• darkcalling@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Interesting. Sounds like a meaningless definition. By this I’d say your average Fox News watching chud would fit the definition of tankie. You’d need only give them a tank, point them to some BLM protestors in a road, let them know they won’t be arrested and have immunity and they’d charge the fuck on down with that tank while screaming how all lives matter.

    Or for that matter as others have pointed out, a lot of cops.

    I’ve seen pictures of protests in Latin America, I forget which country, it had a right-wing government at the time, the protestors were leftist and the government rammed them with armored combat vehicles, not quite tanks but those must be tankies too.

    Sounds like a rather useless term to be honest. Not only that it would seem to paper over the fact lots more people have been run over to death by normal vehicles, jeeps, armored vehicles that aren’t tanks, etc than could possibly have been run over by tanks. So those people’s lives don’t matter, the use of vehicles to slaughter then don’t matter? Only if it fits a narrow criteria?

    Again useless definition.

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      By this I’d say your average Fox News watching chud would fit the definition of tankie. You’d need only give them a tank, point them to some BLM protestors in a road, let them know they won’t be arrested and have immunity and they’d charge the fuck on down with that tank while screaming how all lives matter.

      Considering Florida passed such a law giving people immunity for running over protestors on roads, and modern American trucks and SUVs are practically the size of tanks, this isn’t even an exaggeration of reality.