this post was submitted on 13 May 2023
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got banned from @memes for posting an anti-tankie meme (at least one mod is a tankie of course)

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[–] salarua@ohai.social 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

@Pinklacey "tankie" is slang for someone who uncritically admires and praises the Soviet Union, Red China, or their modern equivalents (i.e. Russia and modern China, even though they cannot reasonably be called "communist")

[–] metaltoilet@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

Yet many still call themselves anarchists/communists when they are almost the opposite.

[–] Ninmi@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

The Communism part seems to be mostly a red herring, it's added flavor at most. The central core tenet seems to be an anti-American standpoint with whatever authoritarian/dictatorial regime that fits it. Seemingly regardless of political alignments, and regardless of contradicting views from what they claim to represent.

They often purport themselves anti-fascist, but this can be viewed much the same way as the DDR called their Berlin Wall an "Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart".