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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Seeing much more tankie from ml lately (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by Roflmasterbigpimp to c/tankiejerk

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

By that stupid definition there's no true capitalism either, so what's your point?

[–] Maggoty 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh? Are there no countries with private ownership of industry?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh? Are there no countries with state ownership of industry?

If that's your criteria, then yes, there are both truly communist and truly capitalist countries.

[–] Maggoty 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Tell me which country claiming to be communist is not actually just a dictatorship with a veneer?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

None? That was like 200% sarcasm. You used a single criteria to mark countries as truly capitalist, so I though I might as well do the same.