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It's exhausting... (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It means: "Leftist" Who defends/supports regimes like Russia and China, and their use of Tanks to suppress thier opposition, hence the term.

It gets bandied about on Lemmy like crazy because theres a crazy amount of Tankies on Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It means: “Leftist” Who defends/supports regimes like Russia and China, and their use of Tanks to suppress thier opposition, hence the term.

LOL. Joe-bob over there thinks it means anyone who supports authoritarian & statist leftism but Sue-Ann thinks it means anybody who supports anti-Western states with a socialist history. Bubba and 8627of his friends just use it to mean, practically speaking, "leftists I think I disagree with but don't really know because this is Lemmy and I never bothered to ask".

Edit: or in other words, QED