It’s not fun interacting with them when they often want to engage in ad hominems. This is why I have no interest in the tankie triad.
It’s not fun interacting with them when they often want to engage in ad hominems. This is why I have no interest in the tankie triad.
You can click the links in the sidebar for what a tankie is.
But basically they’re an extremist who believe in extraordinary violence, genocide and authoritarianism. They’re also called red fascists, in that they share the same views and talking points of fascists, but with a pseudo-communist tinge.
Gotcha. Thank you for explaining it homie!
The term tankie came to be after instances of the USSR suppressing protests by driving tanks into the protestors. Like the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia in 1968. This resulted in people, in the west, who are leftists, defending these actions, as some sort of necessity, in order to maintain communism. The defense of the extreme authoritarianism used here, IE using tanks to kill people, is where the term “Tankie” comes from.
Thank you for connecting the dots for me. There were other replies that while informative, didn’t explain the name. This makes much more sense.
yup, no problem, good bit of trivia to know, especially here