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In light of recent events and confusion, I think we would all benefit from having a single, concise definition for the word tankie. Here are my suggestions:

  • Someone who believes that violence has a proper use and that that use isn't "getting bananas for my tum tum"

  • Some dumbass Kremlin bot who thinks that Russia is a country rather than an actual duchy of hell

  • A Neo-Shermanist

  • A fascist in every way, except the ones that matter and also the other ones

  • A hysterical CCP bot who lacks our sensible, rules-based policy of zero-tolerance for the Chinese

  • A MAGAt who thinks that Drumpf was neither the beginning nor the end of our problems, and who thinks it's funny - FUNNY, I SAY - that we're so caught up on him

  • A non-conservative who is mean to me about my opinions

  • Mom, systematically repressing me with a fascist so-called bedtime ๐Ÿ˜ก

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[โ€“] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Idk if Iโ€™m a tankie. I know a lot of the stuff we heard about USSR was lies in the form of propaganda, so I assume a lot of what we hear about China and North Korea is the same.

[โ€“] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

By the definition of a lot of lemmyverse libs you're 100% a tankie

According to what I've seen, even entertaining doubt at the validity of unsourced claims by Western media and state departments makes you a tankie.

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you cite the cia on Soviet caloric intake you're also a tankie

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

And if you cite the CIA on whether Stalin was an all-powerful dictator, you're a super-tankie

[โ€“] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You would be correct. Very much recommend the Blowback podcast, it's a wild ride.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

It's got H. Jon Benjamin! A little bit of fun between the horrors!

[โ€“] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago

Filthy, STINKY, tankieses, we hates them!

[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago

Doesn't it mean tank fetishist? Wait, what have y'all been talking about this whole time?

[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Tanktop master

bottom-speak

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

... Hungary had that shit coming. "Waaaahhh my pogroms, waaahhhh I can't keep marking the homes of Jews and Communists for extermination! Waaah!"

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Tankie: the poster reading this

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

A tankie is someone who wears very small tanktops. The smaller and tighter the tanktop the tankiest the person.

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Tankie is when someone says something true ~~that I dismiss by simply saying "Tankieeeeeee"~~

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

I get called a tankie imperialist for being anti war. Maybe we can work that in somehow?

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Supported the USSR intervention in Hungary. Anything else is too nebulous and pointless. I've seen anarchists get call tankies for having Marxist economic views.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Die-hard Michael Dukakis supporters tankie

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I didn't realize he was still alive. We should get him to do an ama

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

This is the correct answer

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

I just like tanks. I think they are neat. capabara-tank

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

My girlfriend from Canada. She goes to a different school. You wouldn't know her. >.>

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

someone that is a dirty owl

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

The One True Tankie

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

someone who is a doo doo head and is bad and i don't like them please go away

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

a tankie is someone whose very ~~cool~~ sorry I mean bad and totally not cool or based

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

If the tank isn't from the Budapest region of Hungary, then it's not a tankie it's a Armed Anti-Fascist Intervention.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

isn't it funnier if we don't

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

a tankie is someone who constantly complains about being called a tankie

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

But that's the thing, I've never been called one. I want to be prepared

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

everyone who isn't me

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

It's another name for fans of Thomas the Tank Engine

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Used to be anyone left of the DNC, now it's anyone left of the pentagon

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Tankie is when you main Reinhardt and roadhog