I’m very OOTL when it comes to a lot of the major divides in online communities because thankfully I’ve managed to avoid most of the arguing. I’ve noticed a lot of instances say “no tankies” as one of their first rules and figured this might be the only place I could get a real answer.
Was there something specific they did to piss off everyone? If I had to take a shot in the dark, are they just people who are really pro-military?
The extra weird thing is they generally support Putin and Russian government policies. It’s not exactly about ‘trying to achieve communism’ for them I think, they seem to reflexively defend and support all kinds of right-wing BS depending on who is doing it. To me tankies don’t seem to be motivated by a coherent political philosophy, I think they are almost like LaRouchites where they don’t really have an actual ideology and are more like a cult.