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[–] MY_ANUS_IS_BLEEDING@lemm.ee 8 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

The iconic Tiananmen square "Tank man" photo, where one guy stands in front of a column of tanks on their way to slaughter pro-democracy protesters, briefly stopping them. Tankies are lunatics that wish for authoritarian communism and so unironically support the tanks running him over.

[–] el_bhm@lemm.ee 11 points 1 hour ago

Not the origin of the word.

This dates back to Hungarian revolution in 1956 and tanks being deployed by USSR.

[–] masquenox@lemmy.world 0 points 53 minutes ago

Where the fuck do you libs get your misinformation from?

That's not where the term comes from.