Earnest answers on the definition of a Tankie (as per the thread topic), bringing up their viewpoints or talking about the authoritarianism they promote were removed and users banned.

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[–] 38 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Tankies: it's a disparaging term used by libs to discredit actual communists!

Also tankies: check out this video on tankie.tube

I cannot grasp their relationship to the word, and I think they can't either. They even removed the comment explaining exactly where the term originated and how it's used today. Wild. Does that mean we can scare off tankies with etymology?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    It's correct in the sense of the word, but not from where it comes. It was first used to distinguish communist party members who spoke out in defense of the Soviet use of tanks to suppress the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the 1968 Prague Spring.

    But it's nitpicking - the same group of people also were behind the Tienanmen Square massacre.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    no, we care about that russia is doing the same thing today, nothing has changed over there except that they dropped the thin veneer of communism and went straight to kleptocracy. And i can't remember Austria giving Israel tanks. go touch some grass.

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