this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2023
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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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It was on here, on my first day. I went and asked "what even is a tankie?"
Then began a pretty meaningfully discussion, but it was less about the whole pro authoritarian cult of personality, and more about communism and human nature in general and the origin of the term Tankie, because I have never heard it outside a few "fuck tankie" comments on r/politics.
Now that I think about it, I'm not sure the people were actual tankies, unless they were avoiding the topic altogether.
I got alot of "It's just something the liberals say and has lost meaning"
I have since visited a few random posts where the people were sort of glorifying these utter scum bags and I'm not sure of the logic in it.
I've come to the conclusion that these people think: humans suck, shitty people will take power regardless, so let's try and manipulate it to at least get "smarter" authoritarian leader. And in the process they've become enamored with these people.
No idea
thats why i included a definition of tankie on the sidebar, to prevent confusion.
Oh well I know what one is after my first day here for sure. Lol
Did you have the misfortune of joining lemmygrad or lemmy.ml?
Nope. Lemmy.world. but I meandered over to take a look out of curiosity. People are fascinating. I'm interested in how they think and how they have come to their conclusions, the nitty gritty stuff really peaks my interest, but I'd still like to think I'd call bullshit when I see it (:
So you willingly dove head first into the tankie hellhole? wow, must take some special curage.
Yea I was sort of curious. I like to at least know what these people are thinking if I'm gonna talk shit. And talk shit I will. (:
Thats a good idea, if you find anything extra incriminating be sure to post a screenshot here, this community is for that, though i recommend you censor usernames to protect their privacy.