The UK has young offender institutes, which are not, legally speaking, prisons

So... What's the legal distinction? Because that just sounds like "Child Prison" with extra syllables

Tankies are people advocating for using force to suppress whatever they deem not acceptable.

So when Barack Obama claimed the right for the US President, to drone strike anyone deemed a terrorist, without trial, did that make him a Tankie?

Suck my girl dick

I like calling it the Obamalisk, personally

Nah, your comment still sucks shit, sarcasm or not

He doesn't have the eyebrow game going on

I think everyone should read the text of the 17 Point Agreement between Tibet and the PRC. It's incredibly lenient:

1. The central authorities will not alter the existing political system in Tibet. The central authorities will also not alter the established status, functions and powers of the Dalai Lama. Officials of various ranks shall continue to hold office.

1. The policy of freedom of religious belief as laid down in the common program shall be carried out. The religious beliefs, customs and practices of the Tibetan people shall be respected, and lama monasteries shall be protected. The central authorities will not influence or change the income of the monasteries.

1. The spoken and written language and education system of the Tibetan nationality shall be developed step by step in accordance with the actual conditions in Tibet.

1. In matters related to various reforms in Tibet, there will be no compulsion on the part of the central authorities. The local government of Tibet shall carry out reforms of its own accord, and, when the people raise demands for reform, they shall be settled through consultation with the leading personnel of Tibet

1. In so far as former pro-imperialist and pro-Kuomintang officials resolutely sever relations with imperialism and the Kuomintang and do not engage in sabotage or resistance, they may continue to hold office irrespective of their past

The "But her emails" crowd loves drone strikes on brown people though

I make it my goal in life to defy the white people can't cook stereotype.

The most delicious way to be a race traitor o7

Your beloved blue boy, Obama Bombed a hospital. And that's just one example

You can thank Rob Halford for popularizing the Gay Leather Daddy aesthetic among straight metalheads who didn't know any better.

Well you see, the Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism-Tankie Triad Thought States that Dark Matter is bourgeois, and that actually Galaxies are held together by the unwavering spirit of the Proletarian masses o7

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it’s becoming a necessity.

Fucking try me

Thought terminating cliche

I well it was still funny ¯_(ツ)_/¯

The modern notion of nation States, with clearly defined borders, and mechanisms of violence to enforce them, only arose around the 17th century.

Wolves don't build border walls, have customs checkpoints, or leave refugees to drown in the Mediterranean.

This isn't a "science meme", it's a falacious attempt to cloak reactionary rhetoric in the aesthetic garb of scientific rigor.

Oh look, my grandparents PC circa 2005

Relevant Tumblr post

I mean, people can be conventionally attractive, and also do awful things. Equating beauty with goodness and ugliness with evil is some Disney movie morality.

The word Tankie originates from 1950s British Communist circles. Specifically, it was used by British Communists to derisively describe their comrades who supported the 1956 invasion of Hungary by the Soviet Union.

Images of the Soviet invasion featured a lot of tanks, hence, "Tankie".

After that died down, the term didn't come back into use really, until the 2010s, when leftists on the internet started using it in a tongue-in-cheek sort of way. It was fun to bring back a stupid sounding, incredibly niche, British slang word.

At some point the word breached containment and started to be used by liberals, in a very cavilier sort of way. I've seen people use Tankie to describe anyone from Marxist-Leninists, to Marxists generally, to Leftists generally, weird right-wingers who converted to Russian Orthodoxy, pro-Palestine activists, mods of Lemmy instances someone doesn't like.

Shit, I've seen literal Anarchist get called Tankies.

Basically, it's a meaningless nothing word now, that's a bit like your boomer grandpa who still thinks it's the Red Scare, calling Joe Biden a Commie Pinko.

So don't worry about it too much.