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What's your definition of tankie? (lemm.ee)
submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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This is something I always get in arguments about, whenever I use the word tankie hexbear and grad users argue that its just a term for socialists.

I've always just used it to referr to authoritarian communists, i.e, people who unironically support modern russia, and/or oppose ukraine, and think nothing happened to the uyghurs.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Pretty much this. I see a lot of arguments that their support of russia is "critical support" but there's no criticism of it in their discussions. Being against the western imperialism, it seems, automatically grants a country a title of "lesser evil" and everything it does gets conveniently glossed over.

That said, I can't in good faith assert that everyone or even majority of the users on so-called "tankie triad" instances are tankies. It's more that the tankies have a loud presence there that isn't moderated. Most of the people from hexbear and .ml I've interacted with have been polite and rational in explaining their worldview.