this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2025
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wikipedia has a good article about the term

If you think Hitler is bad, wait until you hear what he has to say about the soviets!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

But seriously this is an argument that has been over since before anyone alive today was ever born

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/10/authority.htm

authoritarianism = bad is literal baby brain

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

All it really boils down to is "supports AES," though. The article even says as much.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I skimmed through the article and I have no clue what does being a tankie have to do with encryption algorithms

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

Actually Existing Socialism. Cuba, Vietnam, China, Laos, the former USSR, etc.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Just replace "woke" with "russian".

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

Its become the boomer equivalent of calling everything bad communist.

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

Whoever taught liberals that word, I hope they have diarrhea forever.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago

That would probably be some ultras, they are very desperate to be recognized by liberals as "true communists" unlike those "fake authoritarians". Liberals of course don't give a shit and immediately labeled ultras as tankies as well.

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