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What's a Tankie? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day 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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[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 10 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Typically it refers to leftists who strongly defend/advocate for authoritarian statist approaches to socialism/communism.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's what Liberals call a person who opposes genocide

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Anyone ideologically left of Richard Nixon according to our local blue conservatives.

[–] SippyCup@lemmy.ml 9 points 21 hours ago

Nixon was a tankie according to them. He's responsible for the EPA and OSHA.

Left of Reagan.

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[–] anoriginalthought@lemmy.ml 4 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

A leftist. Someone with political beliefs, empathy, and conviction.

[–] BussyCat@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago (11 children)

Not all leftists are tankies the same way not all right wingers are fascists. A tankie is an authoritarian leftist

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[–] redhilsha@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

When a South Asian calls the British monarchy fascist or Churchill a genocider in my experience.

[–] mukt@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Isn't monarchy already a bigger bad word in itself than fascism?

[–] redhilsha@lemmy.ml 8 points 23 hours ago

Not according to the Yakubians over at the miserable island.

[–] anoriginalthought@lemmy.ml 2 points 20 hours ago

I actually always wondered a bit about the line between fascism and monarchism. To the casual observer they might seem nearly identical, though I wonder if in historical materialist terms it's a reactionary attempt to backslide to feudalism rather than progress capitalism to socialism.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 day ago

A size of tank, smaller than normal tank, but bigger than tankette.

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

OP, what have you unleashed.

[–] the_mighty_kracken@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I just thought this was where you came to ask questions.

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 day ago

It is, I'm just kidding around. Your question was innocent enough, it's just that the comments look like a battlefield.

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