I keep hearing the term in political discourse, and rather than googling it, I’m asking the people who know better than Google.

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    A tankie is a fascist who wants everyone in the concentration camp to share a toothbrush. They’re typically rejects from their own community that crave revenge against people who want a truly better world, such as Barack Obama and Keir Starmer.

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      Please use /s tags, because its impossible to tell sarcasm otherwise. There are unfortunately a large number of ppl who believe your statement unironically.

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      Did you drop this? I think it was meant to go at the end of your post, but maybe it fell off

      </hyperbolic sarcasm>

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          Just figured you might want to make it clearer when you drop weapons grade sarcasm like “Obama and Kid Starver want a truly better world” That’s really funny, but it can often be hard to distinguish dead-pan sarcasm apart from bootlicking of imperialist ass-hats on the internet without proper closing tags.