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(Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin, running for a new six-year term in an election that his opponents say is a parody of democracy, said on Tuesday that past U.S. elections had been rigged by postal voting.

"In the United States, previous elections were falsified through postal voting ... they bought ballots for $10, filled them out, and threw them into mailboxes without any supervision from observers, and that's it," Putin said, without providing evidence.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sorry for not falling for the "I don't know what a tankie even is here on the Fediverse, but I'm also 100% sure that they aren't a problem and you're exaggerating, pwease spoon-feed me what it means"

[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

So you're just going to ignore the weaponization of the word across the political spectrum to the point where it's actually a pointless accusation?

If you think I was JAQing, I'll dispell that right now by giving the brief history for you and others. The origin of the term Tanky is from British marxists who used it as a term to seperate themselves from other British marxists that supported the brutal crushing of a worker revolt in Hungary, and has since turned into a term (by, for, and directed at) leftists that unequivocally support totalitarianism coming from a leftist perspective. Some leftists have also expanded that meaning to be people that identify with Marxist-Leninism. Others still use it to degrade people that want a scientific analysis of the successes and failures of other socialist projects. The alt-right uses it to disparage anyone with leftist sympathies. Liberals picked it up and use it to disparage people left of liberals.

Sorry for trying to have a common understanding I guess.