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  • wrestlingfan@onjase.quebectoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlWhat's a Tankie?
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    4 hours ago

    @the_mighty_kracken the term Tankie comes from members of the British Communist Party that continued to support the U.S.S.R. after they sent tanks to Communist Hungary. Supporting the authoritarian State in the name of leftism even when they aren’t acting very communally. Now a days it pretty much refers to ultra-authoritarian leftists. After years I still am not sure if lemmygrad.ml is actually made up mostly of tankies, or if it’s mostly normies pretending to be acting how tankies stereotypically act. You probably have seen it more on the 'verse because Lemmy was originally just one website lemmy.ml written by Marxist-Leninist who were banned from reddit. Even after adding ActivityPub support and federating across many instances the Lemmy community still, in general, has Marxists leanings. If there is one thing, we leftists love even more than talking about overthrowing capitalism, it’s calling other leftists names and claiming their version of socialism is went the capitalists are still in charge.