inb4 just another alt of the same dude you already banned 10 times
this post was submitted on 28 Dec 2025
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At least signing up for Lemmy is kind of a pain in the ass lol
everyone knows there's just one tankie on the web and he has a thousand accounts 😆
While replying and thanking himself for making such an awesome argument and being such a positive role model in a way that would make it awkward in any social setting.
That’s what you get with “the public” aka “the plebs” aka “hoi polloi”, regardless of where and when. The public is scary and Other
The Rabble
rabbling intensifies
You forgot "the great unwashed".
Tankies are faaaaaaar better than the alternative. You know who
Kinda comparing turds to diarrhea if you ask me.
Tankies are the reason why Lemmy exists buddy. But then we all know that tankies is basically a liberal version if the word "Woke".
Tankies are authoritarians. They twist the good ethos of communism and socialism into self-serving hierarchy. That's why we don't like tankies.
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Why is there an exclamation mark in a triangle on the person's face in the first image
Cause they got banned
Ahh ok, makes sense.
Thought it was a censor because of some sort of trigger warning
I don't know how it is on other apps but in Jerboa banned users have that symbol next to their name.
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When did season 17 come out?!
The tankies?
Those who literally deny the existence of the massacre in the Tiananmen Square, claiming that "nobody was killed" (or far more rarely, unapologetically stating that if they were, then they deserved it). Basically far-left extremists that exist in a world of "alternative facts" just like conservatives, the common denominator being that and simping for authoritarian regimes.
Words like "consent" tend not to matter to those holding that ideology.
"Tankie" does not come from Tiananmen Square, that is a common misconception. The term "tankie" is 33 years older than the Tiananmen Square massacre.
It originated to describe people who supported the 1956 Soviet Union military intervention in Hungary. Stalin sent in a bunch of T-35 tanks to crush the Hungarian Revolution. He was successful, and thousands of people died in the process.
Ever since then, "tankie" has been used as a derogatory term against Stalinists, Marxist-Leninists, communists, and leftists in general.
To be fair, tanks seem to be a favored tool of these oppressive regimes. I'm personally not against communism, they have some good ideas like universal child care, guaranteed jobs, and housing (even though the latter may be considered sub-par by some). The problem comes when these fucking authoritarian cheerleaders come out and say communist governments were never oppressive.
I'm personally not against communism, they have some good ideas like universal child care, guaranteed jobs, and housing (even though the latter may be considered sub-par by some).
Tankies never seem to get that that part is not being critized, but the subversive of the movement by authoritarians.
Extremists like to use "alternative facts" or whatever other tactics achieve their goals. The means does not matter to them, only the ends, which they feel self-righteously justifies anything to achieve.
And then separately from that, gullible people also exist too. It is a bias that we all could fall prey to, though some of us seem more on guard against it than others.
(Tbf, many of those claiming those alternative facts are quite aware of just how nonfactual they actually are - they simply do not care as power, rather than correctness, is all that there is to them.)
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Thats a really interesting bit of history, thank you for the additional context
I don't think it is a common misconception, I think it's pretty common knowledge (at least among the terminally online) that it started with the Hungarian Revolution.
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The term mostly had been invoked by anti-authoritarian leftists derisively toward anyone who still supported the Soviet Union. In time, the usage generalized to apply broadly to authoritarian leftists, such as Marxist-Lenininsts (or Stalinists).
Now is it largely misused by liberals to designate anyone strongly critical of Western imperialism, which includes everyone from anarchists to campists.
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I have so many questions. I guess I never viewed as "tankie" as left.
Hell, I consider myself far-left to the point of being a progressive, almost to the point of being an anarchist.
But my reality is rooted in actual facts.
Tiananmen denial is hardly the only qualification for the term. That's an example of typical behavior, not the definition.
It's also far from the worst thing red fascists have done so it's just so weird how hard people focus on it. At least talk about gulags and kulaks sometimes, damn
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Basically far-left
we need a better topological geometry for these concepts, especially for these wacky edgecase fuckers like tankies. yeah, far left, like, you stand here, I'm going to move to your left until I've come around on the other side of the planet far far far far away left.
imho the vast majority of them are ccp click patriots waiting for the taiwan invasion to kick off.
Hehe, somebody was way ahead of you there...
haha this is fascinating
It seems to work so well 😁
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It’s a pejorative used for anti-leftist authoritarians who unironically insist their extreme-rightist ideals are somehow leftist.
Ooh they hated that one
They usually do.
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