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Tankies are anyone who apologizes/defends/supports authoritarian/fascist/totalitarian/capitalist/generally right-wing regimes while pretending to be a communist/socialist/general leftist.
The "tankie" ideologies you commonly run into are Stalinist/"Marxist"-Leninist, Maoist, National "Socialist", National Bolshevik.
That guy worships Stalin, he's a tankie, not a communist.
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Tankies are so deluded that they cannot see irony at all in their own speech
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Someone who idealises military pageantry, communist iconography, and milatary strength including tanks in favour of a far left-wing communist/socialist regime to a borderline fascistic degree.
Wow, that Tankie sure does like tanks
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a Slur against people in The Thomas The Tank Engine Twitter Fandom
"look at those fucking Tankies always causing drama"
Your average person in the former USSR who grew up with a Soviet, communist mentality. Typically an old, middle aged boomer who likes watching cringy Russian bandit movies in their spare time who just wants to go back to how it was in their childhood.
Tankies are usually very for strict gender roles and patriarchy, homophobic, and ableist (unless it's a: narcissist, alcoholic, psychopath, or some other harmful disability).
They also hate technology and think GPS navigation makes people retarded, and really hate swearing and children enjoying anything edgier than Dora the Explorer (I.e SpongeBob)
Despite being raised atheist, they're usually into Islam or Christianity on a surface level, depending on what former Soviet country do they come from. They also typically encourage narcissist-like behavior and assholery in people.
Authentic tankies that aren't LARPers on weird political circlejerk communities aren't commonly found outside former USSR countries.
Matvey: My tankie dad forces us to use outdated maps whenever we go on road trips because he thinks GPS is bourgeois and would make us retarded!
Olga, his friend: Oh, and my tankie mom doesn't let me watch SpongeBob because she thinks it's too bourgeois and would make my brain shrink!
A person who thinks war is cool and descends into the devious act of communism in order to act upon that interest
Me: hey that guy, he's a tankie
My friend: wanna jump him?
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A young male, usually between the ages of 13 and 21 who spends way to much time on reddit and 4chan, and who is a strong supporter of communism, especially the soviet union because it sounds nice and has a cool national anthem. Will also go out of there way to find reasons why the USSR is (was) cooler than the U.S.
Similar to commieboo
Person #1: Wow, did you know 70 million people died in communist china?
Person #2: But that wasn't real communism!
Person #1: Shut up tankie
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