• buddascrayon@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    TIL that an uncomfortably large number of people on Lemmy don’t know what the fuck a Tankie is, but think they do.

    • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      People on Lemmy call people opposing war and the military industrial complex Tankies.

      It can be uncanny the gambit the term runs here.

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        11 months ago

        Gotta imagine there’s a lot going on to poison the well. Doesn’t take much to cause in fighting around these parts.

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      11 months ago

      Tankie is almost always “socialist I don’t like” or even “anyone to the left of Mussolini”.