this post was submitted on 13 Oct 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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[–] Alteon 14 points 1 year ago

Liberals aren't bad. Social Democrats aren't bad. Those "true" socialists are fucking nuts though. Good riddance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Claim to be left-wing, but kick all of that to the curb to lick the boots of any far-right extremist faction that promises to conquer and erase a vexing pro-Western neighbor- Ruzzia, Hamas, etc.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

they don't care about communism in the slightest.

only the death of america

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

No wonder they love Ruzzia so much, probably because they threaten us with nukes that can totally singlehandedly launch Florida into orbit (source: trust me bro) on a daily basis (to the point that between them, Iran and now Israel nuke threats are now meaningless) and suddenly want a state from us that would give them thousands of gays to kill and put them on Seattle’s doorstep (so just one Trump-like president away from tech secrets and even deadlier homophobic killing sprees for them!), now that it’s becoming a frozen Saudi Arabia sans enslaved desis/gay-defenestratings