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YourLovelyTina
03/18/21 1:50:53 PM
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you know what, forget it

I don't know, and I don't really care
it's just another stupid internet buzzword like "simp"

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TroutPaste
03/18/21 1:51:33 PM
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It's a person who believes in far-left objectives literally. Leninist, Maoist ideals... often from their keyboard

Of course, it's going to be used outside of that 99% of the time

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Tyranthraxus
03/18/21 1:51:50 PM
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Found the tankie

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armandro
03/18/21 1:52:05 PM
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TroutPaste posted...
It's a person who believes in far-left objectives literally. Leninist, Maoist ideals... often from their keyboard
can you explain it in English?

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TroutPaste
03/18/21 1:53:19 PM
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armandro posted...
can you explain it in English?

eat the rich

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armandro
03/18/21 1:53:36 PM
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TroutPaste posted...
eat the rich
literally half of CE

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Tyranthraxus
03/18/21 1:54:24 PM
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armandro posted...
can you explain it in English?

A tankie is basically an apologist or atrocities-denier of various authoritarian communist states.

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pure_temper
03/18/21 1:55:05 PM
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a tankie is someone who unironically supports Mao, Stalin, Lenin.

the entire Great Leap Forward and the Soviet Union gulags. they reject the idea that the Holodomor was an intentional genocide or that tens of millions of people died because of fascists who co-opted Marxist or leftist ideas in order to just gain power when things collapsed because of instability.

make-pretend socialists, basically. people who are the opposite of MLK and Malcom X (post-Mecca)

They are called tankies because of Tiananmen Square in 1989 in China when they used literal tanks to crush innocent students (basically high schoolers and college students) to death. Google it, it's fucked up.

They don't care about life. Just State worship. State-sponsored atheism of a sort, except you really just worship the State.

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SuperShake666
03/18/21 1:55:40 PM
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armandro posted...
can you explain it in English?

Stalin and Mao did literally nothing wrong.

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Shablagoo
03/18/21 1:56:35 PM
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The term was originally created to describe British communists who supported the USSRs quelling of a fascist uprising in Hungary in the 1950s. More recently it has seen a less specific use of the term, referring to hardline authoritarian or MarxistLeninist positions on the left.


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armandro
03/18/21 1:56:36 PM
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pure_temper posted...
a tankie is someone who unironically supports Mao, Stalin, Lenin.

the entire Great Leap Forward and the Soviet Union gulags. they reject the idea that the Holodomor was an intentional genocide or that tens of millions of people died because of fascists who co-opted Marxist or leftist ideas in order to just gain power when things collapsed because of instability.

make-pretend socialists, basically. people who are the opposite of MLK and Malcom X (post-Mecca)

They are called tankies because of Tiananmen Square in 1989 in China when they used literal tanks to crush innocent students (basically high schoolers and college students) to death. Google it, it's fucked up.

They don't care about life. Just State worship. State-sponsored atheism of a sort, except you really just worship the State.
Thank you!
finally someone who can explain things

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TheMikh
03/18/21 1:56:44 PM
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metallica846 posted...
A liberal who wants our government to do stuff like invade Afghanistan and Iraq and impose our strength overseas.

you're thinking of neoliberals/neocons

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Broseph_Stalin
03/18/21 1:57:40 PM
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Questionmarktarius
03/18/21 1:58:25 PM
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pure_temper posted...
They are called tankies because of Tiananmen Square in 1989 in China when they used literal tanks to crush innocent students (basically high schoolers and college students) to death.
No not that.

Shablagoo posted...
The term was originally created to describe British communists who supported the USSRs quelling of a fascist uprising in Hungary in the 1950s.
That.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/4/newsid_2739000/2739039.stm
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pure_temper
03/18/21 1:59:21 PM
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TheMikh posted...
you're thinking of neoliberals/neocons

yup. neo-libs / neo-cons are just warhawk Clinton and Bush types who want war for profit and control. rather than using American wealth and military power to continue Pax Americana.

AOC and Bernie 2024

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FL81
03/18/21 2:00:16 PM
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auth-left internet edgelords

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Hayame Zero
03/18/21 2:01:51 PM
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The phrase "tankie" is kind of clever, ngl. That's what I initially thought it was referring to when I learned the definition.

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TheMikh
03/18/21 2:03:12 PM
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Shablagoo posted...
USSRs quelling of a fascist uprising in Hungary in the 1950s

had to look that up

apparently the allegations of fascism came from the ussr, and should probably be taken with a grain of salt

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Broseph_Stalin
03/18/21 2:06:19 PM
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you don't have to look up anything shab says you can just assume it's wrong
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pure_temper
03/18/21 2:07:03 PM
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FL81 posted...
auth-left internet edgelords

auth-left

fucking love that. alt-right, auth-left. two sides of same token. <3

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Questionmarktarius
03/18/21 2:08:46 PM
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pure_temper posted...
fucking love that. alt-right, auth-left. two sides of same token. <3
Last I remember, alt-right and ctrl-left was the joke.
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UnholyMudcrab
03/18/21 2:16:16 PM
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Shablagoo posted...
The term was originally created to describe British communists who supported the USSRs quelling of a fascist uprising in Hungary in the 1950s. More recently it has seen a less specific use of the term, referring to hardline authoritarian or MarxistLeninist positions on the left.

