As far as I can make out, tankies are people who support communist governments even when they go way too far. So even though leaders like Jinping are essentially dictators, because they're ostensibly communist the tankies support them.

At least that's what I've seen from a few weeks on lemmy. I'm sure some tankies will be along to correct me soon.

[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, so the thing I still haven't seen happen except for everyone saying it happens to attack leftist instances.

Oh, and people attacking others for worshipping someone all in when they point to any particular point of a particular person (IE "In regards to X, Lenin said Y" "Oh HeRe We gO aNoThEr LeNiN wOrShiPpInG tAnKiE")

Of course, I'm sure there's SOMEBODY out here simping for China or whatever, but if that silly small percentage paints all leftists then by their own logic all capitalists should be branded as fascists - WAY more "right" people calling for fascism around here than China worshipperss and whatnot.