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A person who is professionally involved in spreading propaganda while working for a think tank that is funded by weapons manufacturers who literally build tanks.
I just landed a sweet job at the Australia Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) as a junior Think Tankie!
by High Level Wumao October 12, 2020
Get the Think Tankie mug.a festival of sorts where noble men(and women) gather and drink excessive amounts of alcohol or beer, or both
-hey man you ready for the tankfest at daves?
yeah man we are going to get fucking plastered!
-dude we need or organize a tankfest this weekend..
yeah sounds good where should we host such an activity?
-(on phone) dude get to so and so's house its a goddamn tankfest!
-man last nights tankfest was fucking bonkers. i think i blew chunks like 6 times.
yeah man we are going to get fucking plastered!
-dude we need or organize a tankfest this weekend..
yeah sounds good where should we host such an activity?
-(on phone) dude get to so and so's house its a goddamn tankfest!
-man last nights tankfest was fucking bonkers. i think i blew chunks like 6 times.
by dahmerrr January 19, 2010
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by sugacherries October 16, 2020
Get the Tannies mug.A hardline Stalinist. A tankie is a member of a communist group or a "fellow traveller" (sympathiser) who believes fully in the political system of the Soviet Union and defends/defended the actions of the Soviet Union and other accredited states (China, Serbia, etc.) to the hilt, even in cases where other communists criticise their policies or actions. For instance, such a person favours overseas interventions by Soviet-style states, defends these regimes when they engage in human rights violations, and wishes to establish a similar system in other countries such as Britain and America.
The term is used to distinguish the rare individuals with these kinds of beliefs from communists more broadly (including Communist Party members), whose adherence to Soviet doctrine and attachment to existing "socialist" states is somewhat weaker.
It is always more-or-less abusive in the sense that those termed tankies do not use the term themselves, but it doesn't have any particular bite (unlike, say, Trot).
The term derives from the fact that the divisions within the communist movement first arose when the Soviet Union sent tanks into communist Hungary in 1956, to crush an attempt to establish an alternative version of communism which was not embraced by the Russians. Most communists outside the eastern bloc opposed this action and criticised the Soviet Union. The "tankies" were those who said "send the tanks in".
The epithet has stuck because tankies also supported "sending the tanks in" in cases such as Czechoslovakia 1968, Afghanistan 1979, Bosnia and Kosovo/a (in the case of the Serbian state), and so on (whereas the rest of the communist movement has gravitated towards anti-militarism).
The term is used to distinguish the rare individuals with these kinds of beliefs from communists more broadly (including Communist Party members), whose adherence to Soviet doctrine and attachment to existing "socialist" states is somewhat weaker.
It is always more-or-less abusive in the sense that those termed tankies do not use the term themselves, but it doesn't have any particular bite (unlike, say, Trot).
The term derives from the fact that the divisions within the communist movement first arose when the Soviet Union sent tanks into communist Hungary in 1956, to crush an attempt to establish an alternative version of communism which was not embraced by the Russians. Most communists outside the eastern bloc opposed this action and criticised the Soviet Union. The "tankies" were those who said "send the tanks in".
The epithet has stuck because tankies also supported "sending the tanks in" in cases such as Czechoslovakia 1968, Afghanistan 1979, Bosnia and Kosovo/a (in the case of the Serbian state), and so on (whereas the rest of the communist movement has gravitated towards anti-militarism).
I wouldn't be surprised if the tankies even defend Saddam Hussein.
Some of the people round George W Bush used to be left-wing, but they haven't really changed their views much; they were mostly tankies.
Some of the people round George W Bush used to be left-wing, but they haven't really changed their views much; they were mostly tankies.
by Andy April 20, 2004
Get the tankie mug.a person who is professionally involved in fear mongering, bigotry and the spreading of fake news and propaganda while working for organizations similar to ASPI that are funded by weapon manufactures who literally manufacture tanks.
did you see that guy spreading that pseudo scientific fake news paper on twitter? he literally works for ASPI. LoL such a Think Tankie.
by mitosan September 28, 2020
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