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You know, you can be a communist without being a tankie.
And you can be a tankie without being a communist considering how many of them simp for Xi and China. Basically it is just pro-dictatorship with a very thin socialist façade.
The thing that sets off alarm bells in my head for "Tankie but not communist" is someone who uncritically upholds Russia and/or Iran. Take, for instance, one Caleb Maupin. A guy who calls himself a Marxist, but hangs out with noted fascist Alexander Dugin, and was recently outed as a creepy sex pest.
While true, that still falls in the "you" category, not the "we" category. The fact that there are plenty of people here doing that very thing sort of precludes us from being able to use the word "we" in this capacity.
Again, "you" maybe, "me" definitely, "we" becomes no longer true once some of the "other we's" do the thing.