cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60070513
This is something I always get in arguments about, whenever I use the word tankie hexbear and grad users argue that its just a term for socialists.
I’ve always just used it to referr to authoritarian communists, i.e, people who unironically support modern russia, and/or oppose ukraine, and think nothing happened to the uyghurs.
People who defend modern day Russia, and the many terrible things they do.
Most notably blaming NATO, or “US imperialism” for the multiple countries being invaded.