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What is with the lemmy community's deep fear or tankies?
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I think there could be some learned helplessness from being soaked in
for their entire lives. Providing thoughtful analysis that leads them to a conclusion that 'tastes bad' to their 
results in a kind of political disgust. Spit it out fast! Tankie just happens to be the current floating signifier available to forget that nasty taste of historical materialism, etc.