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Re:SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latenc... by lostboys67 on Friday November 18, 2016 @05:18AM (#12985707)
no in politics it means on the extreme end of a spectrum eg the KKK or the equivalent on the left who where calling for the workers of the world to help our Baathist sisters and bothers crush the uprising.
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Re:SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latenc... by inimino on Friday November 18, 2016 @06:27AM (#12985991)
It's both. It's a visual metaphor for the edge of something, such as the fringe of a curtain or scarf.

Something should be both extreme ideologically, and a relatively small minority to be "fringe".

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Re:SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latenc... by eli_gottlieb on Friday November 18, 2016 @10:09AM (#12987225)
Oh God, tankies. Can we just not talk about fucking tankies? They're disgusting.
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Re:SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latenc... by lostboys67 on Friday November 18, 2016 @10:16AM (#12987274)
I know :-) for those not who don't know what a "tankie" is its those small number Communist party members who supported the party line on Hungary.
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