A tankie is someone who supports the CCP or unironically supports the USSR/Russia. They’re generally authoritarian leftists. The term tankie comes from the tanks used to crush people at Tianamen Square
Not really leftists. Just anti western.
actually it came from when the USSR sent tanks to Hungary to keep down a workets revolution against the Soviet backed regime in the mid-twentieth century. Origanally it was used as a description for divisions in the British communist party between those who felt a global [Soviet backed] communist plan, versus those who supported independent worker collectives democratically deciding their own direction.
Now-a-days it is used to describe anyone who supports leftists authoritarian regimes, whether it be China, or people who act like Russia is secretly Communists, etc. Or just an insult from one leftist against anothet leftist. Like one U.S. southerner insulting another by calling him a liberal.
Many fedizens refer to lemmygrad.ml as a tankie instance, for example.
Thank you! I had no idea.
Ah! That makes sense. Thank you!
Used to be commies. But now they’re just edgelords who tow the line for authoritarian regimes, and hate the west.
no you shouldn’t. Outside of leftist circles it has no meaning.
