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What's a Tankie? (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 days 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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[โ€“] the_mighty_kracken@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Thank you for the reasonable reply that didn't attack my character for asking. Apparently, that's too much to ask of some people.

[โ€“] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

No worries! A lot of people get emotionally invested in drama, which is why tons of the definitions you've been given for "tankie" are people that don't actually exist. It's like saying "communist but boogieman." This creates the response from communists defending ourselves from slander, which is why this became a mess. Kinda like if you went into a random room and asked people what "woke" meant.

Lemmy has few conservatives (outside of instances like sh.itjust.works), so the biggest ideological conflict is communist vs liberal, with anarchists kinda doing their own thing and aligning more or less with the former or the latter.