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• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Too bad centrists think everyone with any criticism whatsoever of anything they do is a tankie.

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  • Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Haven’t seen that happen yet.

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    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That speaks more to your lack of criticism.

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• dudesss@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What’s a tankie and what makes them close to Nazis?

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  • Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A tankie is a kind of person who like Imperialism and expansionism so long as it comes from something related to, as the other user said, Marxist-Lenism.

    The origin of Marxist-Lenism is Russia, so they support Russia invading things, and committing warcrimes, and make all sorts of excuses for such acts.

    Today they’re primarily in support of the Russian side in the Russo-Ukranian war, do not consider it an invasion of a sovereign nation, and consider it fully justified as an act to oppose “NATO expansion”.

    Essentially, to a tankie, nothing “goes too far” if they can somehow connect it to a Marxist-Lenist agenda, and behave the same way about Putin as an right-wing American behaves about Trump.

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    • dudesss@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh, I don’t think I’ve witnessed one here.

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      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You probably haven’t. It’s just a word centrists throw around when they want to defederate from instances they don’t like for being to their left.

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      • Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They tend to pool in a certain subset of lemmy instances, and some of the main instances have defederated them, because at one point it got pretty bad.

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