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What does tankie really mean at this point?
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It's supposed to mean "authoritarian leftist" (the concept of authoritarianism as a distinct political trait / goal is a key part of horse-shit theory), but the assholes who say that also insist that "true leftism" is inherently libertarian and cannot be authoritarian, and so actually tankies are just red-fash masquerading as leftists -- they hate to even acknowledge a family resemblance.
So these people based their understanding on the political compass (which is trash), but then also decided that their own frame of understanding was shitty and broken because by having an authoritarian-left axis at all, it didn't condemn tankies enough.