• BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
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    16 hours ago

    Uh, yes they are?

    Tankie just means anyone to the left of the US Overton window.

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      8 hours ago

      Wikipedia

      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. More specifically, the term has been applied to those who express support for one-party Marxist–Leninist socialist republics, whether contemporary or historical. It is commonly used by anti-authoritarian leftists, including anarchists, libertarian socialists, left communists, democratic socialists and reformists to criticise Leninism, although the term has seen increasing use by liberal and right‐wing factions as well.

      The only time I’ve seen it be applied to anarchists is when Reddit libs don’t like anyone left of them doing stuff like protesting, but normally the Wikipedia definition is how I see the word used.

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          30 minutes ago

          So people who don’t support modern Russia aren’t tankies? You’d better tell all the fucking shitlibs here that.

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        3 hours ago

        Have shitlibs like you ever read anything other than Wikipedia? Serious question.

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          1 hour ago

          I didn’t say the definition was correct because Wikipedia says so, I said that’s how the word is normally defined, and the Wikipedia definition (which was the first thing that popped up) aligns with my experiences with how I’ve seen the word used. So when you say the word “tankie” includes anarchists, I’m wondering whose definition or what reasoning are you pulling from.

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              18 minutes ago

              I’ve read comments from people who start with a confusing statement seeming to use definitions of words that aren’t commonly accepted and when asked to explain their definition resort to ad hominem and topic switching rather than defending their point that their definition is a commonly accepted use of that word.