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But they claim it's Russia interfering in our elections to deflect from the real problem
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this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2026
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Urban dictionary says it means authoritarian communist.
Sorry I was trying to be funny. I will attempt to explain more seriously.
Tankies are supposed “communists” who defend “communism” as implemented by China CCP and the USSR. They will tell you these are good implementations of communism. You will find many of them on Lemmy.ml and Lemmygrad.ml both instances .world has defederated from, so you are probably not seeing a lot of posts from them.
The joke about account age was because it is surprising you would have spent that amount of time in the fediverse and not heard of Tankies yet.
I'm pretty sure I've heard/seen it but never took the time to figure out what it meant.
Yeah that explanation makes sense.
Authoritarian communism, is , from my perspective, not genuine communism.
Isn't a core principle of communism (as the term itself implies) a communal society. Which would be where each citizen has more control over legislation and government actions. ?
No single leader would be needed. And would always cause a failure of the system.
A rotation of elected counselors would be optimal.
Authoritarianism only leads to fascism. Doesn't matter what the intention is behind implementation. It will inevitably lead to fascism.
Many Democratic presidents who gave themselves more power, paved the way for the position we are in right now.
A pure communist country would be a stateless society but if the state get more and more power like it happened to china it eould be harder if not imposivle to have a ststeless society