I’m pretty good at picking things up from context, so I’m gonna say a tankie is someone opposed to the deployment of tanks against a captive civilian population, the police having tanks, and tanks’ worth of tear gas being used on peaceful protestors?
(please don’t reply with earnest answers to my question, thx)
EDIT - some of y’all are failing to follow this last instruction smdh
During WWII, USSR armor crews, in their patriotic zeal to defeat Nazism, voluntarily took estrogen which was thought (and was later proven) to increase combat capabilities. These trans supersoldiers were the first to liberate Berlin. Thus we to this day call estrogen tank-E in their memory
Red Army tanks enter Berlin:
a tankie is an otherkin who identifies as a tank
The classic explanation (at least how it ends up being used)…
The people in the picture are
Row 1: Neslon Mandela, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Ho Chi Minh, Assata Shakur, Angela Davis
Row 2: Huey P. Newton, Thomas Sankara, Amílcar Cabral, W. E. B. Du Bois
Row 3: Kwame Ture, Paul Robeson, Leila Khaled, Malcolm X, Yuri Kochiyama, Fred Hampton
I knew most of these figures from before, but there were a few where I knew the name but not the face, or the face but not the name, or had never heard of them at all.
I’m passionate about water conservation and I’ll never hear the end of it
Me getting noticeably irate when someone offers me a bottle of water. (They don’t know I’m about to soapbox for the next four minutes.)
A water bottle is just a little tank! /s
An aquarium and terrarium enthusiast. I have 3 lizards so I’m a huge tankie.
Originally, tankie was a derogatory term for people who defended the deployment of tanks against civilians but the term has lost its meaning over time. Now, you’ll get called a tankie for merely saying that China isn’t the evil boogieman that fascists want us to believe it is. And the irony is that the libs calling us tankies are the ones who support Israel’s genocide of Palestine.
We need a bot for this
A redsails bot really is long overdue, time to look into how Lemmybots work
i heard on a podcast that police abolition is definitely tankie
which made me too wonder what the tanks were for
Totally Awesome Nice Kids
It’s the phonetic spelling of Tank-E. Which refers to the large tanks of estrogen we all have on our backs to breathe and sometimes turn everybody trans.
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Its what happens when you eat too many beans too fast, you become a “gas” tankie
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Its when you dump all your points into defense and endurance, you can “tankie” all the damage from the aggro.
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Its where all your poo and pee go when you don’t have city sewage and you flush the toilet, the “septic” tankie
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Its a cute way to describing a large container for holding water for livestock, a “stock” tankie.
It’s short for ‘TrueYankee’ and refers to members of /r/yankee who left in disgust for it’s insufficient patriotic bloodlust and broke off to form their own sub
a tankie is someone who constantly complains about being called a tankie
