I'm pretty good at picking things up from context, so I'm gonna say a tankie is someone opposed to the deployment of tanks against a captive civilian population, the police having tanks, and tanks' worth of tear gas being used on peaceful protestors?
(please don't reply with earnest answers to my question, thx)
EDIT - some of y'all are failing to follow this last instruction smdh
I'm passionate about water conservation and I'll never hear the end of it
Me getting noticeably irate when someone offers me a bottle of water. (They don't know I'm about to soapbox for the next four minutes.)
A water bottle is just a little tank! /s