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What is a tankie?
Since we're counting to ten:
Classic tankies are the authoritarian leaning communists, that is communists willing to use (military) power to accomplish their goals and will voice those more aggressive sounding opinions.
Ah, thank you!
No, that's not true. Authoritarians can't be communist, because communism is stateless. You mean authoritarian socialists.
The nationalists hanging around in leftist spaces
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To me seems to be people that think that the evil imperialist actions of countries that claim(ed) to be Communist are excused by the evil imperialist actions of the USA.
Got it, thank you!
Radical centrists who want a form of socialism where everyone is oppressed by the state, thereby combining the ideas of the left and the right.
That sounds.... terrible.
They claim to be the only real leftists, because communism requires putting down revolutions with tanks and supporting genocidal dictators. They call it "the dictatorship of the proletariat", where proletariat means worker. They think a dictatorship can be leftist.
How many of them ate paint chips as children?
I think Wikipedia's description is good: "Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof."
You're about to get 10 different answers, most would say
Any user from the Lemmygrad and Hexbear instances, and some from Lemmy.ml
Genocide deniers
Pro-Russia and pro-China users
I think it's just a derogatory term for anyone that's anti-imperialism/liberalism
Nah we anti-imperialists don't fit in to that
See, I don't even know. The term is used so broadly. It's basically just "Lemmy users I don't like"
Got it, thank you!
I have never seen a tankie oppose liberalism. I've seen plenty of tankies say they oppose liberalism, but then they act like liberals. It's very confusing.
People who support real communism. Think the USSR and Communist China. They're called tamkies because they used tanks to kill civilians.
How exactly do you define this?
Well obviously it's only real communism if being gay is illegal and the government sells lumber and steel to Nazi Germany to use in weapons.
They weren’t civilians, they were fascist counter-revolutionary gangs who wanted to reinstate a Austro-Hungarian monarchy.
Thank you!