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Those who support authoritative regime. I think it’s the new commies. Tend to be used on those who are sympathetic to Russia and China.

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No, I am a tankie but I don’t support any authoritarian regime. I don’t support America or the EU for example. I like Cuba. They have laws mandating queer rights, women’s right, health care, strong democratic participation.

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How do you identify as a tankie?

I only see the word used on other people, but never see some one use it on themselves

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Around here it is pretty common. Easily. Most of the people who actually ever worked to improve society have been labeled tankies so it is a badge of honor.

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The USA has explicit foreign policy doctrine stating that using strongmen dictators is important for anticommunism. The USA supports over 70% of the world’s dictators.

The USA also has the worlds largest prison population and uses them for slave labour.

The USA has been involved in many genocides over the years.

Are people who support the USA tankies?

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and neither are communists… makes sense.

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What if I am fully sympathetic towards China out of those two?

I am sympathetic towards Russian fear of nato expansion but believe Vlad bungled so fucking bad he made things worse then ever at breakneck speeds.

Am I a tankie.

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Theoriticaly yes. I mean ignoring the russian thing completely. China still has some serious large scale privacy and human rights violations. Alghtough arguably as with ‘woke’ in reality tankie is a meaningless term used to divide pepole between us and them instead of actually just discussing the actual issues.

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And what are you doing with privacy? We have none here in the US and our lives are not really any worse for it is there? If anything the only time we see any privacy rights is when some one wants to hide how they are hurting us. Corrupt politicians and the like.

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Russia is as not a communist state. No one on the left is supporting Puttin lead Russia.

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Ambivalent KPRF noises

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So people who support Ukraine are tankies?

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