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[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I'd love for you to explain exactly what you mean by "tankie"

[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Tankies are people who main Roadhog, Reinhardt or DVa

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think it means someone who likes doing whippets, not sure why they're bringing it up here tho

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

That's a wook.

Tankie Is a guy that likes propane over charcoal.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's always just leftists who aren't western brand "leftists", i.e. completely averse to action and change.

Libs will demonize all forms of action and analysis of oppression and then wonder why things just keep getting worse despite them doing a lot of useless, performative things. In the lack of a correct theory, it always comes down to "it's those damn Asians!!!!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Nah, we both know what I mean, don't try to sealion this. You can fuck off back to Hexbear.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago

The point is it tankie is an amorphous McCarthyist insult. No one knows exactly what you're saying because most of the people who use it aren't on exactly the same page. I've been called a tankie for supporting Cuba's new family code and the intensely democratic process behind it and for saying the taean work system is a good system.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

"Woke" on foreign policy...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

We really don't know. Unless your definition is someone who supported the Soviet Union sending in tanks to put down the coup in Hungary, then its pretty devoid of meaning

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

buddy, we're already on Hexbear, that's how federation works

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

There are 2 types:

  1. Marxist-Leninist - followers of the ideology of the Stalinist counter-revolution. These people are still around but are barely relevant anymore since the fall of the USSR.

  2. Terminally online leftoid who thinks they're a Marxist-Leninist, is really just a soc-dem who hates America and likes soviet aesthetics. Believes a ton of mutually contradictory shit because they don't take communism seriously and get all their info from memes and other terminally online leftoids.