TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 10 months agoTankies will never understandlemmy.worldimagemessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up1436arrow-down135
arrow-up1401arrow-down1imageTankies will never understandlemmy.worldTokenBoomer@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 10 months agomessage-square51fedilink
minus-squarebuddascrayon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up50arrow-down1·10 months agoTIL that an uncomfortably large number of people on Lemmy don’t know what the fuck a Tankie is, but think they do.
minus-squareZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down2·10 months agoPeople on Lemmy call people opposing war and the military industrial complex Tankies. It can be uncanny the gambit the term runs here.
minus-squareJanklinkfedilinkarrow-up4·10 months agoGotta imagine there’s a lot going on to poison the well. Doesn’t take much to cause in fighting around these parts.
minus-squareendhits@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·10 months agoTankie is almost always “socialist I don’t like” or even “anyone to the left of Mussolini”.
TIL that an uncomfortably large number of people on Lemmy don’t know what the fuck a Tankie is, but think they do.
People on Lemmy call people opposing war and the military industrial complex Tankies.
It can be uncanny the gambit the term runs here.
Gotta imagine there’s a lot going on to poison the well. Doesn’t take much to cause in fighting around these parts.
Tankie is almost always “socialist I don’t like” or even “anyone to the left of Mussolini”.