1·
3 years agoThe term goes back to the 50s and 60s, hardly a buzzword.
Sorry to tell you, but you’ve been living under a rock.
When DMing me, remember that you have to trust both your server’s admin, as well as mine.
Please use the following age key to encrypt your message (and send me yours, so that I can reply).
age196r7j3hn9dpwsywvlch0ncrvtlx94l2kwyndj733j5vr73dy0vyqa0jgca
- 0 Posts
- 4 Comments
Joined 3 years ago
Cake day: June 14th, 2023
You are not logged in. If you use a Fediverse account that is able to follow users, you can follow this user.
Have a look at comments in any news article regarding Ukraine. They will simp for Russia just because they are not US allies.
A tankie is commonly used to refer to someone who blindly defends the actions of the USSR, China, North Korea, etc. Going as far as denying human rights abuses and genocide.
It’s not the same thing as woke.
Tankies.
You can’t have a discussion about anything without some tankie blaming it on Ukrainians / the west / capitalism, etc.
“Oh you stubbed your toe on the table? See, tables are oppressive furniture of the bourgeoisie. The Chinese government wanted to make all tables toe-stubbing resistent, but that would affect IKEA’s bottom line and the pharmaceutical industry’s profits. I have a source from tankiepeoplesmagazine to back this up.”
It’s a very common word in leftist circles. So if Lemmy is your first contact with leftists (beyond center left), then that explains it.
Being annoying is your opinion, but it’s not a buzzword that someone from gen z invented recently.