I’ve heard some people use that word so describe Lemmy users.

  • Fans of Stalin and Mao. In favor of conquest of other countries, extermination of minorities and undesirables, absolute power for the leader, and absolutely no nice things for anyone but the leader and his friends.

    Oddly enough, despite Stalin and Mao being even worse than the Nazis (who at least allowed you to have nice things if you weren’t on their extermination list) and doing the same wrongs that the Nazis did (conquest, genocide, dictatorship), tankies get very angry if you compare them to Nazis, and bizarrely insist that they are in fact the opposite of Nazis.