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What was your First encounter with a tankie? (self.tankiejerk)

submitted 2 years ago by Zstom6IP to c/tankiejerk

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Mine happened when i first made a reddit account, i got banned from a subreddit with a tankie moderator because i questioned the logic of having lenin as the subreddits profile, for a subreddit devoted to anti conservative memes.

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[–] coffeeffoc -4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Tankie is a pejorative label for communists,

[–] FinnFooted 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Specifically authoritarian ones. it's a term used by communists/leftists for other communists mostly.

[–] Zstom6IP 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, some people do get confused due to the fact that some capitalists have co-opted the term for their own use.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Some tankies also claim that it applies to all communists, mostly as a smoke screen for their authoritarianism.

[–] Zstom6IP 7 points 2 years ago

thats a propaganda line only spouted from the mouths of those engulfed in tankie misinformation.