Now watch all the tankies praise him as a honorary socialist

I am trying to get someone to explain what tankie means. People call me tankie from time to time, but I have no love for the iranian goverment.

A “tankie” is just anyone to the left of you

Not even a little bit, but typical tankie rhetoric is to call anyone who isn’t at least as far to the left as them (read: approaching infinity) a fascist, so I’m not surprised to hear this from an .ml account