- Umbrias ( @Umbrias@beehaw.org ) 40•2 months ago
normally claims to be leftist, the main tankie things are being in support of authoritarians, as long as they wear red (claim to be communist) and often uncritically support any actions taken against “the west”, which often aligns them with authoritarian governments like the ccp, kremlin. Tankies get their name from support of various events where tanks were used to oppress, like tianmen square, prague spring, etc.
- juliebean ( @juliebean@lemm.ee ) 17•2 months ago
they’re like furries, but for tanks. they make up tanksonas, and wear anthropomorphic tank costumes, got to tankie conventions, and draw lots of art of anthropomorphic tanks. the subculture goes back to the earliest mecha anime, but there are antecedants going back to leonardo da vinci.
- Atelopus-zeteki ( @Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run ) 1•2 months ago
I met an antecedent once, it wasn’t what I thought it was.
- ComradeSharkfucker ( @sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ) English15•2 months ago
Tankie is a derogatory used to refer to marxist-leninist specifically because of their belief in the dictatorship of the proletariet. Most people assume this means a single unelected person has complete power over the economy and military but it should not take this form and marxist-leninist “tankies” do not typically advocate for this. The dictatorship of the proletariet only means that the working class both owns the means of production (anything required to produce goods, this can be factories, land, tools, etc.) and dictates the rules/organization of society. This is as opposed to the dictatorship of the bourgeosie (as seen in current liberal democracy) where an unelected minority, the rich, controls the means of production and dictates the rules/organization of society.
As for the origin of the term
'tankie’ emerged in the 1970s as a pejorative term to describe those who supported the Soviet actions in 1968 and was used in internal disputes, especially around the 1977 revamping of the CPGB programme, The British Road to Socialism, where Eurocommunist ideas reached the upper echelons of the party.
Typically though tankie is used to refer to anyone who supports real existing socialism
- naevaTheRat ( @naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 2•2 months ago
I’ve been called a tankie for just trying to be clear about what Marxism actually is. I would say I’m sympathetic to Marxists but not one. Having far stronger anarchist sympathies.
But you know, being critical of the usa or saying anything remotely positive about China/the ussr means you are either a Russian bot/op or a tankie.
- Andrzej ( @Andrzej@lemmy.myserv.one ) 12•2 months ago
So many tankies in this thread smdh
- kittenzrulz123 ( @kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 7•2 months ago
Anyone that a Liberal doesn’t like (and occasionally anyone a leftist doesn’t like)
Let me know if the image is fucked, I’m getting errors my end :(
- Toes♀ ( @Toes@ani.social ) 6•2 months ago
She’s dead Jim
- Jimbo ( @Jimbo@yiffit.net ) 1•2 months ago
:(
- glizzyguzzler ( @glizzyguzzler@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 6•2 months ago
Upload to catbox.moe then paste the URL in your post, you can edit your post directly! The Blåhaj has been having image troubles lately :(
Yay thanks! Didn’t know that site existed I usually use imagur
- glizzyguzzler ( @glizzyguzzler@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 3•2 months ago
Imgir has been jacked up with shit, esp on mobile can’t get to “just the image”, and sometimes won’t load due to ad blockers or VPNs; catbox seems to get back to “just image hosting”, and it’s cat themed so that’s just great
Litter box moe is a temporary one, if you wanted something a la firefox send also!