Language evolves and tankie has grown to encompass all far leftists that carry water for authoritarian organizations that seek to undermine the U.S. government.
“The term is now extended to describe people who endorse, defend, or deny the crimes committed by communist leaders such as
Vladimir Lenin,
[9][10]Joseph Stalin and
Mao Zedong. In recent times, the term has been used across the
political spectrumand in a geopolitical context to describe those who have a bias in favour of
anti-Western states,
authoritarian states or states with a socialist legacy, such as
Belarus,
Cuba,
China,
[4] Syria,
[11]North Korea, and
Russia. Additionally, the term pejoratively describes political activists who are said to have a tendency to be favorable towards non-socialist states and political groupings with no affiliation to socialism if they are
opposed to the United States, regardless of their ideology, such as
Iran or
Hezbollah.”
en.m.wikipedia.org
Given that Chomsky has ran cover for the Khmer Rouge, Serbia, Hesbollah, Hutus, and pushed state Russian propaganda such as invading Ukraine because they were “provoked by Russia” that describing Chomsky as a tankie is apt.
You tankies often over estimate your cognitive abilities, thus your blathering ridiculousness is often seen as some grand take down of the state when actuality you just sound pathetic and wrong to the average sane person, has to why you wield zero real world political power and only succeed in amplifying the far right who politically you are very much aligned.
