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[–] [email protected] -5 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

So you're a tankie in real life?

[–] Sunshine -1 points 3 hours ago

Tankies dont say slava ukranini!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Have you stopped beating your wife?

Ask a dozen people what “tankie” means and you’ll get a dozen conflicting answers. It’s a floating signifier for dismissing those to one’s political left. It’s a thought-terminating cliché rhetorical device.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

And none of those dozen answers will correspond to how any of them actually use the word