It’s kind of interesting how under an anti-CIA post, some of the first associations ppl make is “man the USA is bad but have you heard of them tankies? I hate those ppl”
Like no one even said anything about revisionists or wannabe MLs lol.
The word tankie doesn’t even mean anything anymore
To be honest, I only see this in posts like oop, where it’s clear that it’s astroturfed. Maybe it’s the circles that I am in, but every time I see the word used in a wild, it’s always used more or less correctly
rly? From my perception it’s a rare case that it’s used coherently.
And as I said more often than not just as a “someone to the left of me” or “someone I don’t like”- type slur
It’s kind of interesting how under an anti-CIA post, some of the first associations ppl make is “man the USA is bad but have you heard of them tankies? I hate those ppl”
Like no one even said anything about revisionists or wannabe MLs lol.
The word tankie doesn’t even mean anything anymore
How about “selfish accelerationist asshole larping communism to advocate for imperialisms that aren’t the West’s”?
That’s one of the few good definitions tbh
However, most of the time liberals or so called social democrats/democratic socialists just say ‘tankie’ to everyone to the left of them
To be honest, I only see this in posts like oop, where it’s clear that it’s astroturfed. Maybe it’s the circles that I am in, but every time I see the word used in a wild, it’s always used more or less correctly
rly? From my perception it’s a rare case that it’s used coherently.
And as I said more often than not just as a “someone to the left of me” or “someone I don’t like”- type slur