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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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Sorry but what’s a tankie?
Check out the community info, because that's how I found out.
It's somebody that defends authoritarian governments because of their support of socialism.
an ML, soviet apologist, or generally an authoritarian leftist.
Tankie is a pejorative label for communists,
Specifically authoritarian ones. it's a term used by communists/leftists for other communists mostly.
Yeah, some people do get confused due to the fact that some capitalists have co-opted the term for their own use.
Some tankies also claim that it applies to all communists, mostly as a smoke screen for their authoritarianism.
thats a propaganda line only spouted from the mouths of those engulfed in tankie misinformation.