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[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

At this point I'm not sure if they are tankies, or whether they've just been called tankies by people who call all leftists tankies.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago
[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This makes sense.

I do think "tankie" is the wrong word, as "bootlicker" sounds more apt since Russia hasn't been communist since '91.

As in, these devs are definitely authoritarian, but communist? Absolutely not.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

They're definitely all about the communism too. I answered a post asking for any surviving examples of communism with "I think Cuba counts" and got banned Rule 1 IIRC.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

That's... distinctly NOT being about actual communism... that's about being pro tankie propaganda...

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm an anarchist, these people are the kind of genocide appreciators who call all dissenting leftists tankies

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Nope, clear definition:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof.

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