• w3dd1e@lemmy.zip
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      2 days ago

      I didn’t know what it was until recently either. I learned when they started telling me about how Uhygur human rights violations were a hoax.

      You’ll run into them on Lemmy eventually. The creators of Lemmy are Tankies and they run Lemmy.ml

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        2 days ago

        A tankie is anyone who supports violent left wing regimes. It requires support of violence and doesn’t require that the regime still exists.

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          1 day ago

          All revolutions are inherently violent, so again, this just circles back to supporting socialist states.

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              Revolution is the only way left-wing governments have historically been solidified. Bolivia tried the democratic process, and this failed, so now a potential revolution is brewing as clashes between the far-right and the primarily indigenous socialists are erupting. Allende tried the democratic process in Chile, and was coup’d for it.

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                Who cares? I’m not talking about how they get solidified. I’m talking about what they do when they have power. If someone supports violent left wing regimes, then they are a Tankie. If you don’t think that the regimes are violent beyond their revolutions, then that wouldn’t imply one way or another whether you are a Tankie.

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                  So we are back to square one: since all leftist states are the result of revolution, it is definitionally correct that “tankies” are those who support socialist states. All states are tools by which the ruling classes retain their dominance, in socialism this is the working class. Therefore, all states are inherently violent, and trying to label some as uniquely violent misses the entire point of the state, a monopoly on violence.