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Remember kids, Tankies wants to undermine democracy - same as facists.

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[โ€“] Vespair@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tankie has been a thing for over half a century.

Disingenuous in regards to their point.

"Cuckold" had been in use for a long time before it's cultural adoption in 2015 too. They weren't disputing the appropriate use the term, they were clearly commenting on the shift from appropriately-applied usage to the saturation within the cultural lexicon as a buzzword. Why is this thread full of disingenuous asides and non-sequiturs?

[โ€“] NIB@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well i and other people that i know were using the term for at least 10 years. I even had a friend break up partly because the other person was a tankie. Maybe the term was less common in other countries.

Also tankie definition hasnt changed nor has been appropriated as a general slur. It has always meant communist who supports authoritarian policies.