nowadays tankie just means someone who shills for china/russia with a communist background
this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2024
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It means "anyone who does not immediately believe the most lurid rumors about the Bad Countries"
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I have actually found the “tankie” moniker to be useful IRL:
Tell someone you’re a Marxist-Leninist and you just get a blank stare.
Tell someone you’re a socialist and they think you mean you’re simpatico with AOC and Bernie.
Tell someone you’re a communist and they will just shut down and not hear anything else you say.
But “tankie” seems to convey enough truth - that you support past and current efforts from AES states to build socialism - to be useful.
I have a hard time imagining anyone who would stop listening at "communist" but not "tankie"
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The first time I saw this word being used was here on Lemmy, when I arrived during the reddit exodus. I'm not a native English speaker though.
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If you don't have an opinion on it, you might when you learn the fascists were putting chalk marks on the doors of communists and jews