And no, I'm not saying don't vote; I'm saying that there comes a point when voting isn't going to solve the problem
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Have you seen Hexbear? Honestly, saying they don't exist outside of a few edgy teens seems a bit myopic
Yes. Hexbears do not defend everything any communist government has ever done, and therefore do not meet the stated definition of tankies.
It's virtually impossible for anyone to be an "actual" tankie. The Soviet Union collapsed, so obviously it had to have flaws. The Sino-Soviet split happened, so clearly at least one of them had to have been in the wrong. Khrushchev criticized Stalin and Deng criticized Mao, so in both cases, either the criticism was correct and the target was flawed or the criticism was incorrect so the person doing the criticism must have been flawed. Even if you tried to, you couldn't knee-jerk support every communist leader.