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Kick tankies out of 196 (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 11 months ago by Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Remember kids, Tankies wants to undermine democracy - same as facists.

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[-] r9seng@lemm.ee 35 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm not sure anyone knows what a tankie is.

Apparently saying any country other than the US should take a turn at world leadership is a tankie opinion.

[-] Kythtrid@sh.itjust.works 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I've seen "Tankie" pulled out on Lemmy and Reddit over things like:

Suggesting a revolution is required to stop global capitalism, and that we cannot vote our way out of Capitalism
Countering common narratives that paint US Geopolitical Adversaries and Existing Socialist/Communist regimes as comically evil villains.
Criticizing the western perspective on the Russia/Ukraine conflict, and by extension criticism of Ukraine, or praise for Russia
Suggesting that violence against Nazis is ok

I mostly get the impression that people don't like violence, and dislike the idea that capitalism may need to be opposed through violence. Though I've also seen it thrown out at suggestions that capitalism should even be defeated at all. It feels like a poison tbh, we really should just be uniting against capitalism.

[-] CatradoraSomething@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago

so tankie is just a nonsense word?

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It can be misused, but it properly means supporting authoritarian 'communism'. I usually see it on hexbear, where they often say Russia China and North Korea are vastly better than western countries.

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