It was on here, on my first day. I went and asked “what even is a tankie?”

Then began a pretty meaningfully discussion, but it was less about the whole pro authoritarian cult of personality, and more about communism and human nature in general and the origin of the term Tankie, because I have never heard it outside a few “fuck tankie” comments on r/politics.

Now that I think about it, I’m not sure the people were actual tankies, unless they were avoiding the topic altogether.

I got alot of “It’s just something the liberals say and has lost meaning”

I have since visited a few random posts where the people were sort of glorifying these utter scum bags and I’m not sure of the logic in it.

I’ve come to the conclusion that these people think: humans suck, shitty people will take power regardless, so let’s try and manipulate it to at least get “smarter” authoritarian leader. And in the process they’ve become enamored with these people.

No idea