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AllNewTypeFaceNow watch all the tankies praise him as a honorary socialist
WereHackerI am trying to get someone to explain what tankie means. People call me tankie from time to time, but I have no love for the iranian goverment.
A “tankie” is just anyone to the left of you
You guys are easy to spot these days.
You can see from the question that poster asked that, whatever clear definition about authoritarianism or whatever you think it has, that’s just not how people are actually using it. Centrists will use it for Mamdani supporters, DSA-types will use it for Marxist-Leninists, and anarchists will use it for almost literally anyone.
wonderingwandererNo one calls Mamdani a tankie, but I have seen tankies calling Mamdani a fascist. They clearly don’t know what fascism is.
Centrists also don’t use the term “tankie.” If anything they call everyone on the left a socialist (as if it’s a bad thing) or a communist or a radical leftist.
“Tankie” is specifically a word people on the left use to refer to auth-comms.