They then complain and call everything they hate tankie
It's the dunk tank.
This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.
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Linker–anyone to the left or right of me is a Tankie–baan
https://lemmy.world/search?creatorId=3867209&q=tankie
This has to be a bit, or the worms have replaced the brain.
Their bespoke definition is:
It’s been pointed out to them that “tankie” predates the Tiananmen riots by a generation, but they persist with their pet definition, which literally no one shares.
Mostly they seem to use it to mean anyone who has in any way supported any genocide, including any apologia or denial. And they believe in a genocidal Holomodor & Uyghurmodor as much as in the German Nazi ones & the ongoing one in Gaza.
If lemmy.world weren’t defederated from Hexbear, I would ask them to confirm.
Edit to add: they seem to flip-flop on whether or not Uyghurs have been / are being genocided
I think they might be making fun of how meaningless the word 'tankie' is by calling everything a tankie