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What's a Tankie? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 hours ago by the_mighty_kracken@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I keep hearing the term in political discourse, and rather than googling it, I'm asking the people who know better than Google.

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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 10 points 7 hours ago

It really is adult name calling, and it further polarizes the political spectrum by naming every single fucking mindset and ideology combination you can think of. It's just not constructive at all.

We need to talk about ideas and issues and how we can understand and compromise for one another.