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Cake day: June 28th, 2023

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  • Short answer: folk who are so pro-Communist that they think the Tiananmen Square massacre was a good thing. The massacre in which the CCP bulldozed protestors with tanks.

    Hence, “tankie”

    Edit: apparently I’m wrong on the origin of the term, and it predates Tiananmen Square. See the reply below.

    I will add that given the current projection of power currently, China is a far more powerful authoritarian communiststate than Russia, so most tankie propaganda is China-centric these days.