Basically someone that apologizes for war criminals.
Its existence stems from people defending the massacre at Tiannenmen square.
These days tankies appear in many forms. On Lemmy most commonly as people such as OP apologizing for Joe Biden being complicit in Genocide.
It’s been pointed out to them that “tankie” predates the Tiananmen riots by a generation, but they persist with their pet definition, which literally no one shares.
Mostly they seem to use it to mean anyone who has in any way supported any genocide, including any apologia or denial. And they believe in a genocidal Holomodor & Uyghurmodor as much as in the German Nazi ones & the ongoing one in Gaza.
If lemmy.world weren’t defederated from Hexbear, I would ask them to confirm.
Edit to add: they seem to flip-flop on whether or not Uyghurs have been / are being genocided
Just making it all up as they go along.
Tankies is just the word they use for peoplw they don’t agree with
nah that word is usually russian bot
They’re synonymous at this point
Nah they have another thread to explain Russian bots
That last one is really something. I am so curious as to how they claim to this conclusion.
Edit: nevermind it is linkerbaan lmao
Linker–anyone to the left or right of me is a Tankie–baan
https://lemmy.world/search?creatorId=3867209&q=tankie
This has to be a bit, or the worms have replaced the brain.
Their bespoke definition is:
It’s been pointed out to them that “tankie” predates the Tiananmen riots by a generation, but they persist with their pet definition, which literally no one shares.
Mostly they seem to use it to mean anyone who has in any way supported any genocide, including any apologia or denial. And they believe in a genocidal Holomodor & Uyghurmodor as much as in the German Nazi ones & the ongoing one in Gaza.
If lemmy.world weren’t defederated from Hexbear, I would ask them to confirm.
Edit to add: they seem to flip-flop on whether or not Uyghurs have been / are being genocided
I think they might be making fun of how meaningless the word ‘tankie’ is by calling everything a tankie
brain empty no thoughts
They be throwing words around like a LLM.
A single attempt of trying to comprehend what decent lemmys say already broke their brain.