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I'm pretty good at picking things up from context, so I'm gonna say a tankie is someone opposed to the deployment of tanks against a captive civilian population, the police having tanks, and tanks' worth of tear gas being used on peaceful protestors?

(please don't reply with earnest answers to my question, thx)

EDIT - some of y'all are failing to follow this last instruction smdh

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[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

During WWII, USSR armor crews, in their patriotic zeal to defeat Nazism, voluntarily took estrogen which was thought (and was later proven) to increase combat capabilities. These trans supersoldiers were the first to liberate Berlin. Thus we to this day call estrogen tank-E in their memory

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago

Red Army tanks enter Berlin:

gayroller-2000

[–] supafuzz@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

a tankie is an otherkin who identifies as a tank

An aquarium and terrarium enthusiast. I have 3 lizards so I'm a huge tankie.

[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm passionate about water conservation and I'll never hear the end of it

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Me getting noticeably irate when someone offers me a bottle of water. (They don't know I'm about to soapbox for the next four minutes.)

[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

A water bottle is just a little tank! /s

[–] redladadriver@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The classic explanation (at least how it ends up being used)...

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

The people in the picture are

Row 1: Neslon Mandela, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Ho Chi Minh, Assata Shakur, Angela Davis

Row 2: Huey P. Newton, Thomas Sankara, Amílcar Cabral, W. E. B. Du Bois

Row 3: Kwame Ture, Paul Robeson, Leila Khaled, Malcolm X, Yuri Kochiyama, Fred Hampton

I knew most of these figures from before, but there were a few where I knew the name but not the face, or the face but not the name, or had never heard of them at all.

[–] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Originally, tankie was a derogatory term for people who defended the deployment of tanks against civilians but the term has lost its meaning over time. Now, you'll get called a tankie for merely saying that China isn't the evil boogieman that fascists want us to believe it is. And the irony is that the libs calling us tankies are the ones who support Israel's genocide of Palestine.

[–] casskaydee@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] bumpusoot@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

A redsails bot really is long overdue, time to look into how Lemmybots work

[–] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's short for 'TrueYankee' and refers to members of /r/yankee who left in disgust for it's insufficient patriotic bloodlust and broke off to form their own sub

[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

Totally Awesome Nice Kids

[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

It's the phonetic spelling of Tank-E. Which refers to the large tanks of estrogen we all have on our backs to breathe and sometimes turn everybody trans.

[–] D61@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

spoilerIts what happens when you eat too many beans too fast, you become a "gas" tankie

spoilerIts when you dump all your points into defense and endurance, you can "tankie" all the damage from the aggro.

spoilerIts where all your poo and pee go when you don't have city sewage and you flush the toilet, the "septic" tankie

spoilerIts a cute way to describing a large container for holding water for livestock, a "stock" tankie.

[–] glans@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

i heard on a podcast that police abolition is definitely tankie

which made me too wonder what the tanks were for

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

a tankie is someone who constantly complains about being called a tankie

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago