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What's a Tankie? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by the_mighty_kracken@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I keep hearing the term in political discourse, and rather than googling it, I'm asking the people who know better than Google.

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[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I am in the same boat. Been on here for about 2 years and I hear the words...but i dunno what it means? Thought it was just me.

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[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

I'm so happy I'm not as stupid as I thought because I have no idea either and now I still don't know

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

It's a loaded term by design. It started as a pejorative and morphed into a strawman pejorative, you can see many people throughout this thread describing people that don't exist.

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