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
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