• @KermitLeFrog@lemmy.world
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      151 year ago

      196 is the subreddit that this community is based on. The only official rules are that you must post before you leave and you can’t be a bigot. It ends up basically like r/shitposting, except aggressively pro-LGBTQ instead of anti.

      A tankie is a leftist who thinks that Mao, Stalin, and Castro were cool.

    • @potatisgris@lemmy.world
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      141 year ago

      A 196 is a meme sharing forum with the name 196. I don’t really know how to describe a tankie, but something like: a leftist person who glorifies autocracy and the use of force to make a leftist utopia.

    • @Faresh@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      «tankie» is a term used to describe communists who support or are critically supportive of so-called “authoritarian regimes” (AES (actual existing socialism) such as Cuba, the USSR, China, Vietnam, the DPRK, Laos, etc.) or their actions.

    • @weirdwallace75@lemmy.world
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      Originally, tankies were Western Leftists who defended the USSR when it used literal tanks to crush popular revolutions in Czechoslovakia and Hungary.