Saw some posts about .ml today and thought I'd jump on the bandwagon lol
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Yeah, I get called a tankie on the regular now, just because my user account is on .ml and I still don't actually know what it's supposed to mean. Apparently, I'm supposed to have political opinions on topics that I'm significantly more ignorant on than the people who call me that.
When the Hungarian workers revolted against the Soviet Union with demands like a minimum wage and the right to strike, Stalin sent in the army with tanks to put down the revolution. Many Stalin supporters said this was justified.
A tankie is one of those supporters who will make excuses for the use of tanks to suppress rebellion.
Hmm, interesting, thanks!
You're welcome!
When you make an account on any social media moderated by someone else, you're putting them in a position of power over you. We haven't yet figured out a technology for social media without these hierarchies, and until we do, the only choice we can make is who to give power over ourselves.
People want you to make an informed and measured choice on who to give power over yourself.
The literal definition is someone who unquestionably supports anyone who waves a red flag. In practice, it means anyone who ever acknowledges a good thing done by a socialist state, or even refutes misinformation about them. If you say, "Cuba had a successful literacy program," there are people who will call you a tankie, even though it's just objectively true.