If you wanna go pick a fight. Keep the instance name out of your damn mouth. Fight your own battles.
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The term tankie refers to defenders of the use of tanks during the soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956 to quell the anti-Soviet revolution taking place.
It's a pejorative term aimed at authoritarian Communists and pro-marxist-leninists by anti-authoritarian leftists.
That was my initial understanding (though, not so precise), but I've seen it disputed and I don't like to be vague with language if I can help it. It just sounds like a cute way to say fascist.