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 guarantee you they 100% understand. They simply don’t care and are just being dishonest. They believe the ends justify the means.
almost like words don’t mean anything to them…that kinda reminds me of this other group of extremists that don’t care what words mean! almost like they’ve got something in common or something…
tankie doesn’t mean “communist”, it means red fascist.
and cowbee thinks, by his own admission, that’s the same thing.