See, I'm no tankie, I'm a radical anarcho communist according to this chart
Link if you want to try it yourself: https://www.politicalcompass.org/test
It's probably the source of a lot of zoomer misconceptions about the so called tankies, now that I think about.
Imagine how must it much fuck up your mental model of the world and of ideology to spend any extended amount of time in r/PoliticalCompassMemes where the self-proclaimed Nazis are all the way at the top and slightly to the left of center. Imagine interacting with people who actually scored in the top left and seeing them call themselves “auth-left” and talking about how that‘s where historical ML’s existed.