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.
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.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
dudesss@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Oh, I don’t think I’ve witnessed one here.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.