this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2024
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Dunking on Tankies from a leftist perspective.

A tankie is someone who defends/supports authoritarian or even totalitarian regimes who call themselves "socialist". The term originated from people supporting the 1956 invasion of Hungary by the Soviet Union. Nowadays they are just terminally online, denying genocides, and falling for totalitarian propaganda and calling such regimes "true democracies". remember to censor usernames when necessary.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think this is either russian troll or someone who bought into their propaganda

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Tankies almost always buy into the propaganda of foreign powers. I don't think they're a troll, just legitimately part of a community that reinforces very vile and incorrect beliefs.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't think they're a troll

Russia literally pays for army of trolls writing and spreading their propaganda on social media in almost the entire EU. I've seen their posts in Polish social media - initial non controversial post, fake upvotes then smearing campaign in the comments - their're doing this world wide. It seems that tankies are specifically vulnerable to this.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

Oh, they're definitely parroting the propaganda peddled by Russian trolls, I just think they themselves are in good faith with their insanity.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

I'm still convinced the tankie communities are like 20% actual people and the rest just bots or AI models.

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

"All the propaganda you have consumed uncritically," juxtaposed with, "the camps have done nothing but improve Uyghurs' lives!"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nice chunky responses. good trolling 7/10

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Excellent. Best I've seen. 5/7.

10/7 with rice.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why are you blacking out yoghtos username?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago
  1. Who?

  2. Please be sure to obscure usernames on posts to prevent doxxing.

  3. Just doesn't feel right, leaving usernames out in the open like that.