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
    -4•1 month ago

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

    • Flying Squid
      7•1 month ago

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

      • @mydude
        -2•1 month ago

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

        • Flying Squid
          7•1 month 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•1 month ago

            I like to challenge ideas.

              • @mydude
                -4•1 month 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•1 month ago

                  You really think the word sexism has no meaning anymore?

                  Do you think the same about racism?

                • @[email protected]OPMEnglish
                  6•1 month 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.