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[-] sawne128@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 11 months ago

Tankie either refers to anyone to the left of Trump, or very specifically the LaRouche movement, depending on what's most convenient.

[-] Gucci_Minh@hexbear.net 35 points 11 months ago

Make tankie mean pro-Soviet intervention against reactionary Hungarian colour revolution again.

[-] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 11 months ago

Liberal reading your comment:

Make … again

MAGA communism tankie! fascist coping

[-] QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 11 months ago

No it doesn’t, I’ve only heard radlibs use it and it was against any supporters of AES. Originally it was used for people in Britain who supported Khrushchev’s intervention in Hungary, but since has been expanded on the internet.

[-] NikkiB@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 11 months ago

How did I go my whole life thinking Stalin did the intervention in Hungary?

[-] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 11 months ago

That's the anti-Stalin paradigm at work. Everything you've been told was bad about the USSR was down to Stalin.

[-] QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 11 months ago

Idk, it happened after Stalin’s death. How long have you known about it? (“My whole life”)

[-] sawne128@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 11 months ago
[-] QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 11 months ago

Lol. It would make sense for the term to be more mainstream in the UK considering it’s from there. Basically, they are trying to associate Corbyn with people like us who would have supported the Soviet intervention, which is a stretch.

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