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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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What was your First encounter with a tankie? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Zstom6IP@lemmy.world to c/tankiejerk@lemmy.world

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Mine happened when i first made a reddit account, i got banned from a subreddit with a tankie moderator because i questioned the logic of having lenin as the subreddits profile, for a subreddit devoted to anti conservative memes.

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[–] fubo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

In college, some friends of mine were organizing for a Trotskyist group. A Stalinist group showed up uninvited on campus and spread the story that the Trotskyist group was a front for NAMBLA. The Stalinists were ejected for harassing students.