I’m pretty good at picking things up from context, so I’m gonna say a tankie is someone opposed to the deployment of tanks against a captive civilian population, the police having tanks, and tanks’ worth of tear gas being used on peaceful protestors?

(please don’t reply with earnest answers to my question, thx)

EDIT - some of y’all are failing to follow this last instruction smdh

  • Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Originally, tankie was a derogatory term for people who defended the deployment of tanks against civilians but the term has lost its meaning over time. Now, you’ll get called a tankie for merely saying that China isn’t the evil boogieman that fascists want us to believe it is. And the irony is that the libs calling us tankies are the ones who support Israel’s genocide of Palestine.