what actually is a tankie? I mean I just have an appreciation for the engineering that goes into mechanical stuff like tanks, helicopters and jets…but not cars
It means exactly the same thing that “commie” meant during the cold war, it’s just an updated version to for people who don’t want to sound like red scare era boomers.
The term “tankie” was originally used by dissident Marxist–Leninists to describe members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) who followed the party line of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Specifically, it was used to distinguish party members who spoke out in defence of the Soviet use of tanks to suppress the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the 1968 Prague Spring, or who more broadly adhered to pro-Soviet positions.[6][7] The term has extended to describe people who endorse, defend, or deny the actions of communist leaders such as Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong. In recent times, the term has been used across the political spectrum and in a geopolitical context to describe those who have a bias in favour of anti-Western states, authoritarian states, or states with a socialist legacy, such as Belarus, Cuba, China,[8][9] Nicaragua, North Korea, Russia, and Venezuela.
So OP is basically saying they love it when governments crack the will of their people by force as long as its their team doing it.
Using your own definition, the conclusion doesn’t follow, what follows is that OP is a Marxist-Leninist. The concluding bit is your personal mischaracterization of Marxism-Leninism.
It doesn’t, though. The bit Sanctus added to the end was their personal evaluation of Marxism-Leninism, not something that matched the Wiki definition.
what actually is a tankie? I mean I just have an appreciation for the engineering that goes into mechanical stuff like tanks, helicopters and jets…but not cars
It’s a pejorative for Marxists, usually Marxist-Leninists, in the same vein as “commie,” “pinko,” and “red.” That’s about it.
It means exactly the same thing that “commie” meant during the cold war, it’s just an updated version to for people who don’t want to sound like red scare era boomers.
Directly from Wikipedia:
So OP is basically saying they love it when governments crack the will of their people by force as long as its their team doing it.
Using your own definition, the conclusion doesn’t follow, what follows is that OP is a Marxist-Leninist. The concluding bit is your personal mischaracterization of Marxism-Leninism.
Amazing how this doesn’t’ even match up with the definition you just posted yourself.
I mean, it does match the original definition pretty well. Aa always it’s an issue of people having different definitions for the same word.
It doesn’t, though. The bit Sanctus added to the end was their personal evaluation of Marxism-Leninism, not something that matched the Wiki definition.
Wikipedia is owned by someone who’s married to a federal agent, not a valid source of information for anything like this
OK Boomer.
They’re right, cry about it
Says a rando anon online. Oooh, so credible. Rawr.
They’re right, cry about it