I know for a lot of people a tankie is just something that they know it when they see it, however I think that it is important to think about the reason that you define something as being tankie vs just a leftist.

  • @mydude
    -5•4 days ago

    Someone I don’t like is a tankie or racist or literal hitler /s

    • Flying Squid
      7•4 days ago

      Weird, the people I usually see calling others Hitler are the Tankies.

      • @mydude
        -2•4 days ago

        It’s just name calling. The words have lost their meaning. “It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”

        • Flying Squid
          7•4 days ago

          No, no it isn’t. I have given a very concise description of a Tankie elsewhere in this post. Perhaps you should read it.

          • @mydude
            -3•4 days ago

            I like to challenge ideas.

            • fxomtEnglish
              7•4 days ago

              What “ideas” are you here to challenge? This is a libertarian socialist community that is against tankies, if you don’t fit that criteria then this isn’t a good place for you.

              • @mydude
                -4•4 days ago

                I like libertarian socialists, I might be one myself. I just think that the word tankie gets thrown around a lot. If everyone (I don’t like) is a tankie, no one is.

                Let me put it this way; If Bernie is a sexist (and he was called sexist many times from different groups of people), then everyone can be called a sexist, and the word has lost it’s meaning.

                • Flying Squid
                  8•4 days ago

                  You really think the word sexism has no meaning anymore?

                  Do you think the same about racism?

                • fxomtEnglish
                  6•4 days ago

                  It is still a real term, and it is a problem.

                  It can be thrown around by liberals sometimes but most tankie criticizers ARE leftist in my experience. This place is one of them, and if someone disagrees with basic leftist sentiment us mods will take action.

                • @[email protected]OPMEnglish
                  6•4 days ago

                  I feel you may have misjudged this group then. That is part of why I made this post to try and get a consensus as to what the people of this community define as tankies and it is surprisingly consistent for something that you claim has lost all meaning.