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[โ€“] Guildo@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[โ€“] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

True, but some tankies refuse to believe that. They're literally pretending that Christofascist dictator Putin is a good communist ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿ˜‚

[โ€“] Guildo@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

those are not tankies, those are idiots

[โ€“] WldFyre@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a lot of overlap there, though.

[โ€“] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

TONS of it. In fact, given that a tankie is by definition someone who is in favor of enforcing a system of equality by utilising oppression (the term stems from when the USSR sent tanks to stop Yugoslavia from establishing a more progressive form of communism than that of Moscow), I'd say that tankies have a 100% idiot overlap.

[โ€“] krolden@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

no one is doing that.

[โ€“] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone -4 points 1 year ago

The history of the Soviet Union is not great BTW

Also tankies do in general support Russia

I'm not saying all leftist are tankies (I'm a leftist) but what I am saying is that all tankies claim to be leftist while simultaneously supporting fascist and their imperialism.