I think they saw your comment and started to panic, knowing that if they called us tankies they would look owned because of yor prescient prediction. But then clarity cut through their panic and they came up with the most clever, nay brilliant epithet anyone has ever conjured:

Imperialismbear.net.

And it is we who have been owned

They walk away now, knowing we have been put in our place, smiling to themselves and thinking only "swish!"