People who believe capitalism has only been responsible for death and misery. They view “The West” as evil as it has propogated capitalism.
Rather than support alternative systems they support countries which oppose “The West”, to them such countries must be inherently “good”.
The name comes from the Soviet Unions invasion of Hungry with tanks. Tankies were people who argued the invasion was for Hungarians own good and a good thing because the Soviet Union was communist.
In modern times tankie is used to describe people who support Russia and China. These people will argue any action those countries take is justified and deny any negative action.
For example a tankie will argue the Russian invasion of Ukraine is justified and for Ukraines own good. A tankie denies the Russian army is deliberately raping, murdering, castrating and generally torturing Ukrainians. When confronted with statements by the Kremlin/Putin admiting to those things a tankie will dismiss it as western propoganda.
They are twisted up by hatred.
People who believe capitalism has only been responsible for death and misery. They view “The West” as evil as it has propogated capitalism.
Rather than support alternative systems they support countries which oppose “The West”, to them such countries must be inherently “good”.
The name comes from the Soviet Unions invasion of Hungry with tanks. Tankies were people who argued the invasion was for Hungarians own good and a good thing because the Soviet Union was communist.
In modern times tankie is used to describe people who support Russia and China. These people will argue any action those countries take is justified and deny any negative action.
For example a tankie will argue the Russian invasion of Ukraine is justified and for Ukraines own good. A tankie denies the Russian army is deliberately raping, murdering, castrating and generally torturing Ukrainians. When confronted with statements by the Kremlin/Putin admiting to those things a tankie will dismiss it as western propoganda.
The Lemmy developers are openly tankies.