What’s a tankie?
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 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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Someone who unironically supports authoritarian communist regimes, e.g. China, the USSR, North Korea, etc
A fascist that thinks they know economics