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"Tankie" refers to principled Communists who have the balls to support and carry on the tradition of supporting revolunarys across the globe instead of LARPers who's "Leftist activism" begins and ends at screaming "b-B-but nOoOt rEaL cOmmUnisM"
It is used mostly in online spaces by self-proclaimed "anarchists" (read: anti-communists and Liberals who like dressing their slogans in rosy sounding language draping them in red and black)
Bob: "your a real Tankie, you know that?"
Felix: "damn right you f****** Lib"
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Authoritarian larpers that say the holodomor never happened, that everything bad communism did was "ummm capitalism actually", that the purges were "good actually" and unironically simp for Stalin without even realizing they would be the first people in the gulag. -Count Dankula
80-year-old Ukrainian man: my entire family was killed by the NKVD
Tankie: they deserved it probably
empathetic humans: shut the f--k up Tankie
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(noun) A leftist who is so overly concerned with not being mistaken for a liberal that they accidentally became a conservative.
Kyle: Everyone is so obsessed with identity politics now.
Rosa: Don't be such a tankie, Kyle.
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Tankie is to describe those who supported/is supporting the economic and political system of the USSR and other socialist nations both existing and/or previously existing states and their leaders particularly Stalin and Mao, While also strictly criticising these states methods and execution.
Used commonly as an insult from anarchists and other ideologies.
Damn i hate the ussr because none of my ideology actually achieves something to society. I hate those red fascist tankies for making me look like a hippie gathering than an revolution!
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When you do something cool, difficult or impressive it would be tanky or if you’re really big and hench then you’re a tank
“Woah he’s a tank he just downed that drink in 3 seconds”
“Her playlist is called crackers, that’s so tanky”.
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1. An insult used by radlibs and other leftists to describe socialists or communists that defend actually existing socialism (or anti-imperialists) who don't buy into the BS spread about countries like the USSR, China, Cuba, Venezuela, or the DPRK by the State Department, the CIA, and the mainstream media.
2. A general derogative hurled against any Marxist-Leninist or Marxist-Leninist-Maoist by radlibs or other leftists.
Marxist-Leninist: Actually, the Soviet Union was dissolved illegally against the wishes of the people. And even today a majority of people who lived in former Soviet republics during the Soviet Union and currently live there say life was better back then. No country is perfect, but we should make sure to be skeptical of anything the West says about them.
SocDem: Lol, ok tankie! My textbook told me that Stalin was an evil monster that killed 150 billion people! Have you heard of Animal Farm?
Anti-imperialist: Maybe we shouldn't be believing someone who thinks that he was sent by God to destroy China.
DemSoc: Lol, ok tankie!
Marxist-Leninist: Revolutions are inherently authoritarian, just ask Engels.
Anarchist: Lol, ok tankie!
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A non-white politically conscious human being whose politics are to the left of the person uttering the word (most likely a white liberal)
Also see: authoritarian, totalitarian, authcom, uncivilised, uppity baboon,
P1:"They think non-white nations should be able to rule themselves, choose their own political-economic system, without considering our western models as their end goal!"
P2: "Wow, they are such a Tankie!"
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