What are tankies? What does sea-lioning mean?
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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Thank you all for your help, it is much appreciated!
Thank you for responding. I have boiled down the aggregate of answers as basically a tankie supports authoritarianism, or use of violence to deal with opposition. If this take is incorrect, someone please correct where I have it wrong. Btw, I have deliberately ignored references to left/right as meaningless in my quest for information.
Macron is using violence to deal with the opposition is France, he would be a tankie by your current definition.
Netanyahu is a dictator, Biden would be a tankie by your definition, as he supports Netanyahu.
Tankie is pejorative for "far-left", that's it, it's an insult.
Btw, I have deliberately ignored references to left/right as meaningless in my quest for information.
You can't do that, this is strictly about politics.