• @[email protected]
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      173 days ago

      People that Stan authoritarian countries. The term comes from when the USSR crushed liberation movements with tanks in the Republics and many western communists approved of the crushing. People who love China, Russia, Assad’s Syria, etc are tankies.

    • OBJECTION!
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      93 days ago

      Derogatory term accusing someone of being a communist/Marxist.

      • @[email protected]
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        112 days ago

        More specifically, Stalinist/Maoist/any-other-„communist“-tyrant-ist. It refers specifically to people who excuse/deny tyranny and oppression caused by anyone who calls themselves communist.

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          -12 days ago

          As I said, communists/Marxists. Marx was an “authoritarian” socialist, and by far the largest strain of Marxism in the world is “Stalinism,” aka Marxism-Leninism, the second largest probably being Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.

          And, as I said, it’s derogatory, which suggests the people saying it view such strains of thought as “tyrannical.” So no part of your correction was at all necessary.

      • @cm0002
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        -12 days ago

        No, it’s specifically authoritarian communists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

        Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof.

        • @abbotsbury
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          32 days ago

          The term is used outside that scope frequently.

    • @cm0002
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      02 days ago

      Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

      Just avoid the Tankie Triad (.ml, hex and grad) and you’ll be fine

        • @cm0002
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          52 days ago

          Nah the domain admin (unfortunately) eventually showed up and reclaimed it before the auction could complete. It’s been restored and they actually added additional admins to the domain console this time :(

    • @[email protected]
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      02 days ago

      Corpo speak for communist originally, but now just used for most left-leaning people. Sucks though because I used it endearingly and now it’s used for center-left people who are far from communist :(