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[Serious] Can someone explain what a "tankie" is? (self.askbeehaw)

submitted 2 years ago by star_nova to c/askbeehaw

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I'm very OOTL when it comes to a lot of the major divides in online communities because thankfully I've managed to avoid most of the arguing. I've noticed a lot of instances say "no tankies" as one of their first rules and figured this might be the only place I could get a real answer.

Was there something specific they did to piss off everyone? If I had to take a shot in the dark, are they just people who are really pro-military?

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[–] Notnotmike 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I've found most use it to just refer to any communists at this point

[–] Running_Out_Of_Ideas 19 points 2 years ago

People who use it that way are dipsticks, but I'm not surprised.

Dubcek was a communist, and so were most of those oppressed by the Soviet forces from which Tankies get their name.

There is a wild world of difference between the person who's like "Karl Marx was correct, but the USSR did a lot of extremely horrible things," and the kind of creep who openly stans Xi Jinping and Stalin.

[–] fades 5 points 2 years ago

Makes sense tbh, these days far too many people don’t know the difference between communism and socialism. They just know there are negative connotations and use that to do the rest of the work