Hope y’all are happy with NSPM-7…
Edit: thanks for the down votes, can’t wait for the mods here to delete this, sorry for getting it off my chest, I guess y’all will be happy with the ‘tankies’ being rounded up by a fascist state…
Well you know if tankies had voted or not voted for Jill Stein, they’d be taken more serious. But they keep wanting to die on the Gaza hill with moral superiority, not focusing on all of the other horrific shit their righteousness has allowed.
Also, Trump’s attacks on the left are because he needs a scapegoat.
I voted blue… The only elections that 3rd parties can build momentum with are local elections and slowly building up to national representation.
And tankies continue to removed more about liberals than the far-right nazis actually destroying society.
Lol, lmao even. Guess you’re just gonna ignore the reason I made this post, NSPM-7…
What is a tankie?
Think maga, but somehow “socialist” and really, really likes China (and usually Russia) and will wave away any negative points about them. Overall, pretty annoying.
Edit: For more examples, just read the OP’s comments. Not even joking, they’re pretty decent examples of how tankies talk, if you see them outside of their native habitat (ie .ml).
Once more, but in your best David Attenborough voice.
“Here we have the common Tankie, one of Lemmy’s more interesting denizens. Watch as they futility claim the superiority of communist China and rage at any mention that their utopian ideal has even a pastina of tarnish…”
pastina
It’s got a nice rigatoni sheen.
Oh wow, hadn’t even noticed that autocorrect messed that up.
:D :D
An authoritarian “communist.”
The term originated in England, after the USSR sent in tanks to crush the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. Those who supported the USSR - who believed that people should be forced to submit to a “communist” system under threat of death at the hands of an authoritarian government - were, and still are, called “tankies.”
Pro-China/Russia/NK trolls who are only capable of black and white thinking, and bad faith arguments. “Oh look, here is one single, specific subject in which the USA has done a bad job, while China has done a good job. See western liberals, China is a superior nation.”
They completely ignore that any country is capable of doing good things, and bad things, despite how evil said country may or may not be.
They have a copy paste playbook they share with each other, with replies such as “you’re wrong because western propaganda.”
Better to not waste time, block them, and never look back.
Internet slang for a communist.
Not just a communist. A tankie is a person who says they like leftist policy and ideals but then go on to honor authoritarians who used leftist language to secure their power. See: leninism, maoism, all the fools constantly praising China while crapping on the US, all the fools sucking off the USSR even though it was never socialist…
They’re generally immature and under-educated buffoons who think they like leftist policy but still have such a pathetically tiny understanding of authority, governance, and policy that they’ll praise authoritarians in one breath and claim to actually be an anarchist in the next.
My 30 year old son told me the same thing. Asked me when I will grow up
I love getting called uneducated by people who used to hold the same position as I did in the past. The only reason I don’t still believe what they do, is because of my critical thinking skills and access to a library card…
It took me 40 years of reading thousands of books and even more newspaper articles to get to where I am now.
And yet somehow those supposed critical thinking skills and that access to a library card apparently completely failed to clue you in to the simple fact that communism and authoritarianism are mutually exclusive.
Umm no, I actually read theory and primary sources, not just capitalist propaganda and hearsay, nice try though…
Care to share those titles?
Despite what you say it is still internet slang for a commie, facts don’t care about your feelings…
Problem here is the tankies so derided here have feelings that don’t care about facts.
These are folks who consider China, N. Korea, and Russia to be ideal havens of the workers, regardless of any contrasting data.
I’ve never once heard a tankie espouse those ideas except in regards to China, which is a haven for workers compared to the USA…
Am actual tankie and endorse this message, seriously.
For everyone who is upset by that, eff off and go back to singing Kumbaya for your strength of soul
Yeah and the liberals will still down vote the post cause it hurts their feelings.
Seems like you are the one with hurt feelings. Your tone is cunty, that’s why you are being down voted. With that said, divided we fall. Liberals aren’t your enemy, it’s the billionaires.
