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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As someone who is not from the US, I’ve always seen ‘Tankie’ as liberal slang for a progressive that is a traitor to the empire. Not aligned with the idea that you can be both a progressive in america and a reactionary to the rest of the world, if not an outright nazi.