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For me, a tankie is someone who plays apologist for fundamentally authoritarian regimes just because those regimes are painted red.
I would say there's a larger Chomskyite-style group of useful idiots who often get lumped in with tankies, but who are not, themselves, actual supporters of authoritarian-style socialism. They just eagerly eat up and regurgitate agitprop from actual tankies. Campist brainrot often runs rampant here, but they aren't actual tankies. I sometimes mock them with similar lines, though, under the old "Nine Nazis at a table" logic - when you're working for fascists, whether you agree, strictly speaking, with their ideology is of less importance.
Basically every leftist who doesn't believe that the path to socialism is by a vanguard party detached from actual democratic processes taking control of the entirety of society and enforcing its will on the populace is not an actual tankie.
They're not even painted red. There is nothing whatsoever communist about Russia and Putin would never claim that Russia was a communist country. But they oppose America and Europe, so that doesn't matter to Tankies.
All that matters is that the strongman is against the West.
I mean... they are painted red from the blood that they have spilled.