Got my first warning from upvoting Luigi.
I will keep upvoting him :)
this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2025
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Ok. I'm new here. What's a tankie
Edit: tysm everyone for the answers
these days it's just Blue Team's version of "woke"
Yeah, suck it blue! I mean red! I mean blue! Ugh!
People that Stan authoritarian countries. The term comes from when the USSR crushed liberation movements with tanks in the Republics and many western communists approved of the crushing. People who love China, Russia, Assad’s Syria, etc are tankies.
Makes sense. Tyvm
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It’s actually old hat. Users on r/cth (where hexbear came from) were catching admin bans for upvoting the “wrong” posts years ago.
What was wrong about them?
they often approve of the racial genocides, hunting down of the lgbt and other morally reprehensible stuff this authoritarian regimes did.
Tankies are economically leftwing but their social views can be...questionable
I do not believe without a source that Reddit admins were banning chapos for upvoting positive-spin genocide. Not that I doubt it happened, but if they were doing that there wouldn't have been anyone left in the conservative subs (except for reasons, of course)
I can believe chapo was one of the subs that would ban you for doing it or commenting in the wrong sub like AgainstHateSubs would but that's a different claim than what you're making.
That all said, it's probably pretty hard to find a source for decade old Reddit drama at this point, but if you've got one let it rip.
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I hate the uprising of the word tankie like the rise of the word woke. Just more language to make walls between people.
Its still not as bad as how Twitter works. If you wanna say “kill all the (group)” you just search for someone else who wrote it and then retweet that. Then if someone challenges you, you just say “not my words bro”.
Just another way to allow hateful right wing content to stay up while punishing users who aren’t retarded for upvoting Luigi memes and saying trump is a fascist etc
What else is new on Reddit? They should just pull the trigger and make an official bigots only policy like twitter
Obligatory fuck u/spez (with a large pineapple preferably)
I hope his pineapple sizes pale in comparison to Trump's and Elon's.