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Wth are tankies?
Equivalent of "woke", but used by liberals. Generally meaning "people left of us that we don't like".
Not really. It's someone who claims to be liberal or progressive or a way left thinker willing to use force to make the world what they want
People who diminish or refute Tiananmen Square 1989 are tankies
Oh come on, we all know you mean communists. Why don't you just say commies?
Because tankies are next-level communists. So while all tankies are also commies, not all commies are tankies.
For me the biggest distinction is that I think commies are just naive and want to live in a fairy tale, tankies are actually malicious and want to fuck it up for all of us if we let them.