For the record, TC, tankies are the kind of people who call the Hungarian Revolution a fascist uprising. That's a line directly from the Soviet propaganda about the event.
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zombiexdeathx
03/18/21 2:17:25 PM
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the CCP and their supporters

those are the tankies

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Tyranthraxus
03/18/21 2:29:08 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
Last I remember, alt-right and ctrl-left was the joke.
Enlightened windows key-center

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TheMikh
03/18/21 2:31:29 PM
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zombiexdeathx posted...
the CCP and their supporters

those are the tankies

i thought they were called the 50 cent army (but not g-unit)

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1337toothbrush
03/18/21 2:35:53 PM
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It's another label used to divide the left so that any criticism of "centrists" can be dismissed with a single word.

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Questionmarktarius
03/18/21 2:36:23 PM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
Enlightened windows key-center
Avoid those people whenever possible, tho.
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ThePieReborn
03/18/21 2:37:02 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
Avoid those people whenever possible, tho.
I think we can all agree on this.

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Shablagoo
03/19/21 7:03:51 AM
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TheMikh posted...
the 50 cent army (but not g-unit)

xD

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Flauros
03/19/21 7:05:07 AM
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fuming
03/19/21 7:13:09 AM
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This is your typical example of a tankie.

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Shablagoo
03/19/21 7:18:16 AM
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^this is honestly the most accurate definition so far

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averagejoel
03/19/21 7:46:14 AM
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it depends a lot on who's using the word. usually it means "someone to the left of me" or "someone who approves of the soviet union more than me"

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Thdi373gduuw
03/19/21 7:46:58 AM
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YourLovelyTina posted...
it's just another stupid internet buzzword

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Dark_SilverX
03/19/21 7:48:24 AM
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A tankie is someone who likes to twerk and sniff hair.

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Choco
03/19/21 7:50:54 AM
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YourLovelyTina posted...
you know what, forget it

I don't know, and I don't really care
it's just another stupid internet buzzword like "simp"
then why make this topic?

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fuming
03/19/21 7:52:23 AM
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Choco posted...
then why make this topic?

they were just being tsundere
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Samurontai
03/19/21 7:53:31 AM
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A tankie is someone who goes to their baby siblings for lectures on economy

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SPE
03/19/21 7:55:42 AM
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pure_temper posted...
a tankie is someone who unironically supports Mao, Stalin, Lenin.

the entire Great Leap Forward and the Soviet Union gulags. they reject the idea that the Holodomor was an intentional genocide or that tens of millions of people died because of fascists who co-opted Marxist or leftist ideas in order to just gain power when things collapsed because of instability.

make-pretend socialists, basically. people who are the opposite of MLK and Malcom X (post-Mecca)

They are called tankies because of Tiananmen Square in 1989 in China when they used literal tanks to crush innocent students (basically high schoolers and college students) to death. Google it, it's fucked up.

They don't care about life. Just State worship. State-sponsored atheism of a sort, except you really just worship the State.

so basically shablagoo


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lemondrop7
03/19/21 8:01:13 AM
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Big Fat Tankie Tilkers

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Collat
03/19/21 8:31:19 AM
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Thought it was just CCP apologists.
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R1masher
03/19/21 8:33:30 AM
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Thought it was apparel, like a hoodie

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Choco
03/19/21 8:35:39 AM
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lemondrop7 posted...
Big Fat Tankie Tilkers
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ssjevot
03/19/21 8:37:38 AM
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Holy shit he just called a worker revolt led by socialists a fascist uprising? What a fucking joke.

Its claims were Hungary's independence from all foreign powers, a political system based on democratic socialism (land reform and public ownership in the economy), Hungary joining the United Nations and all freedom rights for the citizens of Hungary.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956

One of many worker revolts that occured in the USSR and its satellites. All of them were brutally suppressed. Taking away workers rights to unionize, strike, etc. is not socialism. Tankies are far closer to fascists than they are socialists.

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ssjevot
03/19/21 8:40:03 AM
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1337toothbrush posted...
It's another label used to divide the left so that any criticism of "centrists" can be dismissed with a single word.

Tankies aren't leftists. You can't be a leftist and oppose workers controlling the means of production or even having basic labor rights.

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1337toothbrush
03/19/21 9:05:40 AM
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ssjevot posted...
Tankies aren't leftists. You can't be a leftist and oppose workers controlling the means of production or even having basic labor rights.
Doesn't stop "centrists" from using it that way.

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ssjevot
03/19/21 9:07:27 AM
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1337toothbrush posted...
Doesn't stop "centrists" from using it that way.

Sure but it originates in the left and is commonly used in leftist communities to describe authoritarian state capitalists who call themselves socialist or communist. Shit most people in America thinks socialism means government doing stuff, so I would hardly worry about them not knowing what a tankie is.

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