I keep seeing "fuck tankies" everywhere, and seem to see people getting called "tankie" for any number of things--I used to feel like I knew what it meant (the formal definition, which I thought was the only application) but that's clearly not the case anymore. Saw someone get called one because they... Liked the idea of universal basic income and wanted walkable cities? And now the same sentiment is on a large number of Lemmy communities, lol.
I feel like I've been living under a rock.
Edit: Wow, I guess it's just as meaningless of a term now as it seemed. At least it's a nice, bright flag for ghouls not worth engaging with meaningfully, lol. I saw "fuck tankies" on a genderqueer community and got pretty confused on how the two ideas correlated in the slightest, so I guess that was the tipping point on me finally asking about it.
It’s a term used by people on the left (both liberal/soc dem left and ultras/Trots/leftcom) who unironically believe that actually existed USSR was red fascism/imperialism to distinguish themselves as the true “real socialism has never been tried” left despite having nothing to show for (including the soc dems) for the past 100 years.