• regul@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    “Tankie” is when you don’t vote for a candidate who supports genocide.

    The state of the online “tankie” discourse has never been worse.

    • WillStealYourUsername
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      9 months ago

      They has a hammer and sickle in their username, a symbol most socialists have abandoned because of tankies.

        • Stovetop@lemmy.world
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          9 months ago

          I personally prefer the socialist rose over the hammer and sickle and the red star, however. Those sorts of symbols, to me at least, evoke the very agrarian-centric revolutions we associate with communism/socialism that came with the side effect of purging intellectuals (as in the USSR, DPRK, PRC, DK/Cambodia etc).

      • spujb@lemmy.cafe
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        9 months ago

        dude that’s literally not true plspls do the smallest of google searches before you post

    • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
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      9 months ago

      I once asked what someone meant by it and I got multiple replies from different people with distinct opposite definitions.