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[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 88 points 10 months ago
[-] UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works 99 points 10 months ago

Nothing tankie about this. Do conservatives just use it as a kind of slur because they heard progressives using it?

[-] nebula42@lemmy.world 56 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's (basically) used to describe communists that still support authoritarian regimes such as the ussr, China, and north korea

[-] Darorad@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

Yeah, basically

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago

I've not really heard conservatives use it, mostly lefties who want to distance themselves as far as they can from it.

[-] HeavyCream@beehaw.org 27 points 10 months ago

Why would you be called a tankie? I don’t see any leftist authoritarianism here.

[-] KillAllPoorPeople@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago

Why do all the 40 year old boomer Lemmy users call anything to the left of the most moderate Democrat "tankie"?

[-] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I do not see it using for leftists in general. Just the ones that for some reason support Russia and China

[-] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Exactly. Those boomer posters just call you a communist.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 18 points 10 months ago

Millennial, thank you very much. And, no, as an Anarchist I can definitely say that tankies are to the right of me. By like twenty parsecs.

Also, this.

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[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 17 points 10 months ago

40 year old boomer

Wrong age class. Boomers are 60+

[-] KillAllPoorPeople@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 6 points 10 months ago

Lmao at the 30 year old boomer

I don't see why I'm being called a boomer (or at least that's what seems to be happening here).

While I'm not exactly storming the Bastille over here, I'm pretty fucking liberal.

[-] Breezy@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Damnit 30 year olds are boomers now? Where was this boom? Did i miss it or something?

[-] Rocket@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

My, the 15 year old boomers are out of touch.

[-] KillAllPoorPeople@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I'm not calling you a boomer, unless you're calling the image you posted tankie material and yourself a tankie.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

Five years ago? Philipp Amthor turned 30 last year. Also he's not known as the 30 year old boomer but Germany's youngest pensioner.

[-] Clbull@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

A bit like how anybody further right of Biden is often branded a Nazi by the left, regardless of whether their policies actually resemble Fascism.

Politics has turned heavily toxic and partisan.

[-] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Moderates are still a large demographic in the US but completely unrepresented in the media and in government.

Edit: so yeah I agree. I'm personally not likely to label a moderate a Nazi, but I'll stay vigilant about it.

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