https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those > who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the > occurrence of the events thereof.

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[–] Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 28 points 3 months ago

Or like another interpretation could be "User is sick of being called a tankie, decides to be like 'yeah okay you got me, they are tankies just like all communists 🙄" the the other person thinks they got some le epic win.

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