Tankie is used colloquially to mean "Someone with opinions I don't like who is left of the Clinton's". It is, at best, a thought terminating cliché. There's no reason to give it any credence or attention.
This. It’s basically short hand for anti-imperialist ML. Trying to claim it only means something that is only tangentally related to its use at this point is nerd shit.
Tankies are people who think the Soviet Union was justified in using the Red Army to suppress the revolt in Hungary in 1956.
That's it. No one else is a tankie.
Oh come on this is Reddit-tier prescriptionism. Language evolves. Now tankie means Marxist, or communist.
Tankie is used colloquially to mean "Someone with opinions I don't like who is left of the Clinton's". It is, at best, a thought terminating cliché. There's no reason to give it any credence or attention.
Personally, I like the reclamation/normalization of the term
This. It’s basically short hand for anti-imperialist ML. Trying to claim it only means something that is only tangentally related to its use at this point is nerd shit.
hello grandpa please tell me more about the olden days did you wear an onion on your belt