Idk if Iโm a tankie. I know a lot of the stuff we heard about USSR was lies in the form of propaganda, so I assume a lot of what we hear about China and North Korea is the same.
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By the definition of a lot of lemmyverse libs you're 100% a tankie
According to what I've seen, even entertaining doubt at the validity of unsourced claims by Western media and state departments makes you a tankie.
If you cite the cia on Soviet caloric intake you're also a tankie
And if you cite the CIA on whether Stalin was an all-powerful dictator, you're a super-tankie
You would be correct. Very much recommend the Blowback podcast, it's a wild ride.
It's got H. Jon Benjamin! A little bit of fun between the horrors!
Filthy, STINKY, tankieses, we hates them!
Tankie:
Tanktop master
Doesn't it mean tank fetishist? Wait, what have y'all been talking about this whole time?
... Hungary had that shit coming. "Waaaahhh my pogroms, waaahhhh I can't keep marking the homes of Jews and Communists for extermination! Waaah!"
Tankie: the poster reading this
A tankie is someone who wears very small tanktops. The smaller and tighter the tanktop the tankiest the person.
Tankie is when someone says something true ~~that I dismiss by simply saying "Tankieeeeeee"~~
I get called a tankie imperialist for being anti war. Maybe we can work that in somehow?
Supported the USSR intervention in Hungary. Anything else is too nebulous and pointless. I've seen anarchists get call tankies for having Marxist economic views.
Die-hard Michael Dukakis supporters 
I didn't realize he was still alive. We should get him to do an ama
This is the correct answer
My girlfriend from Canada. She goes to a different school. You wouldn't know her. >.>
I just like tanks. I think they are neat. 
Anyone who rejects me
someone that is a dirty owl
The One True Tankie
someone who is a doo doo head and is bad and i don't like them please go away
a tankie is someone whose very ~~cool~~ sorry I mean bad and totally not cool or based
If the tank isn't from the Budapest region of Hungary, then it's not a tankie it's a Armed Anti-Fascist Intervention.
isn't it funnier if we don't
a tankie is someone who constantly complains about being called a tankie
But that's the thing, I've never been called one. I want to be prepared
everyone who isn't me
It's another name for fans of Thomas the Tank Engine
Used to be anyone left of the DNC, now it's anyone left of the pentagon
Tankie is when you main Reinhardt and roadhog