• @knaak
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    62 years ago

    What’s a 196? What’s a tankie?

    • @KermitLeFrog
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      152 years ago

      196 is the subreddit that this community is based on. The only official rules are that you must post before you leave and you can’t be a bigot. It ends up basically like r/shitposting, except aggressively pro-LGBTQ instead of anti.

      A tankie is a leftist who thinks that Mao, Stalin, and Castro were cool.

    • @potatisgris
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      112 years ago

      A 196 is a meme sharing forum with the name 196. I don’t really know how to describe a tankie, but something like: a leftist person who glorifies autocracy and the use of force to make a leftist utopia.

      • @knaak
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        72 years ago

        Thanks. I guess that I am grateful that I don’t know about either of those things.

      • @Hylirica
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        62 years ago

        But if you force people in, it’s a prison, not a utopia…

      • @weirdwallace75
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        62 years ago

        A Utopia which viciously guards its borders to keep people from leaving.

    • @weirdwallace75
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      52 years ago

      Originally, tankies were Western Leftists who defended the USSR when it used literal tanks to crush popular revolutions in Czechoslovakia and Hungary.

    • @[email protected]
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      2 years ago

      «tankie» is a term used to describe communists who support or are critically supportive of so-called “authoritarian regimes” (AES (actual existing socialism) such as Cuba, the USSR, China, Vietnam, the DPRK, Laos, etc.) or their actions.

      • @knaak
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        52 years ago

        The guy driving the tank rather than standing in front of it.