this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2025
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Hope y'all are happy with NSPM-7...

Edit: thanks for the down votes, can't wait for the mods here to delete this, sorry for getting it off my chest, I guess y'all will be happy with the 'tankies' being rounded up by a fascist state....

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[–] devolution@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Well you know if tankies had voted or not voted for Jill Stein, they'd be taken more serious. But they keep wanting to die on the Gaza hill with moral superiority, not focusing on all of the other horrific shit their righteousness has allowed.

Also, Trump's attacks on the left are because he needs a scapegoat.

[–] ValarieLenin@midwest.social 1 points 5 hours ago

I voted blue.... The only elections that 3rd parties can build momentum with are local elections and slowly building up to national representation.

[–] mienshao@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And tankies continue to bitch more about liberals than the far-right nazis actually destroying society.

[–] ValarieLenin@midwest.social -2 points 1 day ago

Lol, lmao even. Guess you're just gonna ignore the reason I made this post, NSPM-7....

[–] Jumbie@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] Addv4@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Think maga, but somehow "socialist" and really, really likes China (and usually Russia) and will wave away any negative points about them. Overall, pretty annoying.

Edit: For more examples, just read the OP's comments. Not even joking, they're pretty decent examples of how tankies talk, if you see them outside of their native habitat (ie .ml).

[–] klu9@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Once more, but in your best David Attenborough voice.

[–] Addv4@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

"Here we have the common Tankie, one of Lemmy's more interesting denizens. Watch as they futility claim the superiority of communist China and rage at any mention that their utopian ideal has even a pastina of tarnish..."

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

pastina

It's got a nice rigatoni sheen.

[–] Addv4@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Oh wow, hadn't even noticed that autocorrect messed that up.

[–] klu9@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago
[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

An authoritarian "communist."

The term originated in England, after the USSR sent in tanks to crush the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. Those who supported the USSR - who believed that people should be forced to submit to a "communist" system under threat of death at the hands of an authoritarian government - were, and still are, called "tankies."

[–] Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Pro-China/Russia/NK trolls who are only capable of black and white thinking, and bad faith arguments. "Oh look, here is one single, specific subject in which the USA has done a bad job, while China has done a good job. See western liberals, China is a superior nation."

They completely ignore that any country is capable of doing good things, and bad things, despite how evil said country may or may not be.

They have a copy paste playbook they share with each other, with replies such as "you're wrong because western propaganda."

Better to not waste time, block them, and never look back.

[–] limer@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Am actual tankie and endorse this message, seriously.

For everyone who is upset by that, eff off and go back to singing Kumbaya for your strength of soul

[–] ValarieLenin@midwest.social -5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah and the liberals will still down vote the post cause it hurts their feelings.

[–] Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Seems like you are the one with hurt feelings. Your tone is cunty, that's why you are being down voted. With that said, divided we fall. Liberals aren't your enemy, it's the billionaires.