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[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago (2 children)

"Tankie" is when you don't vote for a candidate who supports genocide.

The state of the online "tankie" discourse has never been worse.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

They has a hammer and sickle in their username, a symbol most socialists have abandoned because of tankies.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

socialists have not abandoned the most universally recognized leftist symbol lmao

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I personally prefer the socialist rose over the hammer and sickle and the red star, however. Those sorts of symbols, to me at least, evoke the very agrarian-centric revolutions we associate with communism/socialism that came with the side effect of purging intellectuals (as in the USSR, DPRK, PRC, DK/Cambodia etc).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

dude that’s literally not true plspls do the smallest of google searches before you post

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I once asked what someone meant by it and I got multiple replies from different people with distinct opposite definitions.