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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Okay you've got me... what does it stand for? Hadn't given it any thought really, just thought it was a top-level domain that they picked at random.
ML stands for marxism leninism, the predominent tankie ideology, all the admins are marxist leninists as well.
I guess I never connected the dots there. I knew about the devs what with their profile pics and the lemmy.ml about/description, etc.
However, I think there's a world of difference between being a Marxist / Leninist and being a Putinist.
luckily we arent on lemmy.ml.
marxism-leninism lol