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.

    • @Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works
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      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.