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• Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The number of Chinese Marxist-Leninists alone vastly outnumbers us Western tankies. The vast majority of “tankies” live in various countries outside of the imperial core.

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• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Tankies exist around the world, I don’t know why you’re making it an american thing. It’s not limited to just americans.

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  • zikzak025@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah but closer to the eastern bloc you’re likely to hear the term “vatnik” used instead.

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    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Tankies and vatniks have a lot of overlap.

      From my understanding, a vatnik is specifically someone who is shilling for the russian government. Not necessarily under a veneer of leftism (because the kremlin is far-right-wing).

      A tankie may or may not be directly shilling for the kremlin, but it’s always an auth-comm under a guise of leftism.

      Tankie vatniks exist of course, but they’re just the center of the venn diagram.

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  • Greddan@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Because I sometimes get curious and find out who they are. Either americans are less privacy conscious, or most tankies are american college kids, often with some neuropsychological disability kids like to flaunt nowadays.

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    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      A decade ago, it was “as a black man in america…” Now I suppose it’s “as an autistic person in america…”

      Still the same troll farms operating out of russia.

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