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I appreciate our community (leminal.space)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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Saw some posts about .ml today and thought I'd jump on the bandwagon lol

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[–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Yeah, I get called a tankie on the regular now, just because my user account is on .ml and I still don't actually know what it's supposed to mean. Apparently, I'm supposed to have political opinions on topics that I'm significantly more ignorant on than the people who call me that.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    The literal definition is someone who unquestionably supports anyone who waves a red flag. In practice, it means anyone who ever acknowledges a good thing done by a socialist state, or even refutes misinformation about them. If you say, "Cuba had a successful literacy program," there are people who will call you a tankie, even though it's just objectively true.

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