• mim@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    Have a look at comments in any news article regarding Ukraine. They will simp for Russia just because they are not US allies.

    A tankie is commonly used to refer to someone who blindly defends the actions of the USSR, China, North Korea, etc. Going as far as denying human rights abuses and genocide.

    It’s not the same thing as woke.

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      1 year ago

      I know it’s not the same as woke, the word just hits the same level of annoyingness for me.

      I’m all for shutting down those who support Russia right now, I just feel like using buzzwords makes it more difficult to take people seriously.

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          I never saw that word used until I came to lemmy. I had to look it up and found that exact same wiki page for it.

          Just because its a real word with a wiki page doesn’t make it any less annoying to constantly see on here. And only here. I see that word on NO other sites I ever visit.

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            9 months ago

            I’ve seen “tankie” in leftist discussions on multiple sites for ages before I joined Lemmy.

            Just because its a real word with a wiki page doesn’t make it any less annoying […]

            And just because you first encountered a word in some place doesn’t mean that word originated in that place.