I for one have stopped posting any content to lemmy.ml communities.

  • @[email protected]
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    -22 months ago

    The iconic Tiananmen square “Tank man” photo, where one guy stands in front of a column of tanks on their way to slaughter pro-democracy protesters, briefly stopping them. Tankies are lunatics that wish for authoritarian communism and so unironically support the tanks running him over.

    • @[email protected]
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      362 months ago

      Not the origin of the word.

      This dates back to Hungarian revolution in 1956 and tanks being deployed by USSR.

    • @masquenox
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      142 months ago

      Where the fuck do you libs get your misinformation from?

      That’s not where the term comes from.

    • OBJECTION!
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      2 months ago

      Lmao “running him over?” The video shows him walking away completely unscathed, after they let him into the tank to talk. The tanks were also leaving the square, not entering it. That’s also not where the term comes from.

      • @goldenlocks
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        82 months ago

        Libs will do literally zero research about something they build their entire identity around