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  • MY_ANUS_IS_BLEEDING@lemm.ee
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    5 hours ago

    The iconic Tiananmen square “Tank man” photo, where one guy stands in front of a column of tanks on their way to slaughter pro-democracy protesters, briefly stopping them. Tankies are lunatics that wish for authoritarian communism and so unironically support the tanks running him over.

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      4 hours ago

      Not the origin of the word.

      This dates back to Hungarian revolution in 1956 and tanks being deployed by USSR.

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      3 hours ago

      Where the fuck do you libs get your misinformation from?

      That’s not where the term comes from.