• mim@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    Tankies.

    You can’t have a discussion about anything without some tankie blaming it on Ukrainians / the west / capitalism, etc.

    “Oh you stubbed your toe on the table? See, tables are oppressive furniture of the bourgeoisie. The Chinese government wanted to make all tables toe-stubbing resistent, but that would affect IKEA’s bottom line and the pharmaceutical industry’s profits. I have a source from tankiepeoplesmagazine to back this up.”

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      1 year ago

      I almost never see this, but I see complaints about “tankies” all the time. I’m not even sure what a tankie is, but it seems about as stupid as the term “woke”.

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        Have a look at comments in any news article regarding Ukraine. They will simp for Russia just because they are not US allies.

        A tankie is commonly used to refer to someone who blindly defends the actions of the USSR, China, North Korea, etc. Going as far as denying human rights abuses and genocide.

        It’s not the same thing as woke.