What are tankies? What does sea-lioning mean?locked

No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 251 points – 12 months ago

I've run across these terms several times, but without enough context to figure out what they mean. Could someone help me out, please?

ETA All of you are amazing! A huge thank you to everyone who responded, and an extra thank you to those who have provided links or explanations to further and/or related information. I am learning so much by reading all of these comments!

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Someone once described Tankies (at least the ones that are behind the Lemmy codebase) as "conservative communists who think the Tiananmen Square Massacre was a hoax" and uh, I just find that fitting.

I've never seen anyone call it a hoax.

you lucky bastard!

I'm lucky for not seeing something that doesn't happen?

I'll just leave this here:

https://streamable.com/unjnw9

Well, except for the whole communism thing. Seeing as communism and autocracy are diametrically opposed as ideologies.