually meet tankies every now and again at leftist protests, but they usually aren't taken very seriously
When you counterculture so hard you loop back into mainstream
I'm from Germany too and that is news to me. Maybe region dependant? I live in Bremen.
Thank you! I'll go take a look
Edit: it appears to be more prevalent in former East Germany. That would explain it. I don't go there often.
you critiqued the tankie discourse
then proceeded to bullshit the tankie discourse
Have you seen hexbear? They seem to fit the tankie category to a tee
At yes the glorious centrist arrived /halfjoking
Also note how similar to a Nazi they sound (mind you i am not calling this person one). Nazis always argue we should debate their ideas but we know that shit doesn't work and is a way to legitimize their genocidal rhetoric.
Then there's the whataboutism and concern trolling. We should think about UnItY when tankies have the fascistic ideals and cause this divisiveness. This hit all and people got pissed.
Honestly you're right. I mostly noticed how they reminded me of liberal centrists but decided to have it be a passing joke instead because I didn't feel like picking an argument today.