A point of personal pride is after an entire life lived online, I still have no clue what a 'tankie' is. It helps that people who use the word don't necessarily seem to have a clear conception of the meaning either.
It’s a term from the 60s for Kruschevites, ironically enough it was probably invented by Maoists, who now get it thrown at them daily because it’s kinda morphed into “any Marx-Leninist, or simply any person on the left a liberal or anarchist disagrees with.”
The amount of times I've seen anarchists being called tankies since liberals learned the word and decided it meant "left of the democrats" is genuinely impressive. Also very funny.
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saying that Democrat leadership could be doing better.