Post 1611497 by jaybeanstalk@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #1603643 by kaniini@pleroma.site
       2018-11-30T10:20:34.952084Z
       
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       just remember, to a tankie, anything not tankie is “faux left”, and to a tankie, mutilating people’s genetalia with acid is an appropriate response to political disagreement
       
 (DIR) Post #1611497 by jaybeanstalk@mastodon.social
       2018-11-30T15:11:13Z
       
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       @kaniini I'm definitely out of the loop. Whats a "Tankie" is it like violent thomas the train again fans or something?
       
 (DIR) Post #1611498 by orekix@pl.smuglo.li
       2018-11-30T17:30:58.114792Z
       
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       @jaybeanstalk @kaniini a tankie is a Stalinist
       
 (DIR) Post #1611680 by kaniini@pleroma.site
       2018-11-30T17:26:48.603221Z
       
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       @jaybeanstalk authoritarian communist, the Chinese did nothing wrong when they ran over the Tiananmen square students with a tank (hince "tankie").
       
 (DIR) Post #1611681 by scarlett@catgirl.science
       2018-11-30T17:42:07.067801Z
       
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       @kaniini @jaybeanstalk it actually came from an internal conflict in the Communist Party of Great Britain where a hardline faction took the Kremlin line in agreeing with crushing the revolts in Hungary with tanks, and they got called tankies