Tankiejerk@lemmy.world · 10 months ago

What Is a Tankie? (What, Who, Why - and How To Handle)

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What Is a Tankie? (What, Who, Why - and How To Handle)

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Tankiejerk@lemmy.world · 10 months ago

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Have you ever encountered the term "Tankie" and wondered what it meant?In this video, we cover the meaning of the word, it's origins, and it's evolving use i...

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Are you unironically linking to Hakim.

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Dunking on Tankies from a leftist perspective.

A tankie is someone who defends/supports authoritarian or even totalitarian regimes who call themselves “socialist”. The term originated from people supporting the 1956 invasion of Hungary by the Soviet Union. Nowadays they are just terminally online, denying genocides, and falling for totalitarian propaganda and calling such regimes “true democracies”. remember to censor usernames when necessary.

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