• алсааас [she/they]@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
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    3 days ago

    That’s one of the few good definitions tbh

    However, most of the time liberals or so called social democrats/democratic socialists just say ‘tankie’ to everyone to the left of them

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      3 days ago

      To be honest, I only see this in posts like oop, where it’s clear that it’s astroturfed. Maybe it’s the circles that I am in, but every time I see the word used in a wild, it’s always used more or less correctly

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        2 days ago

        rly? From my perception it’s a rare case that it’s used coherently.
        And as I said more often than not, just as a “someone to the left of me” or “someone I don’t like”- type slur