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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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[–] mukt@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Fascism doesn't necessarily have the hereditary property of monarchism. Power can easily get transferred to other families, not related by blood.

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