• MacroCyclo@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Not sure why you got downvoted. I don’t know what a tankie is, but the rest is spot on.

    • maynarkh@feddit.nl
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      1 year ago

      Tankie is a pejorative term for authoritarian communists, specifically people who think the systems of the USSR/China are something to aspire to. It is a term used since the 1960s to describe people who supported the USSR in using tanks to squash the Hungarian and Czechoslovak revolutions that aimed to create democratic communist systems.

      In practice however, tankies just tend to be anti US / anti West, and will support anything that is opposing them, such as the theocratic regime in Iran which is as far from communistic ideals as humanly possible. For further information, look at the Wikipedia article. If you wish to enter the zoo where we keep them, go to hexbear.net or lemmygrad.ml .

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        1 year ago

        Oh wow, now I understand why I disagree with them so much. Being communist is one thing, but being antidemocratic is a whole other thing. Thanks for the explanation!

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      1 year ago

      I can’t even see downvotes as I’m on kbin. I think I see the difference between up- and downvotes which should be at +9 at the moment.

      Tankies are basically communists that are mainly anti west to the point that they support autocratic countries like china and north Korea.