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• Snowclone@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Authoritarian Communism or Socialism. They are generally in favor of a strong military and central state government that projects power and maintains social order, and ideally social progress through strict law and order methods people who look at Mao and Stalin as necessary or a net gain at least, hopefully they aren’t into Pol Pot’s methodology, as it was clear his primary objective was to constantly purge his own supporters while trying to starve and kill anyone that wasn’t a multi generational rice farmer of strictly Cambodian ethnicity or identity. But Pol Pot isn’t like totally out of pocket for what they’d like to see happen either. So yeah. Authoritarian Communism or Socialism, police state, rolling tanks over disodances. Hence Tankies.

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  • transitinoir@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They are not called tankies because of rolling tanks though

    The term “tankie” was originally used by dissident Marxist–Leninists to describe members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) who followed the party line of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Specifically, it was used to distinguish party members who spoke out in defence of the Soviet use of tanks to suppress the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the 1968 Prague Spring, or who more broadly adhered to pro-Soviet positions.[6][7]

    From Wikipedia

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    • Imhotep@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      wdym?

      who spoke out in defence of the Soviet use of tanks

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  • teslasaur@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Thank you!

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• Imhotep@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Do you actually don’t know, or is this step one of a contrarian about to start their brilliant exposé?

  Lets assume this is sincere and you don’t have access to a search engine: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

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  • teslasaur@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m asking since i was wondering what they meant by it. Have seen the word but never bothered to look it up, and instead of infering the meaning I asked.

    Don’t use Wikipedia as a source if you want to come off as serious. Thats like, middle school level knowledge, at least in our schools. You still haven’t told me, and I guess that i’ll find several definitions, cause that’s usually how it goes.

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    • Imhotep@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Don’t use Wikipedia as a source if you want to come off as serious. Thats like, middle school level knowledge, at least in our schools.

      I was spot on.

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      • teslasaur@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        About being condescending? Yes, you are. You showed what level you’re on by sending a Wikipedia link.

        You’re like one of those troglodytes that answer a question with a lmgtfy-link unsarcastically.

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    • ShrimpCurler@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Wikipedia is probably the most trustworthy source around. It can be wrong so you should still verify it if you want to be sure. But, I don’t think there’s another site with a large amount of knowledge that is so consistently accurate.

      What you should have learned from school is that you don’t cite it in your papers, because it’s not the original source for anything. But, you definitely should be using it for your research and using it’s citations to go deeper.

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      • teslasaur@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Wikipedia is probably the most trustworthy source around. It can be wrong so you should still verify it if you want to be sure.

        Absolutely disagree on it being a trustworthy source, it is a collection of links to potential sources. I’m trying to verify by asking, but instead i get some lecture about how sources work. I still haven’t gotten an answer other than a Wikipedia-link, which isn’t a source. If i wanted to i could go in to the page and change the meaning to whatever i want. In a fast changing language climate, i’d like to hear what others mean by what they say. Especially since i didn’t know the term and what i thought it meant was contradictory to the meme.

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