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Russian Court Jails Woman for Wearing 'Extremist' Rainbow Earrings (www.themoscowtimes.com)
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[–] 74 points 2 years ago (19 children)

Where all the tankies at? Lets hear why this is totally cool and ok.

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Clearly rainbows are part of the aggressive expansionism of NATO, and Russia is just responding to it

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    lol if you ask for it the brigade of angry people will appear to explain how you’re a racist and a terrible person for not thinking like them

    But first they will deflect by asking you to define what a tankie is.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago*

    No no no, you don't understand, Russia has (in the past) implemented my favorite economic system (please ignore all the people who died as political criminals), thus nothing they do is wrong. Rainbow earrings are just a small casualty, you gotta look big picture!

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (6 children)
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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    As if tankies aren't constantly simping for both Russia and China on here.

    A little history refresher on the origin of the term

    The term "tankie" was originally used by dissident Marxist–Leninists to describe members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) who followed the party line of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Specifically, it was used to distinguish party members who spoke out in defense of the Soviet use of tanks to crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the 1968 Prague Spring uprising, or who more broadly adhered to pro-Soviet positions.

    So specifically being a tankie and supporting fascist bullshit go hand in hand and always have.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (2 children)

    I must admit that I haven't met any who do so can't argue for or against this. I can understand that they might have done 20-30 years ago but I don't see them "simpling for" any of them really. But neither Russia or China are kommunist regimes any longer. Maybe back when the term was coined, as you described in your quote but not any longer. Before it dead the community now it is the leader

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    I like to imagine these accounts learned about tankies only 6 months ago when they joined Lemmy and were encountered by lots of leftists with wildly different international worldviews than them.

    As a byproduct, it's just their way of making sense of those differences they don't otherwise understand.

    Nobody that they're describing would actually defend shit like this, but thats about as well as they understand those people.

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