The term Tankie has a clear definition that Cowbee likes to ignore:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those > who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the > occurrence of the events thereof.
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I got called a tankie by one of the worst people, formerly of world now feddit online, and when asked why they just said I don’t need to prove anything and called me and others more names.
It’s entirely meaningless which those who still worship Biden and Obama use because they think it’s the dirtiest word out there as everyone just laughs at those who earnestly use it as a slur