• fort_burp@feddit.nl
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    13 hours ago

    As this is a cultural artifact I’m sure there are many ways of interpreting it, but I thought tankies were the people who think it’s right to suppress imperial-backed anti-democratic coups by any means necessary, and that it originated from the events of the Hungarian Revolution.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      12 hours ago

      Yep, I wrote about that more in-depth here. What I’m talking about is the modern usage of the term, especially here on Lemmy.