That’s just what you want it to mean so you can distance yourselves from the term entirely.

Wikipedia has a pretty clear cut definition, and it’s the one the majority of people (who aren’t one themselves anyways) use

That was almost 70 years ago, it’s irrelevant, words change their meaning all the time. It’s how human language works.

The current widely accepted definition is the one defined by the previously linked Wikipedia article. Oh sorry, do you guys call it “NATOpedia” now? Or was it “Libopedia”?

There it is again. The classic “everything is authoritarian so the word doesn’t mean anything” routine. It’s funny how that only shows up when someone calls tankies authoritarian. Communism isn’t bad because some western pundit said so, it’s bad when it turns into an excuse to justify control.

The idea of giving power to the people is great, but pretending censorship and repression are just “necessary tactics” ruins it. If the system can’t survive without silencing people, it’s not socialism anymore, it’s just another hierarchy wearing red paint.

No, the government of the southern half of Korea, the Republic of Korea, is not an “occupier.” The democratically elected state was the People’s Republic of Korea (PRK), which spanned the entire peninsula before the US Empire came in, declared it illegal, and split the country in two, against the will of Koreans, and installed the dictator Rhee Syngman in place.

Cool, that happened decades ago though, who is currently running the SK government?

Again, “tankie” in practice is just a pejorative for communists, akin to “pinko” or “commie.”

No not really, I’m sure there are people around who throw the term around loosely, but the majority associate it with authoritarian communists

The fact that you’re getting very basic communist stances on Korea completely wrong here betrays any sense of legitimacy you have on the subject.

There was just a meme by one of you the other day where you declared the SK government as being illegitimate along with the government of Taiwan and Israel

If you say the Government of SK is illegitimate then it’s an occupier is it not?

Ha ha yeah, the good ol “authoritarianism exists everywhere!” Argument

You know well and good when someone says a government is authoritarian they mean things like speech being controlled and unable to criticize the government, being heavily restricted in your freedom of movement, being heavily restricted in the information you’re allowed to access or possess

that is occupying Korea

Yes exactly, the government of SK is called an occupier by tankies, despite being democratically elected by the people of SK

Tankies do not automatically communists, that’s just a tactic you guys use to conflate the term

Incorrect, those are incredibly biased sources.

Tankies are authoritarian communists. There’s more than one flavor of communists. I do love how you guys try to make it seem like you’re the only kind of communists or the “true leftists” out there

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.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

Asking on this instance though, the Basecamp for them essentially, you’re going to get a lot of answers ranging from “it’s a meaningless term” to “Just something liberals slap on everything anti Communist!”