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[-] Grazed@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

I find that when people use this term I get suspicious. It could be used to describe authoritarian Stalinists, Maoists, Marxist-Leninists, or just communists/socialists in general. I wish that posters would be more specific, because everyone and their mother has a different definition of "tanky". It often comes across as a thought-terminator. I'm not up to speed on the Lemmy beef, so I have no idea who's right, but I've seen like 10 posts about tankies and none of them really defined the term, which is very frustrating.

[-] Quadhammer@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

Tankie would be ml or militant left

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

The .ml stands for machine learning obviously. Get with the times old head!

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

See?

This dude's embarrassingly wrong.

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz -1 points 1 month ago
[-] Grazed@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

I read the first paragraph and it was pretty much exactly what I said. I'm not confused by the meaning of the term, if that's why you shared it.

[-] untorquer@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago

Ostensibly left (soc/comm) pro authoritarian.

this post was submitted on 28 Dec 2025
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