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    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

    More generally, a tankie is someone who tends to support “militant opposition to capitalism”, and a more modern online variation, which means “something like ‘a self-proclaimed communist who indulges in conspiracy theories and whose rhetoric is largely performative.’” He was critical of both uses.[21] The Intercept journalist Roane Carey identified the “key element in the tankie mindset [as] the simple-minded assumption that only the United States can be imperialist, and thus any country that opposes the U.S. must be supported.”[22]