• WereHacker@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    Is being against a kidnapping tankie? I’m a communist and people have called me tankie from time to time, but I still don’t know what it means and it seems to change definition everytime I ask.

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      4 days ago

      Tankie means authoritarian communist, although states that tankies support nowadays are nowhere near communism, but definitely are authoritarian.

      News flash - just because you’re you don’t like the US doesn’t mean you have to love the governments of Cuba, Russia, Venezuela etc.

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        4 days ago

        That is not news to me. But I am probably more lenient towards Cuba and Venezuela than most. Russia is just as bad as the USA these days. And Russia hunts socialists just as ferverently as the USA.