Its just another meaningless pejorative term usually used at leftists.
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sho@ani.social 1 month agoBeen wondering… what is a tankie?
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
VinesNFluff@pawb.social 1 month ago
Asshole (but left wing)
Hawke@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Authoritarian communists, especially those not native to such a state.
Currently it’s mainly the folks who believe China in particular can do no wrong. Historically it refers to supporters of the USSR in Britain
More recently it’s applied online especially to people who are knee-jerk anti-capitalist or anti-US, “if the US/‘west’/capitalism is wrong then anyone who opposes them must be right”
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie