They start with the preconcieved notion that "tankies bad" then work backwards from that. So if someone has a bad take, they are a "tankie" because "tankies bad." If someone claiming to represent their in-group has a bad take, that person is a deep cover tankie in disguise.
After last year where redditors were calling Henry Kissinger a tankie because he was pushing for Ukraine to go to the negotiating table I realised the term was going to be completely meaningless from then on.
unironically though, the only reasons i can think of that they think that these two people are tankies is that they criticised the west and white people and they're black
unless of course tankie just means "left wing people i dislike" to them
shout out to the people calling an anarchist with a ukraine flag in their display name a tankie bcs they had a bad take
They start with the preconcieved notion that "tankies bad" then work backwards from that. So if someone has a bad take, they are a "tankie" because "tankies bad." If someone claiming to represent their in-group has a bad take, that person is a deep cover tankie in disguise.
It's tankies all the way down
After last year where redditors were calling Henry Kissinger a tankie because he was pushing for Ukraine to go to the negotiating table I realised the term was going to be completely meaningless from then on.
tankie | woke
Shoutout to the lemmy mgrad guy that did that for like 200 comments straight before the thread got locked
Kissinger wanted to avoid directly nuking the Soviets. Confirmed tankie
unironically though, the only reasons i can think of that they think that these two people are tankies is that they criticised the west and white people and they're black
unless of course tankie just means "left wing people i dislike" to them
that is in fact what it always means