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

submitted 1 year 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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[–] FinnFooted 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Zstom6IP 3 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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