People who are politically aligned with Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin, etc.

They claim there are no genocides in China, that Ukraine was invaded because Russia had to fight off Nazis, that the best democracy on earth is North Korea (which they sometimes don't even call North Korea because they believe South Korea belongs to North Korea which would just make it one Korea), and that the USA is (and has always been) an evil empire and that NATO states are all dictatorship puppet states.

They oppose Trans Rights, Homosexuality, bodily autonomy, and most human liberties, and in fact they will outright tell you that Liberals (not any individual party but the actual definition of the word) are their enemies.

They have a strong presence on the fediverse because the Lemmy platform is developed by them and any donations to the work goes towards paying the Tankie lead developers and funding their instances: Lemmy_ml, Hexbear_net, Lemmygrad_ml

You can read the megathread documenting their extremism over here:

https://feddit.online/post/593416

On the comm: !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

Though, it could probably use some updates.

Tankie's are purportedly communist but tools of Russia and China. Both countries that would send them into the gulag or re-education for talking that same shit in their countries.

I remember when tankie just meant communist.