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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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Fringe right and fringe left both make this conversation difficult (lemmy.myserv.one)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by OwenEverbinde@lemmy.myserv.one to c/tankiejerk@lemmy.world

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An 8-panel Phoebe Teaching Joey meme.

The first panel is Phoebe from Friends saying "Russia".

The second panel is Joey from the same show replying with "Russia".

The third panel is Phoebe saying "has invaded".

The fourth panel is Joey repeating back "has invaded".

The fifth panel is Phoebe saying "Ukraine".

The sixth panel is Joey repeating back "Ukraine".

The seventh panel is Phoebe saying the completed phrase "Russia has invaded Ukraine".

The final panel shows Joey proudly proclaiming "NATO just started a proxy war".

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[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Certainly, and I'd characterize it like this. If a bunch of Nazis want to go fight my enemy, I'm not going to stop them. No matter what happened, I win out.

[–] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah. Best case, they'll die in battle and there'll be fewer of them to deal with once the dust has settled. Worse case, they're fighting the enemy, making the fight easier for the rest.

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

And at the end of the day, we can still prosecute them for hate crimes. They can get a slightly more comfortable pillow in their cells in recognition of their service.