Tankie is used colloquially to mean "Someone with opinions I don't like who is left of the Clinton's". It is, at best, a thought terminating cliché. There's no reason to give it any credence or attention.
This. It’s basically short hand for anti-imperialist ML. Trying to claim it only means something that is only tangentally related to its use at this point is nerd shit.
Oh come on this is Reddit-tier prescriptionism. Language evolves. Now tankie means Marxist, or communist.
Tankie is used colloquially to mean "Someone with opinions I don't like who is left of the Clinton's". It is, at best, a thought terminating cliché. There's no reason to give it any credence or attention.
Personally, I like the reclamation/normalization of the term
This. It’s basically short hand for anti-imperialist ML. Trying to claim it only means something that is only tangentally related to its use at this point is nerd shit.