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My understanding is that PieFed gives you access to everything on Lemmy without directly supporting tankies.
Tankies imo is such a creepy new word that came out of nowhere. Do real people actually use this word?
It's a word with a long history, originating from the 1950's. It was used by leftists to quickly describe authoritarian leftists who supported Stalinism and dictatorship of the state through violent ends in the name of Communism.
It's a very online word, but it is absolutely used outside of the context of the Fediverse.
I would be very confused if someone said the word to me in-person, even after seeing it on Lemmy or Reddit.
Its like the first time I heard the word woke. What the hell are these people on or talking about?
The fuck kinda misinformation is this?
Tankies has been a word used by those of us on the left to describe the authoritarian leftists who supported the Soviet's sending in tanks to kill student protesters in Hungary in 1956. Oh and it's not new, we've been saying it for 70 years.
I've never seen or heard a person in real life call someone a tankie, its seemingly exclusively used online.
Do you ever see many people in real life support brutal dictatorships killing citizens?
I've never seen a Nazi in person, but I sure as fuck aren't going to pretend they don't exist. I do hang out in leftist groups in real life and see many tankies and have heard the term used in person.
I have unfortunately seen Nazis in person yes.
All of my friends are left or at least "liberal" and only the ones actually invested in politics have even heard the term tankie.
I have used both tankie and vatnik (ватник?) directly and unironically, both face-to-face and online.