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Ok. I'm new here. What's a tankie
Edit: tysm everyone for the answers
People who are obsessed with tanks
Freshwater or salt?
No you’re thinking of Acoustic people
Hey that’s… accurate but fuck your for calling me out
Sounds right
Panzer IV my beloved
I blame Red Alert 2. Love me some comically large tanks with multiple barrels and missile racks.
Ah that's me
People that Stan authoritarian countries. The term comes from when the USSR crushed liberation movements with tanks in the Republics and many western communists approved of the crushing. People who love China, Russia, Assad’s Syria, etc are tankies.
Makes sense. Tyvm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
Just avoid the Tankie Triad (.ml, hex and grad) and you'll be fine
I think hexbear.net is expired, so hexbear straight up isn't an option atm.
EDIT: it's back up, as cm0002 pointed out.
Nah the domain admin (unfortunately) eventually showed up and reclaimed it before the auction could complete. It's been restored and they actually added additional admins to the domain console this time :(
I stand corrected. Comment edited.
Derogatory term accusing someone of being a communist/Marxist.
More specifically, Stalinist/Maoist/any-other-„communist“-tyrant-ist. It refers specifically to people who excuse/deny tyranny and oppression caused by anyone who calls themselves communist.
As I said, communists/Marxists. Marx was an "authoritarian" socialist, and by far the largest strain of Marxism in the world is "Stalinism," aka Marxism-Leninism, the second largest probably being Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.
And, as I said, it's derogatory, which suggests the people saying it view such strains of thought as "tyrannical." So no part of your correction was at all necessary.
No, it's specifically authoritarian communists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
The term is used outside that scope frequently.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
Corpo speak for communist originally, but now just used for most left-leaning people. Sucks though because I used it endearingly and now it's used for center-left people who are far from communist :(
these days it's just Blue Team's version of "woke"
Yeah, suck it blue! I mean red! I mean blue! Ugh!