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fixed cyberghost's "meme" (thelemmy.club)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I have only seen it used in reference to people who support dictatorial regimes with socialist aesthetics, mostly MLs.

yet to see an anarchist be called a tankie

https://hexbear.net/post/214901

https://hexbear.net/post/374789

https://hexbear.net/post/126901

There's more in the_dunk_tank if you're willing to dig

https://hexbear.net/c/the_dunk_tank

Pro Tip: Sort by Top All. Anarchists getting called tankie tends to get a lot of upbears because we have anarchist comrades on our instance. We're a left unity instance

https://hexbear.net/search?q=tankie&type=All&listingType=All&communityId=31&page=1&sort=TopAll

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

No idea what the first link is even about, seems incomprehensible. The second link seems true but I have no idea what was said prior. The third link is about programming. Seems there is one potential example of an anarchist being called a tankie. Seems like the vast majority of times it's being used in reference to MLs still.

In all seriousness there are plenty of people who misuse words but tankie seems to have a very clear and easily defined definition, it has even remained the same historically. Comparing it to the crazies using 'woke' is dishonest at best.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]