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[Serious] Can someone explain what a "tankie" is? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm very OOTL when it comes to a lot of the major divides in online communities because thankfully I've managed to avoid most of the arguing. I've noticed a lot of instances say "no tankies" as one of their first rules and figured this might be the only place I could get a real answer.

Was there something specific they did to piss off everyone? If I had to take a shot in the dark, are they just people who are really pro-military?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've found most use it to just refer to any communists at this point

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

People who use it that way are dipsticks, but I'm not surprised.

Dubcek was a communist, and so were most of those oppressed by the Soviet forces from which Tankies get their name.

There is a wild world of difference between the person who's like "Karl Marx was correct, but the USSR did a lot of extremely horrible things," and the kind of creep who openly stans Xi Jinping and Stalin.