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Forest of trees (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (12 children)

The word "tankie" originated as the OP describes, referring to members of the Communist Party of Great Britain that supported the USSR putting down the color revolutions in Hungary and Prague Spring. Nowadays, it is used as a catch-all pejorative for anyone to the left of the DNC.

[–] Imgonnatrythis -2 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Examples? Seems like it's used for Russians that fail to stand up to or actively support their government to me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

You can see quite a few instances in this thread of such accusations. Actually, maybe not, you aren't federated with the major leftist instances as far as I know.

[–] Klear 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh, we can see them alright. Haven't seen so many tagged profiles in a long while.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What do you use for tagging? I need a way to start doing that

[–] Klear 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Boost.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

Looks like it's now an experimental feature in voyager. Still may need to try out boost again

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